Professional Hair Dyers: Ionic & Ceramic

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• Choose from 3 heat and 2 speed settings to find the dryer performance that works for your hair type.
• Wavytalk Ionic Hair Dryer
• Professional Motor
• Powerful airflow and consistent heat make it easy to dry and style your hair.
• REMINGTON Pro Hair Dryer with Pearl Ceramic Technology
• InfinitiPro by Conair Quick Styling Salon Hair Dryer

If you don’t change speeds and temperature a lot, though, the button locations might be a bonus, as they are hard to hit accidentally. Meanwhile, the cord has a small power bar near the plug, which itself is bulky. If you can’t or don’t want to leave the house with wet hair, you need a hair dryer. Among the models we tested, it tied for blowing the hottest and fastest air. The concentrators (small and medium) are great for precise styling and focused drying power, and the diffuser helps enhance natural curls and waves. The Conair 1875-Watt 3-in-1 Ionic Styler has a long row of grills (and a brush attachment) instead of a circular nozzle.

Choose from 3 heat and 2 speed settings to find the dryer performance that works for your hair type.

At 1.3 pounds, it’s noticeably heavier to hold than the W8less, especially after several minutes of drying. For the initial iteration of this guide, we timed the models drying a swatch of hair from a wig wetted with 5 grams of water, with the dryers on their highest setting. All of the dryers took more or less the same amount of time to dry hair.

Wavytalk Ionic Hair Dryer

Remington has yet again managed to create a powerful tool that leads to promising results, all without making a major splurge. Cord stays out of the way during styling and wraps up perfectly for easy storage. To use an attachment, simply push it into place on the front of the dryer. Catch up on Select’s in-depth coverage of personal finance, tech and tools, wellness and more, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok to stay up to date.

Professional Motor

The motor sits in the handle of the dryer rather than in the head. The handle is straight and a tad thicker than that of the Rusk W8less, too. Dyson says the motor placement makes the weight of the dryer more balanced, since it’s not top-heavy. The difference isn’t huge, but over weeks of using the Supersonic, we found ourselves appreciating the configuration.

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Detangler for straightening and smoothing; Blowout Boost works with a round brush; Diffuser helps define curls; Slipstream™ for pre-straightening. The dryer is engineered to produce a hushed tone for convenient, comfortable styling. The Ceramic + Titanium Coating delivers fast, even and consistent heat for our best drying experience. Keep the dryer and attachments organized for storage and travel. The Hot Tools Pro Artist White Gold Digital Salon Dryer, the Panasonic Nanoe EH-NA65, and the Panasonic Nanoe EH-NA67 were all slower, heavier, and more expensive than the Rusk W8less.

REMOVABLE FILTER

It changed my texture to be straighter with and without a brush, but it also brought some life to my waves with the help of its diffuser attachment. When I finished round brushing, I tossed my hair around with the cool shot to help my new style lock into place. The removable air filter keeps your dryer working at peak efficiency and is easy to clean.

Barbara Booth is a former editor at Select who has published several guides on self care and beauty products. When shopping for a hair dryer, our experts recommend looking at certain factors including your hair type, technology and settings to help you safely dry your hair with the help of these devices. Below, we break down how to determine which hair dryer is best for you. You get a styling concentrator, a flyaway attachment, and a wide-toothed comb, plus a “gentle” air attachment and a diffuser. If you have curly hair and prefer using a diffuser to dry it, you have to buy one separately (though it’s best to buy a hair dryer that comes with one).

REMINGTON Pro Hair Dryer with Pearl Ceramic Technology

Other attachments include the brand’s Double-Layered Detangler Pik and Single-Layered Detangler Pik that help smooth and straighten hair, according to Kiss. It also comes with a removable filter, which Lothrop says is important to clean regularly. This lightweight dryer weighs a little over a pound and has a 4.7-star average rating from 100 reviews at Pattern Beauty.

InfinitiPro by Conair Quick Styling Salon Hair Dryer

“As soon as you turn it on, [your hair] dries quickly,” says Foster, adding that it also stores very easily. It weighs less than a pound, so it’s lightweight enough to hold when you’re drying your hair at home, says Foster. If you want a slightly more affordable option, opt for the Pro Dryer 2000 from the brand. The retro-looking Conair Pro Yellow Bird Hair Dryer is one of the hottest dryers we’ve tested (reaching over 245 °F). But at a pound and a half, it also ties for the heaviest dryer we’ve looked at.

Revlon’s One-Step has three heat settings and three speed settings, along with a cooling feature to help your style last longer. It has both ionic technology to dry your hair quickly, as well as ceramic to distribute heat evenly, according to the brand. The RevAir is unlike any other hair-drying, heat-styling tool we’ve tested. For people with Type 3 or 4 curl patterns especially, this vacuum-like device is gentle on fragile strands and can cut down total drying time significantly. One tester, who usually requires two back-to-back appointments with a professional stylist at Drybar, now achieves similar drying and smoothing results with the RevAir in as little as 20 minutes.

Lastly, I wanted to put the included diffuser attachment to the test. For this, since my hair was very wet, I did end up applying a couple of pumps of EVOLVh’s Super Curl Defining Cream to help smooth my hair. Going from wet to dry, especially when diffusing, I like to give my hair the best chances of holding up. I finger-combed the product through my strands until it was evenly distributed and then turned the dryer on high heat at low airflow. I diffused my wet hair about 80% of the way, hit it all with the cool shot to help it set, and then left the rest to air dry naturally. The first thing I did with this blow dryer was used it to rough dry my damp hair.