Multi-Stylers & Dupes
The Best Airwrap Dupes in 2026
There is one genuine near-equivalent, one much cheaper tool that does part of the job well, and a lot of noise.
Updated September 2026 · Sawyer V.
The Shark FlexStyle is the only tool with genuinely comparable published specifications — more wattage, the same warranty, and it converts to a dryer. Below that, a hot air brush costs a small fraction and does the smoothing part well, but does not curl the same way. Those are the two real options.
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Quick picks
Tap any row to jump to the full write-up. Prices come from the live price layer; where none is available the button says so rather than showing a number we cannot stand behind.
| # | Product | Best for | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shark FlexStyle air styling and drying system 1,600 W against Dyson's 1,300 W, the same two-year warranty, and it converts to a standalone dryer. | Anyone who wants the Airwrap result for less | |
| 2 | Shark FlexStyle IonCurl hair styler 1,700 W at the same published 1.5 lb — the highest rating of any air styler here. | Denser hair that the original FlexStyle dried too slowly | |
| 3 | Revlon One-Step Volumizer Plus hair dryer and hot air brush A fraction of the price, four heat settings and a four-year warranty — but it is a different tool, not a smaller one. | Smooth blowout volume rather than defined curls | |
| — | Dyson Airwrap multi-styler (Complete Long) The lowest published wattage of any air styler here, at several times the price of the closest alternative. We’d skip this | Not the value case |
3. The cheap alternative that works
Revlon One-Step Volumizer Plus hair dryer and hot air brush
Best for: Smooth blowout volume rather than defined curls
A fraction of the price, four heat settings and a four-year warranty — but it is a different tool, not a smaller one.
An honest dupe roundup has to include the tool most people would actually be happy with. If what you want from an Airwrap is a smooth, voluminous blowout rather than defined curls, a hot air brush delivers that for a small fraction of the money.
Revlon publishes four heat settings — low, medium, high and cool — a ceramic titanium barrel with tourmaline ionic technology, a detachable brush head, and a four-year limited warranty. That warranty is double what Dyson and Shark offer.
What it will not do is wrap hair around a barrel to set a curl. This is a smoothing and volumizing tool, and calling it an Airwrap dupe overstates it. Calling it the right purchase for a lot of people does not.
What’s wrong with it
It does not curl the way an air styler does, and Revlon publishes no wattage, weight, cord length or speed-setting count for it.
Published specifications — Revlon One-Step Volumizer Plus hair dryer and hot air brush
| Wattage | Not published |
|---|---|
| Heat settings | 4 heat settings — low, medium, high, cool |
| Speed settings | Not published |
| Weight | Not published |
| Cord length | Not published |
| Noise (dB) | Not published |
| Attachments | Detachable brush head |
| Plate / barrel | Ceramic titanium barrel; tourmaline ionic |
| Dual voltage | Not published |
| Warranty | 4-year limited warranty |
Every figure above is taken from Revlon Hair Tools — One-Step Volumizer Plus product page. “Not published” means the figure does not appear on that page — it is not an estimate withheld, it is a number the manufacturer does not state. How we compile these.
What it costs to run for a year
Revlon does not publish a wattage for this tool, so there is nothing honest to compute. The formula is watts ÷ 1,000 × hours a year × your rate per kWh; if you find a rating plate on the handle, 65 hours a year and 18.34 cents per kilowatt-hour will get you the rest of the way.
The one we'd skip
Dyson Airwrap multi-styler (Complete Long)
Best for: Not the value case
The lowest published wattage of any air styler here, at several times the price of the closest alternative.
On a page about alternatives, the Airwrap itself is the thing we would skip, and the reasoning is entirely from published figures.
1,300 W is the lowest mains rating in our whole registry. The warranty is two years — the same as the Shark, and half what a drugstore Revlon offers. The weight advantage is 0.1 lb. The cord advantage is half a foot. And it does not convert to a dryer.
None of that makes it a bad tool, and on fine hair the low wattage is genuinely the right specification — which is why we recommend it on the fine-hair page. But if you arrived here looking for the best value in this category, the published numbers do not point at the Dyson.
What’s wrong with it
Lowest published wattage in the category, no dryer conversion, and a two-year warranty matched by a tool costing a fraction as much.
