For a contemporary Hamptons getaway, I packed now not one… now not two… however 3 scorching equipment in my carry-on bag: a Dyson Supersonic blow-dryer, a GHD Platinum flatiron, and a Dyson Airwrap. All 3 have been important to convey alongside. (Dangle any eye-rolling, please.) All 3 have been, in truth, used to taste my hair all through the lengthy weekend. And despite the fact that I’m now not a mild packer—it appears that evidently, I love to be absolutely accessorized—I’d thankfully handiest pack a unmarried instrument if it might create the other types (instantly and polished, a voluminous blowout, cushy waves) I ceaselessly put on and stay my bangs graceful. T3’s brand-new Aire 360 may simply be the answer.
To start with look, T3’s pretty-in-pastel-pink machine seems to be acquainted. To the Dyson Airwrap (I hang each side-by-side) and the a lot of different air stylers available on the market, surely, but in addition to the logo’s present Airebrush Duo that introduced in 2021. That’s as it’s a an identical idea: there’s a base whole with 3 warmth settings, a fab shot serve as, and 3 pace settings, plus 4 attachments (a concentrated dryer nozzle, an oval brush—it’s the similar design because the 2021 model—and two curling barrels for developing waves in reverse instructions). What makes it distinctive: “Our barrels are ceramic, now not plastic, so the warmth control is other,” T3 cofounder Julie Chung tells me on the release tournament. She emphasizes, “It is not tech for the sake of tech.”
What that implies: the Aire 360 will get HOT. (Caution: Don’t contact the attachments after styling—with the exception of at the heat-proof ends—or they’re going to burn you.) However now not too scorching in your hair: T3 did impartial trying out at the instrument to resolve precisely how top they might flip up the warmth to fasten in a method—with out inflicting hair injury. In step with the logo’s analysis, equipment over 320 levels Fahrenheit will motive injury, in particular to rainy hair. The absolute best environment at the Aire 360 is easily underneath that at about 237 levels Fahrenheit (Take into accout to stay your hands—and ears—at a distance from the barrels!), while maximum curling irons succeed in just about 400 levels Fahrenheit. Even so, prepping with a warmth protectant remains to be crucial to defend your hair from doable injury.
And prefer maximum different “blowout brushes,” heated air is flowing throughout the attachments, however “air isn’t just air,” says Chung. Like the logo’s different Perfect of Attractiveness-winning dryers, the SoftAire Drying Concentrator attachment emits ion-enriched air to hurry up drying time.
After I went to position the Aire 360 to the take a look at on my effective, wavy hair, I used to be inspired ahead of I even pulled the instrument out of its millennial red vegan leather-based garage 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 good friend who expressed the desire for a right kind, non-bulky, and increased position to stay the entire units (as a result of, with maximum scorching equipment, you get a cumbersome field… or not anything) between makes use of and simply at the pass.