is the dyson air wrap right for me?

[Anonymous]

Get a 2 inch round brush and buy a Dyson hairdryer (not the airwrap). Also make sure you’re spraying your hair with a good leave-in conditioner after you shower. I personally love “It’s a 10 - Miracle Leave in Product.” Maybe follow that up with some Moroccan oil to eliminate any residual frizz.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a 2 inch round brush and buy a Dyson hairdryer (not the airwrap). Also make sure you’re spraying your hair with a good leave-in conditioner after you shower. I personally love “It’s a 10 - Miracle Leave in Product.” Maybe follow that up with some Moroccan oil to eliminate any residual frizz.

And if you want body, I’d recommend using Aveda volumizing shampoo and their Phemolient styling foam. They also have a Thickening Tonic I like. Bottom line- I don’t think you need a specific tool beyond a round hairbrush, a hair dryer, and good hair product. You don’t even need the Dyson hairdryer - I do love mine because it’s powerful and quick (unlike my Revlon 1875 watt I had for 20 years until it died). And you don’t need all the attachments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a 2 inch round brush and buy a Dyson hairdryer (not the airwrap). Also make sure you’re spraying your hair with a good leave-in conditioner after you shower. I personally love “It’s a 10 - Miracle Leave in Product.” Maybe follow that up with some Moroccan oil to eliminate any residual frizz.

OP here and while I appreciate these tips and hope they help someone, I can tell you that after 35 years of trying to do a blow out on my own hair with a round brush and blow dryer (and various products including “it’s a 10” which I personally don’t like, and keratase finishing oil, and many others I’ve tried), my hair still looks like frizzy crap. This is precisely why I am exploring the dyson air wrap (and now the shark flex, too).

I can achieve a better blow dry with the revlon brush/dryer than a round brush and dryer (I have a t3), but it is damaging my colored, thinning hair, and I also feel that my hair has become accustomed to it and I can’t get as smooth and straight a blow dryer from it as I once did.

I may try the shark flex - it is $210 on the shark website.

[Anonymous]

Not OP, but I was just pondering this question the other day and thinking that I wish there was a rent-to-own type program for the Dyson. I would be willing to splurge if I thought it was going to work, but I can't imagine spending the money and not being thrilled with it. I also have the Revlon brush and I hate that thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get a 2 inch round brush and buy a Dyson hairdryer (not the airwrap). Also make sure you’re spraying your hair with a good leave-in conditioner after you shower. I personally love “It’s a 10 - Miracle Leave in Product.” Maybe follow that up with some Moroccan oil to eliminate any residual frizz.

OP here and while I appreciate these tips and hope they help someone, I can tell you that after 35 years of trying to do a blow out on my own hair with a round brush and blow dryer (and various products including “it’s a 10” which I personally don’t like, and keratase finishing oil, and many others I’ve tried), my hair still looks like frizzy crap. This is precisely why I am exploring the dyson air wrap (and now the shark flex, too).

I can achieve a better blow dry with the revlon brush/dryer than a round brush and dryer (I have a t3), but it is damaging my colored, thinning hair, and I also feel that my hair has become accustomed to it and I can’t get as smooth and straight a blow dryer from it as I once did.

I may try the shark flex - it is $210 on the shark website.

Got it. Then I would definitely give this cheaper version a try. I’m also assuming you don’t have any vitamin deficiencies and have already been on HRT (if you’ve needed it). These can affect your hair too. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

i've been on a journey with velcro rollers-- made a big difference in my blow outs

and now a curling iron and some duck clips-- this has been a game changer

i watch a lot of tiktoks on how to curl and set

i have a sleeptie to maintain it over night

been very helpful! but am also dyson air wrap curious.

[Anonymous]

Get the Airstrait

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get a 2 inch round brush and buy a Dyson hairdryer (not the airwrap). Also make sure you’re spraying your hair with a good leave-in conditioner after you shower. I personally love “It’s a 10 - Miracle Leave in Product.” Maybe follow that up with some Moroccan oil to eliminate any residual frizz.

OP here and while I appreciate these tips and hope they help someone, I can tell you that after 35 years of trying to do a blow out on my own hair with a round brush and blow dryer (and various products including “it’s a 10” which I personally don’t like, and keratase finishing oil, and many others I’ve tried), my hair still looks like frizzy crap. This is precisely why I am exploring the dyson air wrap (and now the shark flex, too).

