Dyson Airstrait
If my apartment catches fire, I’m grabbing the dog, my iPad Pro, our little emergency bag with cash and paperwork, and … my Dyson Airstrait.
(Anth, you’re on your own, man).
This hair gadget is ridiculously expensive and still somehow the best money my husband has ever spent (it was a gift). My hair is fine and extremely frizz-prone. It’s curly/wavy but I prefer to wear it straight, which means I spent my teen years through my 30s getting really good at that whole round brush/hair dryer routine, and mostly made peace with the fact that no matter how good I got, on humid days, it was going to fluff up.
And that even though I try to take really good care of my hair and do the heat protectant thing, get regular trims, and give it break from heat styling, it still was always just a little big damaged.
(Don’t even get me started on the period of my life that I was in love with the Revlon heat styler and it literally fried and broke off my hair in clumps … proceed with caution on that thing, ladies!)
I was a little skeptical on the Dyson Airstrait because YouTube reviews were mixed, and I have another Dyson hair gadget, the Dyson AirWrap which I do like, but not love. It just doesn’t provide enough tension to get my frizzy hair truly shiny and smooth.
But the Airstrait?! This little thing makes my hair straight, shiny and soft, and it causes no heat damage. My hair has never looked healthier or softer. I can go from wet to smooth/dry in about 12 minutes (my hair is medium-long and there’s a lot of it).
And, I can’t explain it, but something about this makes my hair more resistant to frizzing up, even in swampy weather. I don’t know if it closes the cuticle more fully or what, but sometimes when I do switch back to the brush/blow-dryer routine if I’m wanting a little bounce, it’ll look great for 20 minutes, but turn a little frizzy before my next wash. I never get that with the Dyson Airstrait! It stays straighter and smoother until I wash it again.
Pro-tip: I’ve noticed that the people on YouTube who are “meh” on this are trying to dry really big chunks of hair, and going fast. I’ve had this thing for a few years and have played around with a few techniques. The smaller the chunk of hair (smaller than say, sectioning off for a blow dry), and the slower you go, the better the results will be. I know it feels like it takes longer this way, but like I said … 12 minutes to do my whole hair, and my hair’s about halfway down my back.
