The Best Hair Dryers of 2021

Like the Bio Ionic, the Devacurl dryer is the heaviest at 1.2 pounds (tying with the Harry Josh), but easy to hold, and produces a low humming noise that is loud but not unpleasant. As you may be able to tell by now, those physical features are all highly important to me when it comes to choosing the best hair dryer, so it’s no surprise that the Devacurl ranked second place when all of my testing results were scored. The placement of the controls (on the inside of the barrel where my thumb instinctively lands) and the order that the switches are labeled in (ascending from coolest to hottest or lowest to highest) makes this dryer especially appealing to me. In terms of intuitiveness, it even beats out the Bio Ionic, which has the controls on the opposite side of the barrel—not prime real estate, in my opinion.

在terms of power, this one is among the top half of the dryers in our ping pong test, with Kristin Ess and Harry Josh. It dried my hair quickly and left it feeling soft to the touch. Its Achilles heel that bumped it to our second spot: it reached 107.9°F (the hottest), which can be drying on the hair and feel too hot to the touch. However, you may find the lower heat setting fine if the highest one is too hot.

关于Amika烘干机的最吸引人的是它的较长，狭窄的枪管，这比我测试过的任何其他干衣机都更具控制力。我可以真正靠近我的根，而不会到处吹来，最终纠结起来。我的头发也像生物离子一样干燥和光滑。

We deducted points because of the control settings. This dryer has two heat settings (cool and hot) and two power settings (low and high), each controlled by two respective buttons, rather than the toggle switches used by most dryers. If the dryer is blowing cool hair, you click the “hot/cool” button to change to hot; the same idea goes for the power settings. Unfortunately, you can’t see what setting they’re on, as you can with the usual switches. Yes, you’ll notice by how hot the air is or how forceful the air is blowing out, but I found it odd that the controls weren’t labeled to reflect this

At 106.6°F, this dryer reached among the hottest temperatures we measured, and I wished that there was a medium heat setting, as can be found on the similarly ultra-hot Devacurl.

我太挑剔了吗？也许。但是Amika在我们的实验室测试中也不是表现最好的人。当我们在乒乓球测试中测试其强度时，它是竞争者的下半部分。

该干衣机的价格是中级价格，使其在乍一看时相当吸引人。它的设计良好，头部和喷嘴狭窄，易于控制并且可以舒适地握住 - 它的重量为0.9磅，比其他某些人高，但我们并没有发现它太累了。

不幸的是，虽然该干衣机起作用，但也得到了veryhot. It was the hottest dryer Jess Teich tested and she worried it would damage her hair. “With three heat settings and two speeds, this dryer blasted my hair直的。但是，最终的样式看起来粗糙，有点炸，不像较昂贵的干衣机一样光滑和光滑。”During heat testing, this dryer clocked in at 104.4°F, which isn’t the highest (Devacurl topped the charts at 107.9°F, though Teich didn’t test this one), but not as mild as the Bio Ionic (our lowest recorded “high” temperature, at 96.3°F) or the Revlon (96.4°F).

在上一轮的测试中，哈里·乔什（Harry Josh）被加冕为最好的吹风机，因为它得分良好，并且受到我们以前的测试人员的喜爱。经过评论的几个人甚至在测试后购买了干衣机，但仍然喜欢它。但是，我的经验是一种糟糕的经验，这是有道理的，因为我们意识到我们的测试模型在我们的新测试中显示出恶化的迹象。

For background: I tested the Harry Josh dryer that we’d kept in storage at our office for at least two years since our last test. When that unit underperformed, I tested the same model that one of our editors has owned for a year. When I found the performance of the second Harry Josh anecdotally better, we tested that unit in our labs and found it performed just as the original tester dryer had. The thing is, I tested four new models, including our new overall pick from Bio Ionic, that weren’t on the market at the time of the last test. And while I found the (second) Harry Josh I tested to be just fine, other brands simply performed better.

哈里·乔什（Harry Josh）以1.2磅的体重与我们测试过的最重的干衣机的另外两种型号并列。考虑到它具有最紧凑的设计，这是令人惊讶的，它足够小，可以充当旅行吹风机。小尺寸可能需要一点时间来习惯，因为重量分布不同，但持有舒适。

One upside to this dryer is its 9.7-foot cord, which is great if your outlet isn’t right next to your mirror. It comes with two concentrator nozzles and has a “negative ion” setting switch that claims smoother styling. Without a nozzle accessory, I struggled to control the dryer’s airflow, which caused my hair to poof up more than any other blow dryer. The nozzle attachment corrects this problem, but that accessory gets burning-hot to the touch, so there’s no taking it off mid-drying session without waiting for it to cool. Another big deterrent for me was the high pitch squeal of this dryer—after I finished, my ears were ringing for about the same amount of time it took to dry my hair—20 minutes.

