Though it might sound simple, choosing the right hair straighteners can be a difficult job. With so many different types of high-quality hair straighteners for sale, it can be challenging to figure out which option is best for your hair. With this in mind, we’ve decided to share some advice to help make the process easier. Keep reading for four tips for choosing the perfect hair straightener.
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1. Select the right materials
There are a few options when it comes to the plates for hair straighteners. You need to understand the differences between them so that you can choose the right option for your hair type. The main types are:
- Ceramic plates – This type of straightener delivers even heat distribution and maintains consistently high temperatures. This makes them well suited to fine hair or hair that gets damaged easily. The only downside is that they take longer to heat up.
- Titanium plates – This type maintains extremely high heat levels, making them most effective for thick hair that usually takes forever to straighten. However, the extreme heat can easily become damaging, especially for more delicate hair types.
- Tourmaline plates – Made of special crystals infused with ceramic, tourmaline plates are best suited to taming curly, frizzy, or wavy hair types. They’re still effective at low temperatures, making them ideal if you need to straighten while repairing damaged hair.
2. Choose the right shape
Despite originally also being called ‘flat-irons’, not all the edges of modern straighteners are flat. Many have plates with rounded edges, which makes it easier for you to use them to curl your hair. On the other hand, straighteners with flat edges are better for making your hair as straight as possible. Consider which look you’ll want the most and choose a model with the right type of edge.
3. Consider plate width
Straighteners with wider plates are more useful if you have longer and thicker hair, as they let you gather and straighten more hair in fewer passes. This also helps reduce the damage done by straightening.
Yet if you have short or fine hair, then you’ll want to use narrow plates that apply less heat and mitigate the higher risk of damaging this type of hair. Narrower plates give you the added benefit of being easier to fit into a bag, which is handy if you often need to straighten your hair while on the move.
4. Pick more than one
Different straighteners are designed with different jobs in mind. So, it’s likely that no single straightener will be capable of giving you everything you need from it. Although they can be expensive and take up space in your wardrobe, there’s no reason you shouldn’t get two straighteners if you think you’ll use them both regularly.
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