Hot Tools Professional Ceramic Titanium Professional Curling Iron

If I had rated this iron right when I got it, it would have been a 5 star - it gets super hot (which I need with curly, thick hair) and gets hot FAST. It's also silky smooth and really glides through your hair - love the cord feature which allows for ease-of-movement. The downside is that since I've had it (1-2 months) the purple coating is totally coming off...and I'd suspect in another few months it will be really bad. I'm not sure if this is do to the product that I wear on my hair - might be - but I can't give it 5 stars when the coating started coming off immediately. Also, the iron doesn't have auto-shut off. Granted, it didn't advertise that it did, but I haven't purchased an iron in the past several years that DIDN'T have this feature so I took for granted that it did. If the coating wasn't coming off and it had auto-shut off, it'd be the best iron ever! That being said, I love the iron so much that I would buy another one when the coating comes off - for the money,...Read more

I bought 2 curling irons in the time span of about a little over a year. The ceramic purple coating eventually burns off and fries your hair worse than a regular metal hot tools iron. The coating doesnt last long, if it didn't burn off the coating, this would be a good iron.

I did purchase Hot Tools 1.5" Curling Iron but not thru amazon unfortunately. Instead, I went to a local salon/beauty supply store in my area and paid over $60 for it (because I wanted it right away).

My hair is thick and course but choosing the right temperature setting on HT Curling Iron made all the difference. I used a higher setting due to my thick coarse and naturally curly hair. After washing my hair, conditioning, and towel drying it I used hair products in my hair that kept my hair from frizzing and that would leave it shiny and mosturized. Like: "beyond straight" and "Fantasia IC Hair Serum". I then dried my hair with a blow dryer using the cool air setting. The next day before leaving the house I used my HT curling iron and the results turned out wonderfully. My hair kept the curls all day, and the shine and softness for three days after. So this curling iron is not just any typical curling iron that will fry, dry the ends of my hair, and a day after feels and...Read more