No hair dryer list would be complete without mention of the cult-favorite Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer. Its diminutive but powerful motor lives inside the Supersonic's handle instead of the head, differentiating it from the other models we've tested. The design lends itself to being more balanced and, in theory, more pleasant to use, ergonomically. However, placing the motor inside of the handle comes with a downside: in order to accommodate it, the handle's girth is thicker than many of the models we tested. While it might look sleek, it's uncomfortable to hold.

While Dyson is advertised as "silent," it produces 79.5-dbA of sound, while operating. It's not the quietest hair dryer we tested. But it's not the loudest, either.

We liked that the Supersonic's control buttons are located on the head of the dryer as opposed to in its handle. Their placement keeps them from accidentally engaging them while the hair dryer is in use—an issue that many hair dryers suffer from. Its 'cool mode' button locks into place so that you don’t have to keep squeezing it while you work on setting your blowout. A nice touch. The Supersonic comes with two smoothing nozzles and a diffuser, all of which attach to the hair dryer, magnetically.

您应该知道，这种吹风机的电源线非常笨重，就像延长电缆一样，使其不适合包装到过夜袋中。它的大型，半磅的适配器使这一刺激了。

While the Supersonic works well enough, there are far less expensive hair dryers that you can invest in, at a much lower price, that will yield similar results.

If you’re a fan of Drybar, the chain of salons known exclusively for blowouts, you’re probably curious about this tool.

This dryer’s claim to fame is that it’s ultralight to keep stylists from becoming body-builders, but we found it heavier than expected—at 1.1 pounds, it’s actually only 0.1 pounds less than our heaviest dryers. The Buttercup has three speed settings and two heat settings on the front of the handle and comes with two smoothing nozzles.

Even on high, the airspeed didn’t feel strong to Teich’s but it dried her long hair a bit faster than the ultra-powerful Dyson, just without the ultra shiny, soft feel. It didn’t perform badly, but the Buttercup wasn’t a standout.

我是一个新的测试者，我希望这款干衣机被Coifs Lauren Conrad和Lucy Hale的名人设计师品牌，成为震惊者，因为它可以轻松地在Target上使用，并带有光滑的白色和金色包装。不幸的是，它进来的盒子是它所付出的最好的事情。克里斯汀·埃斯（Kristin Ess）烘干机在实验室测试中脱落，并根据我自己的经验。最值得注意的是，尽管其较高的音调，但干衣机的声音与其他音量大致相同，并且使整个体验分配。

在功率方面，这种干衣机在我们的乒乓球测试中表现良好，与哈里·乔什（Harry Josh）和迪瓦克尔（Devacurl）并列，在生物ionic（我们的测试中表现最佳）后面。与Buttercup类似，该干衣机在我使用时并没有脱颖而出，而漆黑的声音的一件事是负面的。

品牌Conair是吹风机的代名词，这是一个以合理的价格进行的经典，但已升级足以吸引购物者，寻找具有更多功能的干衣机。

但是，这种Conair象征着高端干衣机与预算之间的差异。它明显重，似乎更大，空气流弱。它的浓缩器喷嘴太宽，无法有效地集中空气，侧面通风孔含有已经塑造的头发。

这款Conair提供了三个热设置和两个速度，但它们都没有足够的功能来驯服Teich的头发，其结果是卷曲的风格。最后，Teich由于手臂疲劳而在干燥时不得不在干燥时切换手，这比其设计的平衡要比其1.1磅重的重量更大。

The T3 dryer’s unique acute angle design helps distribute its 1.1 pound weight. It feels light and ergonomic to use, although you might smack yourself in the head a couple times while you get used to its shape. It comes with a concentrated nozzle and was the only dryer to come with a round brush, which seems like a great add-on, but the quality doesn’t stack up to one you may purchase separately.

经过将近30分钟的造型，Teich说，干衣机仍然无法驯服她的海浪，干燥机使整个房间在尝试的过程中加热了很多。

T3烘干机的价格在类别的顶端，但所产生的样式可与两种廉价的圆锥体中较便宜的干衣机相媲美。

这种吹风机的准则就像是准则，这反映在其低价（在出版时，它是此列表中最便宜的）。只有两个设置，高和低，但没有凉爽的镜头，也没有可调节的温度。在高高的情况下，干燥机会产生非常热的空气（在我们的测试中100º），但空气动力不足以使头发浓密 - 它留下了Teich的头皮热和潮湿的汗水，从而导致了外观上的油腻的根。

This Conair is by far the lightest dryer we tested at 0.5 pounds. But as easy it is to wield this dryer, the end of the nozzle is wide and, as it doesn’t come with an air concentrator nozzle (or any other attachments), you will get quite hot during your blowout as hot, unregulated air blows all around you. Teich’s resulting hairstyle was a bit fried and a lot frizzier. Only reach for this in a pinch.