A little about me: I have stick straight fine (but thick) asian hair. I've tried heated rollers, doesn't work, I've had perms, they don't last...My hair now is colored (so often I don't really know what my natural hair color is, but at least I know it's not gray), not too overly styled, I only blowdry it if I have client meetings, a little past my shoulders with long layers.I had a photo shoot for my corp mugshot and someone offered to curl my hair to give it some volume, UM YES PLEASE!! VERY MUCH THANK YOU. They used a conair on my hair, the curls lasted literally just enough for the photoshoot (bout an hour) and deflated. I went online and did some research over several different websites and ended up with this. I wanted to buy it from Amazon but needed INSTANT gratification. And by instant, I meant, I went out to the store, picked it up, brought it home and tried it immediately.
Some reviews gave this crappy ratings, but it's a curling iron and with some trial and error, it actually does what I need it to.
(My one regret, should have gotten the 1" barrel instead of the 1 1/4".) You'll see why in a minute.
So for my hair length, this offered curls that were a little bigger than I'd like, but if I mainly started at the tip of the curling iron, it worked on shorter pieces of hair. I'd pin my hair up in little "to be curled" sections and worked each part at a time. I'd hold it for about 20 seconds, let go, hairspray and move to the next piece. It took some getting used to to get the curling iron straight to do the spiral curls but after the 3rd use I got the hang of it.
My hair had to be dry I had put on some smoothing serum (the first time my hair steamed and it wouldn't hold the curls, the second time I waited about 20 minutes before using the curling iron).
I would clamp my hair about 2/3 of the way down, while clamped, let the curling iron slide to about 1/2" from the tip and roll, hold for 20 seconds, move on to the next piece, and did that until all the sections I want were completed.
PROS: This thing heats up FAST, I mean ultra fast. If you plug it in, you better use it ASAP. It gets VERY hot. Very easy to switch settings. Price point is reasonable. The curls did last (if I stuck to the 20 second/section rule), I did it at 5pm, lasted well into 2am (surprising b/c I was in a very humid climate). If I didn't stick to the rule, then it would just add light volume to my hair.
CONS: Don't really notice a difference with the IONs. It takes too long to get the curl that I want to hold. It could be my hair is just not cooperative.
Overall, for this being my first curling iron ownership experience, I am not disappointed. It did as expected.
This curling iron had a hard time clamping my hair (I have fine hair so that might just be that way 4 me). I like that it didn't feel too tight, but I only got it to grip my hair more towards the tip of the curling iron and then I was so annoyed cuz a lot of my hair didn't get the nice spiral curls you're supposed to unless I made sure it was towards the tip-that gave me a lot less room to use on the barrel, too, which caused a lot of limp peices anyway-weird. I just got so annoyed because I couldn't get all of my hair to look spiraly (Lol) especially the left side of my head (I'm right handed and it was already hard enough doing the right side of my head (lol) So, I just had to return it...
PROS:
Heats up fast (about 30-45 seconds), soft grip, still strong without pulling out your hair (except 4 fine hair i don't recommend using this one).. Looks nice..that's it lol...
***I still can't totally hate it cuz it rly could just have been bad for my very fine hairI still got some really good cute spirals, but it just wasn't consistent..Sorry I might have made you indecisive ha ha I am a little myself! It just blew my mind how some strands would be perfect spiral and then some came out totally as if noting was done...weird
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