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Dyson Pure Humidify+Cool Review: The Best Investment I’ve Made


It might be new to some people, but working from home has been my personal “normal” for the past three years as a freelance writer and editor. I like to think that I’ve become something of an expert at creating a comfortable home office—but I’m at a bit of an advantage. I’m lucky enough to have an entire room in my house as a dedicated workspace, so I’m always on the hunt for little (or big) additions to make my home office feel all the more cozy—whether it’s a new lamp, some art to go up on the walls, or a new plant baby. And now that we’re stuck working from home for the foreseeable future, I’ve slowly been making additions to my home office to make it the most productive environment for me, which is why Dyson’s new Pure Humidify+Cool has become a total necessity.

I know, I know. How can an $800 machine be a necessity? I’m already a huge Dyson fan—the company’s vacuums actually make me excited to clean, and I’ve recommended the Airwrap to everyone I know—so I’m inclined to believe that I’ll love every product they launch. For me, it has everything to do with improving my overall quality of life while I’m working at home, which will continue to be the case even after the coronavirus passes.

Kristin Corpuz

To be honest, I never thought much about air quality in my home before I tried out the Dyson Pure Humidify+Cool. Of course, I’m big on wearing sunscreen indoors and am hyper-conscious of the fact that Los Angeles (where I live) doesn’t have the best outdoor air quality—not to mention, it is much too dry for someone with my skin type. But I thought that running a small humidifier on my desk and shutting off our central A/C would be sufficient enough to maintain decent air quality at home, and wow, was I wrong.

The new Dyson machine has seriously changed the way I think about the air in my space. Not only does it purify a room by filtering out particles like allergens, bacteria, pollen, and formaldehyde, but it also blows out cool air (which is perfect for those hot L.A. summers). While it’s filtering and blowing air, it also works as a humidifier to keep your space comfortably moist—a godsend if you have dry skin and hair like me. And the best part is that everything is customizable. I can turn it to just one of the settings (or any combination of the three) and can even adjust how each function works; whether I want more or less humidity, or if I want the fan to feel more like a breeze than a blast of cool air. And if I want to monitor what the air quality is like in my space, all I have to do is check the Dyson Link app to read stats picked up by sensors on the machine.

An issue that I’ve always had with room humidifiers is that I forget to clean them out. The water scales inside, and bacteria collect in the still water—which then gets pumped out into the air when I turn the machine back on. Of course, Dyson thought of everything and built in a one-touch deep-clean cycle that does all the cleaning for you. It keeps my mind at ease knowing that I’m using an appliance that really works to keep my home’s air quality as pure as possible, and it sure doesn’t hurt that it’s one less thing to clean in my house right now.



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Dyson Airwrap Hair Styler Review: Is It Worth the $500?


Two years ago, if someone said I needed a $400 hair-dryer, I’d probably ask if it’d declog my shower drain and do my laundry too. But that was until Dyson came along in April 2016 with its honest-to-god revolutionary Supersonic hair-dryer. It’s one of the few truly expensive tools I’ll admit is worth every penny. Thanks to its powerful motor, my straight, fine hair dries perfectly in pretty much 10 minutes flat.

Since then, the brand has released a few versions of the dryer—some in different colors, a pro version with longer cords—but it’s left everyone hooked on its magic wondering what’s next outside of vacuums and humidifiers. Now we’ve finally got an answer, and that would be the Dyson Airwrap, a dryer with multiple attachment tools that let you style your hair as it dries.

Sound familiar? The concept basically marries the idea behind thermal blowout brushes (like this) and self-curling irons like Beachwaver. But where it differs from the latter is that it uses entirely air—not extreme heat—to set curls.

The Airwrap comes in three kits: one for fine hair ($499.99), one for coarse hair ($499.99), and one that contains the attachments for both kits ($549.99). While it’s still a splurge, all the sets are currently on sale as part of Sephora’s Beauty Insider Sale. Depending on what Sephora Rewards tier you are, you can snag one for up to 20% off (almost $100!).

Each set features a mini, more travel-friendly version of the Dyson dryer. The top of the dryer then detaches to add the styling pieces: two 1.2-inch barrels (for fine and coarse hair), two 1.6-inch barrels and a firm brush for coarse hair, and a soft and round brush for fine hair. Like the OG, all the attachments are heavy-duty and lock solidly in place.

