Curved Flat Iron Reviews – Rounded Edge and Curved Plate Hair Straighteners

Hair styling appears to be an easy task as there are many hot tools available in different shapes and sizes like; brush straightener, flat iron, curler, etc. Some can function to just iron the hair and give it a fizzy less hair look and some can give a curly look. But, the curved flat iron have all the combined characteristics of flat iron and curling iron. Its also known as rounded flat iron because of its rounded edges and plates on top barrel that makes it useful for curling hair. And it can also straight hair as well like a normal flat iron, and pass through smoothly because of its beveled/tapered edges. Curved hair straighteners comes with different features, temperatures, and in different materials and sizes to achieve various purposes accordingly.

Difference Between Curved and Straight Flat Iron

The most prominent difference in between simple and curved flat irons is of shape. Simple hair straighteners can’t be used for curling whereas the other can be used for that purpose as well. The difference is due to curved in the plate, barrel, and the tapered edges of the iron that ranges from 40°to 60°. And the more the angulation the more is the curling effect.

Advantages of Curved Flat Iron

• Due to its choice of material, looks are maintained with less damage to hair due to ionic technology used in it in combination with tapered plates. Smoothness also adds on if tourmaline is used. Babyliss prima 3100 is a classical example of an iron having 1 inch of wide plates with rounded edges and equipped with nano technology to curve and straight hairs simultaneously without causing damage.
• Beveled edges gives it more handling than other hair irons and also more hairs are done in one go.
• They are mostly quick in there action and heat distribution is even.
• It gives more volume to hair that does not depend on the type or texture of hair due to its curvy edges just like hot rollers effect to the hair.
• There are more options of styling like straightening the hair, volume boosting, mild wavy look, beach waves, or curls depending on the occasion.

Features

Material Selection

There are different materials used for its manufacturing but two of the main elements used are titanium or ceramic. If it’s made of ceramic in which infrared heat is used that keeps the moisture and oil in the hair to give the shiny look and it is more suitable for thin fine hairs whereas titanium distributes the heat equally , more durability and also uses infrared rays just like ceramic and are more reliable and effective for thick hairs. Nano titanium, ceramic tourmaline and titanium tourmaline are also used.

Importance of Curled Edges

Tapered edges at an angle of less than 30° will act more like a straightening iron whereas those of more the 60 ° will be working more like a curling iron.

They are mostly of ionic technology in the way that there are free electron or can be negative ions that can break the water molecules of wet hair and dry them easily but still the material used in its curled plates has the property of keeping bit of moisture that is necessary to maintain hair health and maintain their shine.

Technical Details

• For easy use the perimeter is around 1 to 1.5 inch and its bar is 0.3 to 0.5 inch broad.
• Available in different shapes like can be equalized (levelled up), can be sharp from some sides (steep) or can be sloppy (inclined) from some areas.
• They have crooked or rounded of sides so that less burning to skin occurs if it touches the skin and handling of hair is more easy in this way.
• Are slightly angulated from the edges that form ranges from 15 to 70° and it gives the advantage of easy use.