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Gift Idea for Someone Who Hates Drying Their Hair: Dyson Hair Dryer

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Commenters have been singing the praises of Dyson hair dryers for a while now (see old threadjacks here, here, and here). Dyson promises that it increases hair smoothness by 75%, shine by up to 132%, and decreases frizz and flyaways by up to 61%. It also offers “intelligent heat control, and measures the air temperature over 40 times a second to prevent extreme heat damage.” There are some lovely gift sets out there right now, including this one that includes a presentation case, a smoothing nozzle, styling concentrator, diffuser, nonslip mat, and storage hanger — and if you're an existing Nordy Club member or cardmember it's eligible for a $50 bonus note. (See the terms to make sure you get it; Hautelook purchases do not apply.) You can also get the Dyson hair dryer at Nordstrom,Bergdorf Goodman, Ulta, Bed Bath & Beyond, and QVC for $399. (You can occasionally find refurbished options at Nordstrom Rack, and Groupon apparently.)

(It's new to me but apparently the Dyson AirWrap is a way of styling your hair without intense heat. Readers have called this $30 option from Revlon a dupe — I've bought it but haven't tried it yet. My guess is that if you're serious about avoiding intense heat, Dyson is the better choice, but it's a ton of money.) )

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  1. Anon

    Kind of the question you can only ask strangers on the internet, but what are your thoughts on drug use? I don’t mean pot (which is a different debate) – but harder stuff, cocaine, pills, etc. I recently went on a few dates with someone (in his late 30s) who I found out through friends regularly does all of that. It wasn’t going to work out regardless, and this was just a symptom of him being immature, but through all of this, I noticed that I seem to have a more stringent? attitude toward all of this than some friends of mine. They all agree this guy sucked, but seemed surprised I was surprised if that makes sense?

    • Anon

      Would your friends be okay to be in a relationship with or marry a person who does hard drugs? If they are not, then they are stringent too when it is going to impact them.

      • Anon

        Different Anon, but are your friends single? I’ve noticed that my friends who have long been in relationships will often say that a single person should overlook things that would have been a deal breaker for them when dating. Something about being far removed from the dating experience makes people more accepting of real deal-breakers (to be clear, I’m not talking about physical things. I’m talking about things like hasn’t worked in years for no clear reason and lives in his parents’ basement)

    • Anon

      I’ve dated people who did hard drugs in the past but not at the time I dated them. I dated one person for a while who did all sorts of drugs pretty extensively in his 20s but stopped in his early 30s after a health scare — I dated him when he was in his mid-40s, so a decade after he had last used a hard drug. This would be a total deal breaker for me, I don’t even date people who smoke week with any kind of regularity or regularly drink heavily (a few times a year wouldn’t bother me, a few times a month would).

    • Anonymous

      I wouldn’t date someone who uses any drugs other than MJ because its legal in my state. I don’t use drugs and don’t want to be around people who do. That includes pills.

    • Anon

      I would never be ok with hard drug use. Past use when he has clearly moved past it and would never do it again, maybe … current use, no way! But, fwiw, I don’t think I would be willing to accept routine pot use at this age (mid-30s) either, so I may be on the more stringent end of attitudes too.

    • Anon

      Ever been beaten by a cocaine addict? I have. It was awful.

      There are a lot of reasons why someone who does drugs is not someone I would choose as a partner. Some of it is self-preservation: people on drugs can do violent and dangerous things. Drug possession laws can implicate anyone with access to the drugs (i.e. in the house with them), which could mean doing jail time for drugs. People who do drugs don’t buy them at the local CVS; they get them from people who can be violent and dangerous.

      Then there’s just the whole “building a life with a drug addict” part.

      Hard pass.

      • anon

        That sounds rough. I agree with this, the legal aspect, the exposure to violence and general endangerment of one’s own health and the surrounding people are all a no. Hard drugs to a large part are illegal because they are so highly addictive, which comes with a whole host of mental, financial and social issues. I wouldn’t start a relationship where I am willingly taking that on (as opposed to sticking by a long-term partner who gets addicted, but this is hypothetical for me so who knows). I also wouldn’t start dating an alcoholic or heavy smoker for those reasons.

