United States
A hair dryer and an air styler in the same body
Shark is on this site once, with the FlexStyle.
It converts. The same motor unit works as a hair dryer with a concentrator or a diffuser, and as an air styler with two auto-wrap curling barrels, a paddle brush and an oval brush. Every air styler on this shelf dries as well as styles; what is unusual here is that the dryer attachments are a concentrator and a diffuser rather than a brush, which is what a dryer actually ships with.
Two barrels, one for each side of the head. Coanda curling wraps in the direction the airflow turns; a single barrel curls one side against its natural fall. Shark supplies a pair, as the Beurer Iconic Pro does.
The weight is published: 700 g (24.7 oz), and it is the lowest figure on the shelf. Four of the nine air stylers here publish a weight at all, and the other three run from 800 g (28.2 oz) to 1,500 g (52.9 oz) — so on something held at arm’s length for ten minutes this is the one that asks least of the arm.
No airflow, no wattage, no temperature. On a tool that is half hair dryer, that is a real gap. The four dryers on this site all publish a wattage and two publish an air speed; not one publishes a temperature in degrees either. The Dyson Airwrap Origin in this same family publishes its motor, its speed and its pressure, and no temperature.
One claim to read carefully. Less frizz and more shine, footnoted as a comparison with air-drying, which is the least demanding baseline available.
The FlexStyle is set against the Airwrap Origin in their comparison, and every air styler here is in the air stylers category and the air styler guide.
Dryer and styler in one · 6 attachments · heat measured 1,000×/s · 700 g (24.7 oz)
A tool that converts between a hair dryer and an air styler, with two auto-wrap curling barrels, a paddle brush, an oval brush, a concentrator and a diffuser, measuring its own heat a thousand times a second. Case included, 700 grams.
Best for: One tool instead of a dryer and a styler, in a bathroom with nowhere to put both.
