Lightweight, quiet professional hair dryers: comfort and performance
Professional hairdressers know that their working positions sometimes put huge demands on their bodies. The strain on the chest, arms and forearms that results from holding the tools and accessories of their profession over long – and repeated – periods makes them especially prone to developing musculoskeletal disorders, for example.
What’s more, the sound environment of a hairdressing salon may exceed the threshold above which the risk of developing hearing disorders has been proven in the event of continuous exposure.
For professionals, choosing a lightweight, quiet hair dryer therefore meets goals in terms of prevention, well beyond the issue of user friendliness – which is also very significant. Here is Velecta® Paris’s short guide to the different models of professional hair dryer that combine a light touch and quietness without sacrificing performance.
Lightweight, quiet hair dryers: profile and characteristics
Professional hair dryers are generally more powerful and more efficient than the hair dryers you find in large retail stores. This is because, on the one hand, they make more demands in terms of the drying time and, on the other, it is down to the need to be able to regulate the speed and temperature as accurately as possible to create sophisticated hairstyles.
The challenge for professionals is to work with hair dryers capable of delivering a minimum power of 1700 W, but which are still light and quiet enough not to disturb or inconvenience anyone in the course of their work.
How do you recognise a lightweight, quiet hair dryer?
When we talk about lightweight hair dryers, we mean equipment that weighs around (or under) 500 g. Some models of professional hair dryer weigh less than 350 g: we call these ultra-lightweight dryers.
A quiet hair dryer is a device that operates at maximum of 70 dBA, i.e. a level that allows a conversation to take place between two people talking face-to-face.
This means that a lightweight, quiet professional hair dryer combines a weight of under 500 g and a maximum volume of 70 dBA while delivering a drying power of 1700 watts minimum.
The advantages of a quiet, lightweight hair dryer
Continuous exposure to 80 dBA is likely to cause hearing problems such as whistling or buzzing. However, a conventional hair dryer operates at 80 dBA on average – so it’s easy to understand how important it is for professionals to ensure that the noise level of the appliances they use for up to several hours a day on a daily basis stays well beneath this threshold.
A quiet hair dryer, which operates at a maximum volume below 72 dBA, protects them from any risk of developing hearing problems.
In the same way, using a lightweight hair dryer avoids the accumulated muscle tension that can lead to the onset of persistent pain in the chest and arms. For professional hairdressers, using a hair dryer weighing under 500 g – or even 400 g – is a very good guarantee of preventing the onset of musculoskeletal disorders.
A hair dryer that is quiet and lightweight is, therefore, particularly recommended for professional hairdressers and especially anyone with the highest risk factors.
A lightweight, quiet hair dryer – but that is also powerful – is questionably an asset for the well-being of professional hairdressers, but it’s above all a must-have for preventing the onset of occupational disorders.
The Velecta® Paris range of lightweight, quiet professional hair dryers
Velecta® Paris’s hair dryers are engineered, designed and manufactured always with an eye to meet the expectations and needs of professional hairdressers and private users. Most of the brand's hair dryers therefore weigh under or slightly over 500 g, and none has a noise level that exceeds 72 dBA.
Some models, however, are remarkably lightweight and quiet, while others even incorporate the very latest technology to appear in the world of hair dryers: the ionic function that delivers ultra-protective drying and an incomparable shine.
Here is a brief review of the brand’s lightweight, quiet professional hair dryers, and a close-up of the featherweights that tip the balance.
The featherweight – but low-key – star: ICONIC TGR 1.7
Formerly known as the TGR 3600 XS, ICONIC TGR 1.7 is a high-performance package in a delicate frame: With an output of 1740 watts, weighing 335 g and with a volume of only 68 dBA when operating at full power, this device – which has obtained MSD (musculoskeletal disorders) Prevention certification – has won over numerous professionals in France and abroad.
In the family of lightweight, quiet hair dryers, it has risen to the rank of icon and is today a benchmark piece of kit.
The quietest lightweight: ORIGINAL SILENCE 1.7 i
The appropriately named ORIGINAL SILENCE 1.7i – the big brother of ICONIC TGR 1.7 – is one of the quietest, most lightweight and top-performing hair dryers on the market. With an output of 1740 watts for a weight of only 400 g, it achieves a remarkable feat: it boasts a maximum volume of only 62 dBA, i.e. the same level as a normal conversation between two people, a record for such a high-performance hair dryer!
The icing on the cake? It also incorporates ionic technology, which, thanks to the emission of negative ions projected onto the hair during drying, eliminates the static electricity that is automatically generated on contact with heat. The hair comes out shinier and easier to comb. An all-new blow drying experience without making any noise about it.
Powerful, quiet and lightweight: OPTIMUM SOLUTION
2000 W, 450 g and 66 dBA with integrated ionic function: look no further for the top combination of power, silence and a light touch – you’ve already found it with OPTIMUM SOLUTION. This is one of Velecta® Paris’s classic models, packed full of technology and top performance, versatile par excellence, and which has been a big hit with so many professionals since it was first released.
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