I can achieve a better blow dry with the revlon brush/dryer than a round brush and dryer (I have a t3), but it is damaging my colored, thinning hair, and I also feel that my hair has become accustomed to it and I can’t get as smooth and straight a blow dryer from it as I once did.

I may try the shark flex - it is $210 on the shark website.

I also bought and returned the air wrap. IMO it works best on dry hair.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get a 2 inch round brush and buy a Dyson hairdryer (not the airwrap). Also make sure you’re spraying your hair with a good leave-in conditioner after you shower. I personally love “It’s a 10 - Miracle Leave in Product.” Maybe follow that up with some Moroccan oil to eliminate any residual frizz.

OP here and while I appreciate these tips and hope they help someone, I can tell you that after 35 years of trying to do a blow out on my own hair with a round brush and blow dryer (and various products including “it’s a 10” which I personally don’t like, and keratase finishing oil, and many others I’ve tried), my hair still looks like frizzy crap. This is precisely why I am exploring the dyson air wrap (and now the shark flex, too).

I can achieve a better blow dry with the revlon brush/dryer than a round brush and dryer (I have a t3), but it is damaging my colored, thinning hair, and I also feel that my hair has become accustomed to it and I can’t get as smooth and straight a blow dryer from it as I once did.

I may try the shark flex - it is $210 on the shark website.

OP - different PP here (with the Dyson and a regular dryer); just a note: my mom had the revlon brush and it ended up really drying her hair and she had to cut it short. Are you rough drying before using it? I’m pretty sure all of these are intended to be used in mostly dry hair. Just a heads up in case your hair gets severely damaged. FWIW, I bought her an air wrap after that and she uses it regularly (only for straightening) and loves it. Her hair is coarser than mine and works well, but it doesn’t give a super sleek blow out - more a straight hair with volume. Sounds like it might be worth a shot for you.

[Anonymous]

My daughter has the hair dryer. It's okay; better than a normal one but not THAT much better

the airwrap is awesome

[Anonymous]

The Shark is supposed to be a much better value than the Air Wrap (Wirecutter and The Mom Edit, I think both came to that conclusion).

I have the Air Wrap. My hair is mostly straight, very fine, and fairly thick, so my experience will be a bit different. I only bother to dry my hair if it is really cold outside, or I'm going somewhere nice. I used to use a regular dryer (Rusk) and the Revlon One-Step. And I am incompetent with a round brush (I will get it stuck in my hair).

I love how quiet it is. I wrap my hair in an Aquis towel for a while after I get out the shower. Comb, put in some sort of product to protect my hair (would love recs on this), rough dry upside down with the blower attachment, switch to the brush attachment and get it mostly dry. Sometimes I just leave it at that. Faster and looks just as good or not better than Rusk + Revlon. If I'm feeling fancier, I'll use one of the barrels to try to give my roots some lift, give my hair some curl, etc. I will usually run the smoothing / anti frizz thing over my hair at the end. It does somehow tame the flyaways.

Big bonus for this perimenopausal woman: I am not nearly as sweaty by the time my hair is dry. Not sure if that is because the air is more concentrated, not as hot, or I'm not doing it for as long.

[Anonymous]

You need the Airstrait most likely. You could try the Conanda 2x tho

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get a 2 inch round brush and buy a Dyson hairdryer (not the airwrap). Also make sure you’re spraying your hair with a good leave-in conditioner after you shower. I personally love “It’s a 10 - Miracle Leave in Product.” Maybe follow that up with some Moroccan oil to eliminate any residual frizz.

It's a 10 is horrible for most hair types.

[Anonymous]

Get the Shark flex. If you’re worried about hair damage, just use the shark on medium heat instead of high heat. Same as the Dyson basically, except the blowdry capability is stronger. The curl capability on high heat is even stronger than the Dyson. I have really thick hair and the Dyson airwrap takes 15 mins to dry my hair to 80% whereas the flex takes 8 mins. Even on high heat, the shark flex doesn’t seem to damage my hair.

[Anonymous]

I love the Dyson air wrap. I have lots of fine long hair.

When I use it, I either a) rough dry it, then use the big barrels for lots of body and some curl or b) use the straightening brush, then spray the bottom with water and spend 5 minutes using the barrels to get some curl and movement at the bottom of my hair. I like that, unless I get really sweaty, it lasts through the next two days or so.