      • Anon

        So there’s very clearly this ^^ and there’s also this from below: “Not sure that well-adjusted, well-functioning, mentally healthy adults ever engage in hard drug use.”

        Heck no I wouldn’t be ok with it. Call me a goody two shoes, but no, that’s not my scene and I’m ok with it not being my scene. My scene includes watching the Food Network gingerbread competition with my husband and dogs wearing pjs at 8 pm.

        Don’t question who you are over this. It’s ok to be YOU. Let your friends be whoever they want to be.

      • Anon

        Haha, I know. I think recreational use of harder drugs is not at all uncommon.

      • Anonymous

        I’ve lived in NYC for 15 years and don’t know anyone who uses hard drugs (as far as I know). I work in the arts. Perhaps it is more common in some industries?

        OP, I’m a total square but I would be uncomfortable with it too,. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I never even tried MJ for various reasons (not all good reasons), but if this was an important part of someone’s life, I would think we were probably incompatible on a basic level.

      • OP

        This is what I mean! Like can you elaborate? What is/isn’t normal? I’m open to the idea that I’m wrong/too stringent, I just don’t have a good standard. Not NYC, Boston, but I’d imagine similar rules apply.

        • Anon

          I’ll elaborate, anonymously and a bit vaguely. I’m in NYC in law/finance and spend a lot of time with people in those industries (as well as other related/similar industries). My social group is in their early 30s to early 40s and social cocaine use is not uncommon, with some (thought less) molly (ecstasy/MDMA) and microdosing acid use as well. For the groups I know, not everyone does it, and many people who do it may not do it that frequently, but it is around and pretty unremarkable. Of course, people try to be discreet around those who don’t indulge, which isn’t always successful but is easier to do than if you were smoking pot. To give context, most of the people in the social group (both those that do hard drugs and those that don’t) also tend to like to drink fairly frequently. I don’t really know people who do much in the way of pills if you’re talking about Oxy or the like, or at least I don’t know about it.

          If you’re uncomfortable with hard drug use for someone you date, I think that’s fair. But I also think that you may know people socially who use hard drugs on occasion but don’t realize it.

      • Anon

        I lived in NYC for my 20s, and didn’t know anyone who did hard drugs despite many friends who liked to party and do pot. Maybe it is more common in some segments or more common than other cities, but I really don’t think the average adult in NYC is recreationally using harder drugs

      • Anon

        I live in NYC and don’t date hard drug users. I’m in my 30s and date people in their 30s and 40s. This has not been an issue at all.

      • Alanna of Trebond

        Hmm, I live in NYC and I am pretty sure none of my friends does hard drugs. Where do you find these people?!

    • Anonymous

      I wouldn’t care if they experimented a little in college but hard drug use more than that? Thank u, next.

    • Anon

      I think a lot of the men I’ve dated had used harder stuff recreationally in their early to mid-20s, but not while I was dating them. And most of my female friends have, too. I’ve never used those drugs and I don’t feel comfortable around people who do, but knowing that my boyfriend or friends had done that before has never been a problem for me.

    • Anon

      anon for this, but was very shocked that some doctors in residency I’m friends with discussing doing harder drugs in casual conversation

      • Anon

        I don’t know whether it’s selection bias or the outcome of an education in drugs, but I do think of this as a doctor thing for a subset of doctors.

    • Anonymous

      I am not okay with current drug use. If my SO told me that every now and then he smokes weed with friends when I am not around, I would be okay but not pleased with that. Beyond that, I am just not comfortable with it. I also recognize that I am a little hypocritical because I can abide significant alcohol use. The illegality is definitely part of it, even though I recognize there are good reasons why drug laws should change. Somehow, I managed to hook up with someone who, like me, has never engaged in any drug use. That was certainly not a requirement, just one of the ways in which we discovered we align.

