Dyson’s Plum and Copper Hair Tools Take Their Palette From Kyawthuite

Dyson’s Plum and Copper collection makes colour the shared design feature across five hair tools. The finish draws on Kyawthuite, a reddish-orange mineral known from a single natural specimen, and brings red plum, peach copper and ash ginger tones to devices with different forms and functions. Dyson says it developed the palette with the festive period in mind.

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A mineral reference translated into colour

The reference is unusually specific. Kyawthuite was discovered near Mogok, Myanmar, and the only known natural specimen was cut into a 1.61-carat gem. The mineral contains bismuth, antimony and oxygen. The International Mineralogical Association recognized it as a new mineral in 2015, and the specimen is held by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

That scarcity gives the collection’s colour story a tangible point of origin. The design translates a reddish-orange mineral into a broader palette: plum supplies the deeper red, copper adds a warm metallic note, and ash ginger introduces a softer, muted tone. Across the lineup, those hues give familiar product shapes a coordinated seasonal treatment. The visual change is the edition’s defining move; Dyson says the tools retain the styling features and airflow technologies of their standard counterparts.

Kyawthuite is a geological one-off, rather than simply a scarce material in a wide catalogue. That distinction makes it a vivid colour reference, even as the collection uses the mineral as inspiration rather than as a material in the tools themselves.

Five tools, five different workflows

The finish appears on the Dyson Airwrap Co-anda 2x multi-styler and dryer, Supersonic r hair dryer, Airstrait dryer and straightener, Airwrap i.d. multi-styler and dryer, and Supersonic Nural hair dryer. The range brings together multi-styling, drying and straightening products, so the shared palette links tools that serve different routines.

The Airwrap Co-anda 2x sits at the top of the range at US$749.99 in the US for the Straight+Wavy configuration. Its Hyperdymium 2 motor, which Dyson says delivers twice the air pressure of its predecessor, is intended to support faster drying and easier wrapping. The tool is designed for six functions: drying, curling, waving, straightening, smoothing and volumizing. Dyson continues to frame styling without extreme heat as part of its approach.

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The Supersonic r focuses on the dryer’s physical form. At US$549.99 on Dyson’s US site in Plum and Copper, it is described as 30% smaller and 20% lighter than the original Supersonic. Its attachments use RFID sensors to adjust temperature and airflow automatically when connected, linking the accessory to the device’s settings.

For wet-to-straight styling, the US$499.99 Airstrait uses airflow instead of hot plates to dry and straighten hair. Dyson says it can reduce combined drying and styling time by an average of 25%, while aiming to limit breakage and help preserve hair strength across different hair types. That makes the tool’s main design distinction a change in how it applies heat and shapes hair, rather than an added attachment system.

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Connected controls and sensor-based adjustments

The Airwrap i.d., listed at US$649.99 in the new finish, adds Bluetooth connectivity. Users can create a personalized hair profile, then automate parts of the curling sequence, including wrapping, drying and setting curls, at the push of a button. The connected features make this model distinct from the Co-anda 2x, whose description centers on its motor and multi-styling functions.

The US$449.99 Supersonic Nural uses sensors to track the distance between the dryer and the scalp, adjusting heat to maintain a more consistent temperature. It can also remember preferred settings for different attachments, reducing the need to set airflow and heat again when changing them.

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For designers, the collection’s clearest idea is the way one palette can unify products without making their individual purposes harder to read. Each tool keeps its established role, while plum, copper and ginger give the range a common visual identity. The mineral story gives those colours a specific source; the device descriptions show how the collection’s functional differences still shape the lineup.

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