Long and Hot.. and Good for your hair..!

Here I go again writing about straighteners, except this time I have lots of nice things to say about them because they are brilliant..! Okay so my last pair of straighteners were a little bit rubbish and burnt my hair into little pieces, but these ones are fabulous and not once have a ended up burning myself on them… Hopefully I won't either.. Touch wood..!

My new straighteners are Remington S2003's..

A little specification;

Looks

The actual straighteners are around 40cm long and have about a 7cm radius. On the box they are pictured with a silver barrel, but both my pair and another pair I have used have a gold coloured barrel with the black soft touch handle. And Gold locking feature. When they first arrive they are open and a little stiff if you wanted to lock them you need to twist the handle really hard. The straighteners do have a little ledge on the back near the start of the cord to rest on any surface to hold the heat away from the surface and obviously not to melt it..!

The box makes a big claim of up to 70% more protection from hair splitting and damage, which for a product that is meant to ply high heat to your hair is a good thing.. I can actually say it does work, my hair is a lot less split now than when I was using my other straighteners, but they aren't perfect as everyone's hair is different. To someone who's hair does not split too much these straighteners could possibly eradicate that problem totally..! They also boast the advantage of being able to provide more shine to the hair itself, another claim I can assure you it does fulfil. The plates are actually ceramic, with tourmaline ionic conditioning, and the Teflon woven fabric over the top, which at the time was exclusive to Remington.

Anyway back to the specifications; depending on the heat setting you actually want for these can vary the time they take to heat, the lowest temperature takes about 20 seconds but on the box it does say 60 seconds. (Mine do it faster than that..!) Only one thing I will say about the heating up process is that if you heat them up with the plates locked together be prepared for a little steam, not enough to set a smoke alarm off, but there is enough, especially on the hottest setting.

As usual the straighteners have an on/off switch that must be held down to switch power on and off, but admittedly the first time I used a pair of these I couldn't turn them on (shame on me I know..!) of course a few months down the line I am more than capable of turning my own straighteners on.. The LED light on these flashes until the plates are the desired heat for your straightening..!

The protective mat and wrap, is a little shall we say 'brown,' not the most attractive colour for the item but never the less it does its job so really I can't complain. However I will say the small pocket that holds the barrel doesn't hold in too much heat be warned pick it up in the middle not at the barrel end of you will end up with sore fingers..!