Published specifications — Dyson Airwrap multi-styler (Complete Long)
| Wattage | 1,300 W |
|---|---|
| Heat settings | 3 heat settings |
| Speed settings | 3 speed settings |
| Weight | 1.4 lb |
| Cord length | 8.5 ft |
| Noise (dB) | Not published |
| Attachments | Curling barrels, smoothing brushes, round volumizing brush, drying nozzle |
| Plate / barrel | Coanda airflow barrels; no clamped heat plate |
| Dual voltage | No — 120 V |
| Warranty | 2-year limited warranty |
Every figure above is taken from Dyson — Airwrap Complete Long product page. “Not published” means the figure does not appear on that page — it is not an estimate withheld, it is a number the manufacturer does not state. How we compile these.
What it costs to run for a year
$15.50 a year
1,300 W × 65 hours a year = 84.5 kWh, at 18.34 cents per kilowatt-hour. The hours assume 15 minutes a session, 5 days a week — that is an assumption, not a measurement, so swap in your own if it is wrong.
What counts as a dupe
The word gets used for two different things, and conflating them is why so much of this coverage is unhelpful.
A functional equivalent does what the Airwrap does — uses fast airflow to wrap and set hair around a barrel. In current retail, essentially only the Shark FlexStyle line qualifies on published specifications.
A cheaper way to get a similar-looking result is a different proposition. A hot air brush produces smooth volume for a small fraction of the price, and for a great many people that is actually the result they wanted. It is not the same mechanism, and pretending otherwise sets people up for disappointment.
The comparison, on what is published
Air stylers and the nearest alternatives, as published
| Tool | Wattage | Weight | Warranty | Converts to dryer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dyson Airwrap Complete Long | 1,300 W | 1.4 lb | 2-year | No |
| Shark FlexStyle | 1,600 W | 1.5 lb | 2-year | Yes |
| Shark FlexStyle IonCurl | 1,700 W | 1.5 lb | 2-year | Yes |
| Revlon One-Step Volumizer Plus | Not published | Not published | 4-year | Not applicable |
Every figure from the manufacturer's own product page. Blank cells are blank at the source.
The Dyson is bottom of the table on power, mid-table on weight, tied bottom on warranty, and the only one that will not also dry your hair. That is a strange position for the most expensive product in a category.
What none of them publish
Airflow, in any comparable unit. Since these tools work by moving air, that is the specification that would settle which one styles faster and holds better — and it does not exist publicly. Anyone ranking air stylers on airflow is testing (and should say how) or guessing.
Noise is the other blank, from every manufacturer in the category.
The money, in cents per use
Price per use, at 5 uses a week over 5 years
| What you pay | Cost per use | Cost per year |
|---|---|---|
| $30 | $0.02 | $6.00 |
| $60 | $0.05 | $12.00 |
| $100 | $0.08 | $20.00 |
| $150 | $0.12 | $30.00 |
| $200 | $0.15 | $40.00 |
| $300 | $0.23 | $60.00 |
| $400 | $0.31 | $80.00 |
| $500 | $0.38 | $100.00 |
5 uses a week for 5 years is 1300 uses. Both figures are stated assumptions, not measurements — halve the life and every cost per use doubles. We publish the ladder rather than a worked example for one specific product because a price we typed into a sentence would be wrong within a week.
Find the price you are seeing on each tool and subtract the rows. That difference per use is the whole of what you are deciding, and it is a better basis than any adjective. The extended argument is at are expensive hair tools worth it.
Questions people actually ask
What is the best Dyson Airwrap dupe?
On published specifications, the Shark FlexStyle: more wattage, the same two-year warranty, a comparable weight, and it converts to a standalone dryer. It is the only current tool with genuinely comparable published specs.
Is there a cheap Airwrap alternative that actually works?
A hot air brush costs a small fraction and produces smooth, voluminous blowouts very well. It does not wrap hair around a barrel to set a curl, so it is a different tool rather than a cheaper version of the same one.
Are Airwrap dupes worth it?
The Shark leads the Dyson on most published rows and costs considerably less, so on spec sheets the value case is clear. What no spec sheet settles is curl quality and hold, because no manufacturer publishes airflow in comparable units.