Remington Wet 2 Straight 2" Wide Plate Wet/Dry Ceramic Hair Straightening Iron with Tourmaline

Comment: I've had this straightener for around 6 months now, and was happy the first few times I used it. I've noticed though that it takes a long, LONG time to kind of straighten my thick, stubborn, frizzy hair. Within a few hours my hair was right back where it was before. I've tried numerous hair products to go along with the straightener, I've tried blow-drying and not blow-drying, wet and dry. The results and inevitably dissappointing, especially considering that my hair-stylist can straighten my hair beautifully with her chi and the results last well into the next day. I'm currently looking for a better quality flat iron. If you have easy hair, this straightener will work well for you. For stubborn to impossible hair like mine, I would look elsewhere.

Comment: I couldn't live without this flat iron. I'm on my second one and the price is really good for a quality flat iron.

Comment: I've got strange mixed Asian/Caucasian hair that's really long, fine, soft, and wavy, but also golden blonde (of the porous and dull variety). I'm generally lazy so when necessary I usually blow dry my hair for the 45 minutes it takes to dry it completely, but it's never straight or shiny. My sister irons her shiny brunette hair that I always envied as a kid, so about six months ago I decided that I'd buy a flat iron and try it out, but never got around to the actual purchase. One day while at Target buying toothpaste I thought I saw someone I knew but didn't wish to encounter, so I ran off to hide in another aisle. Standing before a wall of flat irons, I recalled my decision to buy one and ended up with this Wet-to-Straight. I grabbed some heat protectant, and when the coast was clear, I got my toothpaste and left.

The next day, after I showered, I sat around for about 20 minutes with a towel on my head, combed out the tangled mass, applied my heat protectant, and started quickly running pretty big chunks of hair through the iron, which I'd set at 25/wet. Looking back on it, I don't know how I didn't end up burning myself into oblivion. I just kept my head tilted so my ear faced the floor and pulled my hair downward, alternating quick strokes with the iron and my giant hairbrush. A few strands caught here and there, but I regularly slam my long hair in doors and roll it up in car windows, so this was no big deal to me. As with blow-drying, my hair got weird and wavy/frizzy when it was half-way dry, but as I kept going, rapidly brushing/ironing huge chunks of my hair, it turned out really straight, soft, and smooth, but not at all shiny (this is as good as it gets for me). I couldn't reach my roots, but since my hair is very long and there is a lot of it, it weighed itself down and dried just fine. I think it took about 25 minutes total, compared to the 45 minutes it takes to blow dry. Later that day I walked outside in the humidity, into a frigid air-conditioned mall, and then got caught in light rain while running to my car. My hair didn't frizz or curl or move at all in response to these various environmental conditions. It remained limp and lifeless, which is what I was going for.

I don't really know how the temperature of my blow dryer compares to that of this flat iron, so I can only guess that I'm doing similar rather than worse damage to my hair by only using the flat iron rather than both the blow dryer and the iron. I think that if used regularly it would be a good idea to deep condition on a weekly basis.

Comment: I had this product previously. It's great so I bought one for my daughter! It does the job and it's inexpensive.

Comment: I love it especially on the mornings when i'm too lazy to dry my hair! I can make my hair not look like crap and not have to waste time drying my hair! Also works great for regular straightener use! Best of both worlds!