    • Anon

      I think people doing hard drugs recreationally is more common than we think. But that’s a hard line for me since I have an addict in my family.

    • Anon

      I work on a federal government contract and my best future job prospects given my location & industry are government or government contract. Since I need to maintain clearance and dating someone who does drugs (or even works in the locally legal MJ industry) is considered “poor judgment” that could lead to the removal of my clearance, it would be a hard no from me.

      If it weren’t for work, I wouldn’t care about MJ but still probably wouldn’t date anyone who does or recently did hard drugs, nor would I date anyone who drank heavily on a regular basis. I’ve never been into the party scene and am not comfortable doing any of that myself, so I don’t think I would be a great companion to someone with those interests. First, because it wouldn’t be something I wanted to do or be around, and second, because I wouldn’t have much empathy regarding fallout of them doing it.

      • Anonymous

        Dating somebody who works in the MJ industry if it’s legal in your state is not “poor judgement” nor grounds for removal of a security clearance, good gracious. Calm down. Fine if you don’t want to date those people but it won’t result in your clearance being pulled.

        • Anon

          It is grounds for removal of a security clearance. I know because my husband wanted to go into the MJ industry, so we looked into it. MJ is federally illegal and you absolutely can get your clearance pulled if you’re married to someone who works with it because they consider it poor judgment to be with someone committing a federal crime.

    • Anonymous

      I’m in my early 30s and both DH and I indulge in weed maybe 1-2x a month. Ive tried ecstasy and molly in college and it was fun but don’t particularly care for it these days . DH will take shrooms now and then with friends and we have friends who do LSD and shrooms a few times a year (also very functional people). We are both totally functional and stable with professional jobs so I don’t draw those hard lines except for with opiates (zero tolerance for heroin or recreational opoids for instance).

        • Anon

          So rude. I’m not the poster above, but her husband’s doing hallucinogens every now and then doesn’t seem to be hurting anyone, and maybe he just enjoys it? People don’t ask that about once a year MJ or alcohol use.

          I have the same feelings about drug use as this Anonymous and Not Today below (I’m also single, and would date the people described). I think people can be functional adults and do hallucinogens or certain other drugs very occasionally, in a kind of structured way, and still be fine, functional adults. I would not date someone who did opioids or meth, even occasionally, and I wouldn’t date anyone who did any drugs (even MJ) very regularly.

          Absolutely can understand why people would not want to, and I don’t judge them as square or anything. This is just my personal tolerance level.

          • Drugs

            LaurenB is a mid-50s liberal who always seems to have an entirely too-prescriptive worldview. I have never done illegal drugs in my life, but doing hallucinogens a couple times a year seems like not that big of a deal and doesn’t harm anyone else – why do we need to care about OP’s husband taking shrooms or even worse call it “tacky”?

    • Anon

      I self-identify as a square but I don’t know anyone who does hard drugs (and very few people who use MJ) and it would definitely be a dealbreaker for me for romantic relationships or even close friendships.

    • Never too many shoes...

      Hard pass on coke or anything harder. MJ, even regularly, is not a big deal at all to me, but I think generally Canadians view it as way less of a big deal.

      I am bemused at the number of people who think getting drunk a few times per month is too many…every lawyer I know drinks a lot and it is not seen as even being worth a mention. Daily drunk is a problem but once a week would not even register for me or any of my colleagues.

      • Anon

        I’m a lawyer in my 30s. In my 20s, I could definitely get drunk once a week. Now, the hangovers are killer and ruin my ability to do other things for a day or two after. For anyone who’s made it to the age when they have real hangovers but continues to drink heavily regularly would make me concerned that they don’t have enough of a life — either non-drinking related hobbies or a serious job or both.

        • Anon

          Agreed. I’m also an attorney in my 30s. Most of the attorneys I know are drinking multiple nights a week, but don’t get drunk a few times per month. I can’t even think of anyone who is getting drunk once a month; it’s more like a few times a year, at most.

