The Dyson Airwrap Costs 10 Times As Much As the Revlon One-Ste But Does It Deliver a Better Blowout?
If you regularly style your hair using a blow dryer and a round brush, a tool that functionally combines these two items might be appealing. The $60 Revlon One-Step Hair Dryer and Volumizer, a hot-air brush that’s beloved by nearly 63,000 sleek-hair-seeking reviewers as well as members of the bustling Peloton Mom Facebook group, and the $550 Dyson Airwrap, a coveted styling system with as many add-ons as a high-end vacuum, are two such tools. We tried both and found that although they can do the same thing—dry and style damp hair—and produce similar results, the experience of using each tool is radically different.
For starters, the One-Step is much larger than the brush-attachment-equipped Airwrap. It looks like it would kick the Airwrap’s ass in a fistfight, too, as it bears a strong resemblance to what a medieval morning-star torture club would look like if pinkwashing marketing were prevalent in the 1400s. Were the One-Step a person, it would be Ser Brienne to the Airwrap’s Queen Sansa. But looks can be deceiving, as like the Game of Thrones women, both the One-Step and the Airwrap are capable and powerful, though each in their own contrasting ways.
Three other Wirecutter staffers and I tested the styling tools, blowing out and styling our own hair. Our approximate hair types: 2A (mostly straight), 3C (kinky curls), 3A/3B (loose-to-medium curls), 2B (medium waves). I also tested the One-Step and Airwrap on my 5-year-old daughter’s medium curls. I do not regularly blow out my own hair, whereas my colleagues who tried the tools do.
Our results with each tool were roughly the same: Each provided an adequate blowout, similar to the type a professional could do. It would be difficult to distinguish an Airwrap blowout from one done with the much-cheaper One-Step, especially after an hour of two of humidity. Experience-wise, however, the One-Step and the Airwrap couldn’t be further apart.
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