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Summary: Different flat irons have grooves to create texture, have a curve to add slight curls or are completely flat, and they can be adjusted from 150 degrees to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Discover the different sizes and shapes of flat irons with professional advice from a hair designer and color specialist in this free video on hair care.
Liz Muller has been a professional hair designer and color specialist since 1985. She is the owner of Liz's Hair Design in Hollywood, Fla., and Lizshairdesign.com. She also travels the...read more
"Hi, I'm Liz Muller from Liz's Hair Design in Hollywood, Florida. In this clip, we're going to discuss flat irons. Here's a flat iron right here that's a wonderful flat iron with some grooves. It's called a TC2 Groove. It gets really hot, up to four-fifty degrees. And you can twirl some curls in there, but it is a flat iron, okay? So you could use it as a curling iron, but it also a flat iron, considered a flat iron. We have our small FHI iron. Really small for short hair, and it also goes up to four-fifty degrees. You can see here that it controls in here, hot, you know, it's off or on and then how hot you want it. It goes from two-fifty to four, or from one-fifty actually, to four-fifty, okay? They have a half an inch, also. This is for a round. Now they have one that's even flatter than this, a square one, but this is the round one that you also can perform some curls with or just completely straighten out and flat iron the hair. And these wonderful irons right here work beautifully on all types of textured hair, okay? We're talk about coarse hair, un-relaxed hair, virgin hair, and so you can work really nicely with all these irons. This has been Liz Muller."
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