Shark FlexStyle Drying & Styling System Overview: A Cheaper Dyson Various

Dyson is the high-end hair care model everybody aspires to, however what if I informed you it isn’t essential to spend an arm and a leg to get Dyson-like high quality out of your hair instruments? Shark, lengthy a Dyson vacuum competitor, forayed into the world of hair lately with its HyperAir dryer, rivaling the look and efficiency of Dyson’s Supersonic. Its newest FlexStyle hair system goals to dethrone the Dyson Airwrap.

This can be a curling iron, blow-dryer, and blow-dry brush in a single, and at $270, you are saving roughly $329 over the Airwrap. You’ll be able to select three attachments (don’t be concerned, the 2 curlers rely as one). However there are additionally bundles for curly and coily hair that embrace the barrels, a diffuser, a concentrator, and an oval brush, and one for straight and wavy hair that swaps out the diffuser for a paddle brush. When you understand you want one other attachment later, you will get any of them individually. It would not work fairly in addition to the Airwrap in some methods, but it surely comes fairly darn shut.

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The Dyson Airwrap skyrocketed in recognition as a result of it was in contrast to some other hair device we would seen earlier than with its auto-wrapping curlers that used much less warmth than conventional curling irons (inflicting much less harm to hair). The curling wands are the large draw, however the Airwrap has completely different brush attachments for blowouts and evenly drying hair too.

The FlexStyle employs the identical Coanda impact Dyson makes use of. This creates a vortex of air inside its 1.25-inch curling barrel that pulls hair that wraps round it naturally for curls. Just like the Dyson, Shark makes use of much less warmth as a result of it would not want a scorching scorching barrel to drive hair right into a form. Warmth on hair day-after-day and even a number of instances per week will end in hair harm—this may not less than minimize down a few of that.

In my checks with the FlexStyle, my hair routinely wrapped across the barrel practically in addition to on the Airwrap, however I did must coerce my hair right here and there. The FlexStyle consists of two barrels, one for curling towards the left and one for curling towards the best. That is just like the primary model of the Airwrap, however the second version ditched them for a singular barrel that may swap instructions by twisting a lever on the prime. One barrel makes the hair-styling course of simpler, however this alone is not well worth the Airwrap’s excessive worth. 

Exterior of price, I want the FlexStyle over the Airwrap for one cause: It really works rather well as a hair dryer too. I’ve curly hair, and I do not straighten it day-after-day. I would like a robust hair dryer with a diffuser. The Airwrap would not have that. Its drying attachment is not meant to maintain fragile curls frizz-free. So the Airwrap is a device I can solely use once I need to straighten and then curl my hair; I would must spend extra to get dryer. 

Shark’s HyperAir dryer, with its spectacular adjustable diffuser, is already one in every of my favourite hair dryers. You get the identical diffuser with the FlexStyle, simply barely smaller. (You’ll be able to shorten the diffuser prongs for shorter hair and dry your ends, or lengthen them for longer hair and attain your roots.) When curling or brushing, you will use the deal with straight up and down. When drying, the deal with swivels into the form of the quantity seven, just like the hair dryers and love. There are 4 warmth settings and three airflow settings, plus a chilly shot button.