The Salon Light weighs marginally less, at 540g versus 650g, and elsewhere in the Salon Light’s favour is that its 3m cable is 80cm longer than that of the Orchid. Read more about the condition New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging is applicable). Beautifully stylish, powerful 2100W hairdryer with advanced airflow technology for ultra-quick drying, even on thicker hair. Unfortunately, like with many of its rivals, this cold shot button is positioned a little awkwardly on the handle so using it for longer than a minute or so started to ache our hand.

For this extra money, the Velvet Orchid has a more powerful motor – 2,300W versus 2,100W – and uses tourmaline-ceramic technology versus regular ceramic. They mention that it's quiet, but it dries their hair remarkably quickly, the nozzle stayed where it was, and that it blow drier well. This hairdryer was advertised as having a narrow nozzle head for smooth drying but in fact its quite a wide nozzle.It touts ionic technology, which is designed to release negative ions towards the positive ions in your wet hair. All – including the BaByliss Velvet Orchid, Diamond and Elegance – have produced similar decibel levels, and without a sound meter, the differences aren’t discernible. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Beautifully stylish powerful 2100W hairdryer with advanced airflow technology for ultra-quick drying even on thicker hair.

Designed with ceramic heat-balancing technology to add shine and a high performance 2100W motor to make blow drying quicker. This one really does seem to help with the frizz issue although the cool function isnt as good as my old one but again does the job brilliantly. Given its similarity to other BaByliss models, we wouldn’t be surprised if a diffuser from a different model was suitable with this one, although we haven’t tested that yet. BaByliss currently sells 12 different models of hair dryer, many with its distinctive curved design and often in a variety of colours. It outperforms some of its more expensive competitors in drying time, smoothness and ease-of-use, plus it’s largely a well-designed piece of kit.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It’s rare for a product to hit the sweet spot in this way, but the 2100 Salon Light is a good-looking, well-designed dryer that out-performs more expensive rivals. Argos Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority as a credit broker (713206), and works exclusively with the lender, Home Retail Group Card Services Limited trading as Argos Card and Argos Financial Services, who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority to provide credit (716148). Compared to its other rivals, however, the Salon Light’s sound level puts it in the middle of the pack. Achieve the perfect blow dry with the Elegance 2100 Hair Dryer from BaByliss, a brand that combines high fashion styling with outstanding quality.