Expert Hair Care Reviews & Advice for Every Hair Type
Somewhere between “I’ll just blow-dry it straight” and “right, that’s it, I’m booking a keratin treatment,” there’s a small window where the correct straightener changes everything. GHD Platinum Plus lives in that window. It’s the styler that keeps popping up in hairdresser recommendations, in comment sections under “what straighteners do you actually use,” and in … Read more
Somewhere between your bathroom mirror and a salon chair sits a gap that professional hair straighteners are supposed to close. What is professional hair straighteners, really, in a market stuffed with “salon” branding on every box? In short: a 40-60 word answer — tools built with medical-grade or aircraft-grade plate materials (titanium, high-density ceramic, or … Read more
Here’s a scenario every frequent flyer knows too well: you land in Bangkok, plug in your trusty straightener from home, and thirty seconds later there’s a pop, a puff of smoke, and a very expensive paperweight sitting on the hotel bathroom counter. The best travel straighteners solve this exact problem — they’re compact, dual voltage … Read more
There’s a particular kind of chaos that comes with trying to tame a fringe using straighteners built for someone with hip-length hair. You end up pinching your ear, singeing your fingertips, or giving up entirely and reaching for a bobby pin. This is exactly the gap mini hair straighteners were built to fill, and in … Read more
Here’s a confession every thick-haired person has made at least once: standing in front of the mirror at half past seven in the morning, straightener in hand, wondering why a single pass never seems to be enough. If that’s you, the problem probably isn’t your technique. It’s your plates. Narrow plates were built for fine, … Read more
There is a particular kind of despair that only thick, coarse hair understands: you glide a straightener through a section, it looks flawless for exactly four seconds, and then it springs back into its natural shape like nothing happened. If that sounds familiar, the plates you are using are probably the problem, not your technique. … Read more
Stand in any beauty aisle for more than thirty seconds and you’ll hear the same argument playing out between two people picking up boxes and squinting at the small print: ceramic vs titanium straighteners, round however-many-thousand. It sounds like a technical squabble, but it isn’t really about metallurgy at all — it’s about your Tuesday … Read more
Ceramic hair straighteners are the flat irons with heating plates made from, or coated in, a clay-based ceramic material that heats gradually and spreads that heat evenly across the surface, which is precisely why your fringe doesn’t fry while the rest of your hair is still lukewarm. If you’ve ever dragged a cheap metal iron … Read more
Stand in the hair-tools aisle of any department store and you’ll spot the same two names glaring at each other from opposite shelves: GHD and Cloud Nine. It’s a rivalry that goes deeper than marketing, too — Cloud Nine was founded by Robert Powls, the very same person who created GHD, which is why the … Read more
Here’s a confession every hairdresser has heard a thousand times: “I bought cheap straighteners once and they ruined my hair.” Fair enough — some of them do. But that’s not really a price problem, it’s a plates-and-heat-control problem, and plenty of hair straighteners under £50 get both of those things right without asking you to … Read more