The various attachment pieces for the Dyson Airwrap

The brush attachment is fairly intuitive to use. And the whole thing is way lighter than it looks. You just drag a small section from root to tip on top, and then again from underneath, lifting your hair slightly at the root to give a volume boost. The trick is to get your hair about 80 percent dry with the brush (or the dryer if your hair is already fairly straight) before moving on to the curler attachments.

Navigating the curling wands is a little trickier and definitely takes some getting used to. The barrel sucks your hair in (much like a vacuum) and wraps itself around the barrel. Because of the way the technology works, there are two different barrels for each side of your head—not super ideal, but it still takes up less space than both a hair-dryer and a curling wand. They’ve also got little arrows to show you which direction it’ll curl, based on how you look at it in the mirror (I made the mistake of looking down instead of in the mirror; blame on my Beachwaver obsession).



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Dyson Supersonic Review – Why It's the Best Hair Dryer Ever


Before we get down to the business of reviewing this (spoiler) wonder of a hair dryer, it should be established that I have very thick, frizz-prone hair. As a teen, I identified deeply with J.K. Rowling’s characterization of Hermione Granger’s hair as “bushy,” and as an adult I try to combat it, but if I’m being honest that description still tracks. Its texture inexplicably changed a lot throughout my twenties: evolving from curly to wavy to frizzy (whenever humidity levels creep above 40 percent) and back to wavy (only in winter). What’s remained constant is that my haircut appointments consistently end late, and every new hairstylist, without fail, remarks, “Wow. You’ve got a ton of hair.”

It should also be established that, in terms of hairstyling skill level, I’m a solid medium. I’m neither a styling pro nor a hair idiot, and my typical routine consists of washing my hair every other morning, adding some heavy styling cream, and blow-drying it with a diffuser. My goal is always to achieve curl definition while avoiding encouraging frizz, but outcomes vary wildly. If I didn’t work at Glamour, I’d probably be using a $30 blow-dryer from Amazon, but my professional circumstances have afforded me several very nice (averaging in the $250 range) hair dryers over the years. Each of them has been fine, but none has fully blown me away: Blowouts take much longer than I can abide and are destroyed by even moderate humidity (so I basically never attempt them), and, as already established, my diffuser skills are highly average. Most days after blow-drying, my very thick hair manages to look stringy and bushy at once, with a substantial layer of frizz garnishing the whole situation.

So when Dyson came out with the original Supersonic two years ago, I was intrigued but had just acquired a new $250 hair dryer and assumed there wouldn’t be much difference. Big mistake. Huge. Everyone I’ve talked to who’s tried it keeps raving about how nothing compares. So when I heard that Dyson won a Glamour Beauty Award for the readers’ choice category by a landslide, I needed it.

The unboxing revealed a concentrator attachment, a smoothing nozzle, and what I could tell just by looking at it would become either the best or the worst diffuser I’d ever used. At first glance it looked like a run-of-the-mill diffuser, but upon closer inspection I noticed its interior was fitted with a metal mesh that the air would be forced through—creating two layers of diffusion. In action, this meant that rather than my hair being blown around—which flattens curls and adds frizz—the Supersonic diffuser dries your hair faster, while still keeping your curls defined. On my first time, I got a frizz-free blow dry in five minutes. FIVE MINUTES. With my old $300 hair dryer, five minutes gets me half-damp/half-crunchy hair with a huge halo of dry frizz.

The Supersonic did such a fantastic job with the diffuser that I had to give the smoothing attachments a try. Blowing my hair out is something I seldom attempt because it’s always been a lengthy, multistep, minimally rewarding process. First, I’d spend a good 20-plus minutes blow drying my hair in sections with a round brush, eventually ending up with extremely tired arms and a very poufy, albeit straight head of hair. Next, it was on to the flatiron, which took another 10 to 15 minutes, depending on how ambitiously anti-puff I was feeling. The Supersonic blew that out of the water. What would normally take me at least 35 minutes with a very expensive hair dryer and flatiron literally took the Supersonic 12 minutes. I achieved a sleek, shiny blowout in a third of the time it would otherwise have taken—and not only was I having to hold a heavy tool above my head for less time, the Supersonic actually isn’t all that heavy.



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