For a latest Hamptons getaway, I packed not one… not two… however three scorching instruments in my carry-on bag: a Dyson Supersonic blow-dryer, a GHD Platinum flatiron, and a Dyson Airwrap. All three had been essential to deliver alongside. (Maintain any eye-rolling, please.) All three had been, in truth, used to fashion my hair all through the lengthy weekend. And although I’m not a light-weight packer—evidently, I prefer to be totally accessorized—I might fortunately solely pack a single tool if it may create the completely different kinds (straight and polished, a voluminous blowout, mushy waves) I often put on and preserve my bangs glossy. T3’s brand-new Aire 360 may simply be the answer.
At first look, T3’s pretty-in-pastel-pink gadget appears acquainted. To the Dyson Airwrap (I maintain each side-by-side) and the quite a few different air stylers available on the market, definitely, but additionally to the model’s current Airebrush Duo that launched in 2021. That’s as a result of it’s an identical idea: there’s a base full with three warmth settings, a cool shot operate, and three pace settings, plus 4 attachments (a concentrated dryer nozzle, an oval brush—it’s the identical design because the 2021 version—and two curling barrels for creating waves in reverse instructions). What makes it distinctive: “Our barrels are ceramic, not plastic, so the warmth administration is completely different,” T3 cofounder Julie Chung tells me on the launch occasion. She emphasizes, “It is not tech for the sake of tech.”
What which means: the Aire 360 will get HOT. (Warning: Don’t contact the attachments after styling—besides on the heat-proof ends—or they are going to burn you.) However not too scorching to your hair: T3 did unbiased testing on the instrument to find out precisely how excessive they may flip up the warmth to lock in a mode—with out inflicting hair harm. In keeping with the model’s analysis, instruments over 320 levels Fahrenheit will trigger harm, particularly to moist hair. The best setting on the Aire 360 is effectively underneath that at about 237 levels Fahrenheit (Keep in mind to maintain your fingers—and ears—at a distance from the barrels!), whereas most curling irons attain almost 400 levels Fahrenheit. Even so, prepping with a heat protectant continues to be crucial to defend your hair from potential harm.
And like most different “blowout brushes,” heated air is flowing via the attachments, however “air is not only air,” says Chung. Just like the model’s different Better of Magnificence-winning dryers, the SoftAire Drying Concentrator attachment emits ion-enriched air to hurry up drying time.
Once I went to place the Aire 360 to the take a look at on my tremendous, wavy hair, I used to be impressed earlier than I even pulled the instrument out of its millennial pink vegan leather-based storage bag. Every attachment has a devoted pocket within the pouch. Chung tells me it’s referred to as the “Ashley bag” internally, named after her buddy who expressed the necessity for a correct, non-bulky, and elevated place to maintain all of the devices (as a result of, with most scorching instruments, you get a cumbersome field… or nothing) between makes use of and simply on the go.
