GHD says the Duet Blowdry checks the floor temperature of the gadget 400 instances per second to ensure it is sustaining the warmth all through your use—much more than the 250 instances a second in GHD’s equally geared up Chronos Max hair straightener (7/10, WIRED Review). Additionally just like the Chronos straightener, which has only one warmth setting of 365 levels Fahrenheit, the Blowdry solely heats to a single warmth stage: 248 levels Fahrenheit, which GHD says is an optimum low styling temperature. Whereas 248 levels is low in comparison with different warmth instruments like straighteners or curling irons, it’s on the warmer finish for blow-dry brushes, which regularly provide warmth ranges nearer to 200 (although the very best stage on some, just like the Revlon, reaches as much as 240 levels).
The Duet Blowdry additionally guarantees nearly no warmth injury. I feel this may vastly rely on how delicate your hair is and for those who’re using a heat protectant as you ought to be, since you’re utilizing a warmth software in your hair and moist hair is very delicate. Whereas GHD describes this as a wet-to-dry brush, the model says you possibly can’t actually create a form together with your hair till it is 80 % dry, however you possibly can nonetheless use the Duet Blowdry to get your hair to that 80 % level earlier than utilizing it to actually fashion your hair. Personally, I simply wait till my hair is considerably dry to even begin utilizing it, however you may want extra drying help if in case you have longer hair.
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Whether or not or not the warmth injury claims are true, the blowout itself is incredible. I am persistently impressed with how a lot quantity I get with out feeling like I am in a wind tunnel, and I’ve fewer flyaways than I often would. My blowout lasts longer, too, trying higher than ordinary on day two or three due to the low-frizz outcomes with out dropping quantity or getting oily like my hair does after a critical hair-straightener sesh.
Is it well worth the splurge? Personally, as somebody who makes use of one among these units after each hair wash day, it could be value it for me. It is the perfect consequence I’ve gotten by far. Whereas it’s twice the value of a Drybar or T3 blow-dry brush, the much less frizz and smoother outcomes that final for days are one thing I might splurge on for my on a regular basis software.
Nevertheless, it’s a bummer that for the value, you are solely getting a single software. It is sensible contemplating the design and know-how packed into it that is particularly made for a blowout brush, and thus why it is such blowout brush, however different equally priced choices just like the Shark FlexStyle (9/10, WIRED Recommends) or FlexFusion have an identical value level and include a number of attachments. Nonetheless, my editor finds she nonetheless must observe up with a proper flat iron after a blowout along with her FlexFusion, whereas I definitely do not want one after a morning with the Duet Blowdry.
