Heat styling is a necessary evil in the world of hairstyles. With sleight of hand, curl and volume can be added to stick-straight hair with rollers or curling iron action, and wavy or curly hair can miraculously be straightened with a solid blow out and flat iron finessing.
And when you style your hair with these essential tools you expect them to make your job easier, right? Well, that's why we've rounded up of the best of the best straighteners, curling irons, blow dryers, rollers, diffusers, etc. according to our readers.
To boot, here are some hair care tips to help you maintain healthy hair no matter how many times you manipulate your God-given texture with heat:
Tip 1: Use quality shampoo and conditioner for your hair type.
Tip 3: Use a heat-protecting hair serum such as L'Oréal Serie Expert Absolut Repair Cellular Serum, £10.99 or KMS FreeShape Quick Blow Dry 200ml, £10.99 before and after blow-drying.
Tip 4: If you are going to use a flat iron, let hair air dry the night before or use the lowest setting on your blow dryer if you didn't plan ahead.
Tip 5: When you straighten your hair, select the lowest temperature possible that will still give you the straightening effect you desire, so you don't fry your strands.
Tip 6: Style as desired using Goldwell Lagoom Jam Gel, £6.99, very pliable NON DRYING or STICKY after-Gel. It gives you the ability to lift and sculpture the hair without having to use hair spray to keep it in place. It's as though, it has memory retention! I love it walking on a windy Fall day, a few shakes of my head, poof, my hair bounces back to the way I styled it to. Surprised in deed of a good gel!!
