I ditched my expensive hair straighteners for this £21 pair and my hair has never been softer
Up until September this year, I’d owned the same pair of hair straighteners for 12 long years. They’d travelled the world with me, prepped me for endless parties and tamed my naturally frizzy hair (thanks Mum) on the daily. FYI: my locks are not the sort that can do without daily lashings of heat.
It was a rainy day in September when my trusty (really expensive) straighteners finally gave up. They bleeped twice, made a bit of a popping sound and ceased to turn on. Forgive me for being dramatic, but throwing them away kind of felt like I was losing an arm.
I had just returned from a week-long sun-soaked holiday in Marrakech, so England felt depressing enough as it was without having to worry about my hair looking like crap. To make matters worse, said day fell at the end of the month when my funds were seriously dwindling. Pay day was a faint finish line in the distance which didn’t seem to be getting any closer – so splashing £100 on another pair from insert very popular hair tool brand here? It was just not an option.
So, off to Boots I dashed – hair wild and mood even wilder. Everything on the shelf cost upwards of £50 (still not cheap enough), except for one pair.
They were Remington’s Ceramic 230 Straighteners, priced at a mere £21.99. Of course they couldn’t be any good, I thought. Nothing that cheap would have the power to tame my tresses.
Oh how wrong I was.
From the first use, I realised that Remington’s bargain straighteners were endlessly better than my previous pair (which cost four times as much). This is firstly because they made my hair feel so soft, like… softer than it has felt in years. Disclaimer: nothing else in my hair routine changed.
These days, I feel as though I’ve used a heat protectant spray and the world’s best hair mask, yet the only time either of those touch my hair is when the hairdresser applies them for me. Oops.
Of course, the new-found glossiness of my locks might have a little something to do with the fact that my new tool doesn’t frazzle my hair within an inch of its life. Unlike my more expensive straighteners, I can adjust the temperature using a dial which sits between the plates.
Even on a lower setting, de-frizzing is a much quicker process than it ever was before. The irons slide through my hair effortlessly, always making it feel lightweight and never making it static. Frizzies and flyaways are a thing of the past… And did I mention the heat-proof mat you also get thrown in for the price? So. Handy.
Nothing in life is perfect, of course, but these straighteners come pretty close. To be honest, the only problem with them is that they probably won’t last as long as my last ones did. But at the price of four pints down my local? I’m not really too bothered.
