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.
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Gallery17 PhotosSo, 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.
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