    • Anon

      Would I have dated a guy who did harder drugs? Maybe for like a week. Married/LTR? Hell no.

    • Anon

      Nope.

      No to MJ (I absolutely LOATHE the smell, and the stupid). No to harder drugs. Absolutely not.

      No. If a date/love interest disclosed current drug use or current social circle with drug use: DTMFA, Nope.

      I really don’t care about generations blah blah. DTMFA.

    • Ellen

      Of course it is awful to put this stuff in your body, or your lungs. I am on an all natural run, eating only natural things and not taking anything stronger then Aspirin for a headache. I also am thinking of who I will vote for after listenting to the debates last night. Can anyone tell me if we can have a president name Buttigujudge? Dad says we are not ready for him, but he is the mayor and that means he knows how to run a city. I hope everyone has a happy holiday and new years, as I will be spending it quietely with family and freinds as I am no longer going to be out there looking for men. I will let them find me, Dad says. Dad also says I need not look like a model to get a man. He said for me to use Hoda Copy as my new role model. She is much taller then me, but Dad says I have a cuter face, and she managed to find a husband and adopted a baby. I hope that will be me in 2020. YAY!

  2. Anon

    Would your friends be okay to be in a relationship with or marry a person who does hard drugs?

  3. Anom

    I will bite. I’m a 43 year old lawyer, married, kids. When I was in college I had a BF that experimented a little with harder stuff, and it was just experimentation that didn’t lead to bad consequences. HOWEVER, by your late 30’s you should have responsibilities (e.g., career) and goals (e.g., health, not going to jail) that are not compatible with seriously risky behavior like hard drug use. Also, re the BF who experimented in college, while the occasional drug use was not a problem in and of itself, he did have other underlying problems and the drug use was likely a combination of self-medication and a cry for help. Not sure that well-adjusted, well-functioning, mentally healthy adults ever engage in hard drug use.

    • NotToday

      I think I agree with you up to the “ever.” I would replace that with “regularly.”

      Hallucinogens — I know folks who would partake once a year, once every other year, likely on a trip, no kids or kids are with babysitter, spouse is with the participant, etc. Call me a hippie, but I think the occasional journey of that sort can be meaningful and valuable, and also a really good time.

      Other stuff — the folks I know who partake are likely to use at a bachelor party or similar, one big, intentionally wild night out. Not my jam, but I don’t care or judge if someone else does it.

      Regular use would give me pause, and I am in a phase of life where I’m far too uptight to enjoy any at all. I’d respect anyone’s prerogative to say “it won’t work for me if you use any drugs” in a dating (or friendship) context, but to answer the survey-type question, I don’t think only bad, irresponsible people use them over the age of 30.

  4. Anonymous

    Does anyone with fine hair know if this dryer will help with body – I already dry upside down and with a round brush so wonder if this will enhance that?

  5. Ribena

    I’ve heard these are great but I don’t buy Dyson products because he hugely funded the pro Brexit campaign. Something to be aware of, sorry to be a fun sponge!

    The best hair tool I have is actually a hairbrush with a metal barrel which heats up (just using the heat from the hairdryer, it’s not its own heat source). It makes using the hairdryers at the gym so much quicker! Mine is Babyliss but I’m sure there are other brands.

    • Anonymous

      It’s your loss because Dyson is the best hair dryer ever. You are not hurting him only yourself.

      • all about eevee

        She’s not “hurting” anybody by not buying a certain type of dryer. Chill.

  6. LaurenB

    Can we talk Nancy Pelosi, her wardrobe, and especially her Mace pin? I die. (Google Mace Pin – Ann Hand for the link to the actual pin, which I want badly but is on back order.)

    • Pep

      I need to work pins/brooches into my work outfits. I love Speaker Pelosi’s taste in dresses; I wish I could afford (or fit into!) her wardrobe!

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