How Things Work - Hair Straighteners
There are a surprising number of terms for hair straighteners. In addition to this common term they are also known as hair irons, hair tongs, straightening irons and flat irons.
As we know hair straighteners are designed to do exactly that straighten the curls out of your hair. Like most things in life hair goes through it’s own fashion cycle so it is no surprise that hair cycles move from straight to curly so every girl needs both straightening irons and curling irons!
So how did the hair straightener come about? Well according to wikipedia the first person to use heated rods to straighten hair was Marcel Grateu. The design of hair straighteners as we know them today though is credited to Lady Jennifer Schofield who created a hinged two plated iron in 1912.
History lesson over how do they actually work? Well todays hair straightners (the best at least) have ceramic heating elements. This enables them to reach temperature very quickly - under 10 seconds for some makes which can heat up to 450 degrees farenheit. By drawing the hair through the tongs the heat straightens the hair.
Simple really but there is a downside. Repeated use can damage the hair so it is important to buy the best pair of hair straighteners you can afford. By and large there is only one choice if you want the best and that is GHD Hair Straightners.
The best models have ceramic heating elements and aluminium plates coated with a hard ceramic. Cheaper models will usually have different heating elements and the coating will also be of a lower quality. As the coating wears off the damage to hair increases so it is worth spending the extra money.
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