GHD Duet Blowdry Review: Power and Fantastic Styling—for a Price Leave a comment

GHD says the Duet Blowdry checks the floor temperature of the system 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 Evaluate). Additionally much like the Chronos straightener, which has only one warmth setting of 365 levels Fahrenheit, the Blowdry solely heats to a single warmth degree: 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 supply warmth ranges nearer to 200 (although the best degree on some, just like the Revlon, reaches as much as 240 levels).

The Duet Blowdry additionally guarantees just about no warmth injury. I feel this may massively rely on how delicate your hair is and in case you’re utilizing a warmth protectant as you ought to be, since you might be 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’ll be able to’t actually create a form along with your hair till it is 80 p.c dry, however you’ll be able to nonetheless use the Duet Blowdry to get your hair to that 80 p.c level earlier than utilizing it to actually model your hair. Personally, I simply wait till my hair is considerably dry to even begin utilizing it, however you may want extra drying help when you’ve got longer hair.

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Whether or not or not the warmth injury claims are true, the blowout itself is implausible. I am constantly 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 normally would. My blowout lasts longer, too, trying higher than ordinary on day two or three because of the low-frizz outcomes with out dropping quantity or getting oily like my hair does after a severe hair-straightener sesh.

Is it definitely worth the splurge? Personally, as somebody who makes use of one in all these units after each hair wash day, it could be price it for me. It is the very best outcome I’ve gotten by far. Whereas it’s twice the worth of a Drybar or T3 blow-dry brush, the much less frizz and smoother outcomes that final for days are one thing I would splurge on for my on a regular basis software.

Nevertheless, it’s a bummer that for the worth, you are solely getting a single software. It is sensible contemplating the design and expertise 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 analogous worth level and include a number of attachments. Nonetheless, my editor finds she nonetheless must observe up with a correct flat iron after a blowout along with her FlexFusion, whereas I definitely do not want one after a morning with the Duet Blowdry.