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The GHD Duet Fashion Is a Moist-to-Dry Hair Instrument That Will not Fry Your Hair

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The instrument has two settings: Slide the swap upward to activate the system to activate its wet-to-style mode. (You may hear the motor of the system kick on.) “In wet-to-style mode, the airflow of the Duet Fashion is heated to 302 levels Fahrenheit and the temperature of the plates is 248 levels Fahrenheit — permitting you to successfully type with out injury to fragile moist hair,” says Rob Milner, PhD, GHD’s chief expertise officer.

When you end styling your hair and discover you need extra shine, you should utilize the second setting: Simply press and maintain the button labeled “shine shot.” You may hear the motor shut off and see its backlight pulsate till it is prepared to make use of. The Shine Shot setting brings the plates as much as 365 levels Fahrenheit, remodeling your system right into a Platinum+ Styler, which can add luster and smoothness.

The model considered all the things — particularly everybody’s concern with wet-to-dry instruments: injury.

The Science Behind Its “No Harm” Declare

Claims Reviewed by Hairstylist Devin Toth and Dermatologist Joshua Zeichner, MD

GHD claims “4 passes will get you from moist to styled with no injury.” In different phrases, whereas in wet-to-style mode, transferring the Duet Fashion alongside a piece of hair as much as 4 occasions will type your hair with out injury. To make this declare, the model carried out a client research with 142 girls in June 2021 and 109 girls in October 2021. “Duet Fashion will dry and elegance your hair [in] three passes,” GHD’s Dr. Milner says. “As everybody makes use of hair instruments in a different way, for our injury testing we examined on 4 passes to be assured that even customers who would possibly use the product somewhat extra will not be operating the danger of thermal injury.”

Dr. Milner goes on to say that the Duet Fashion was examined on all hair varieties. “For the no injury declare we put [tresses of real] hair by way of 100 cycles of wetting and 4 drying passes to simulate a yr’s price of use. We then used a normal hair energy check to test that the hair was undamaged.”

Like Toth, Joshua Zeichner, MD, a board-certified dermatologist and director of beauty and scientific analysis in dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York Metropolis, is skeptical of this kind of hairstyling. “[Applying high heat to wet hair] may be dangerous each to the internal core of the hair and the outer cuticle,” he says. “In the end, this will result in everlasting bubbles throughout the construction of the hair itself that contributes to brittleness and breakage. Because the cuticle is broken, it will possibly result in dullness, frizziness, and break up ends.”