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Summary: Confused by all the hair styling tools on the market these days? Learn all about tourmaline thermal styling tools from an expert in this free hair care video.
Amelia Smith has been styling all types of hair for more than 10 years. She has experience in cutting, styling and coloring men's, women's and children's hair. Smith currently provides...read more
"Hi! I'm Amelia and on behalf of expertvillage.com, I'll be talking to you about using thermal styling tools. Tourmaline is a stone that's found in Asia. It's usually crushed and heated. What it does is it produces FIR infrared and that produces more ions. You're going to get probably a double dose of ions basically. That's going to be better for your hair. It's going to create less frizz. It's going to create more shine. Again, that moisture content is going to be absorbed by the hair instead of being evaporated. Imagine water on a pan that's sizzling. That will be a traditional method of flat iron and blow drying your hair, whereas now, it evaporates and the hair actually absorbs it. Tourmaline is a great extra that you can get in flat irons. You can get them now in blow dryers as well, and I do highly recommend it. If you can find something that's both ceramic, Ionic, and Tourmaline, there you've got your triple threat and you can't beat it."
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