ghd curve® soft curl tong Reviews

I was lucky enough to win this in a Beautyheaven survey in early 2015 - thank you once again BH!

Compared with the 2 other curling irons I own, I can tell that this one is of high quality and definitely worthy of the ghd name. The barrel itself is quite smooth - so smooth that if my hair is too soft pre-curl (which it usually is), it falls right out. I might need to rectify that with some texturising spray or a curl spray next time I use it.

One thing I like about this over the 2 other curling wands I own is the sound & light feature. You hear a sound when you turn it on, the white light flashes for a good 10 seconds while the device is heating up & then you hear a sound again once the device is hot enough to use. There's no guesswork needed...and certainly no need to touch a red hot iron to figure it out! (The light also flashes red when there's not enough power to use it. I've seen it in action when I tried to use it on a cruise ship - unfortunately the iron wouldn't work.)

Now for some negatives...

The one thing that majorly bugs me about this device is it's only got 1 temperature setting of 180C. As someone who has fine hair (albeit a lot of it), this high temperature has the potential to fry my hair, which it has on occasion when I've forgotten extra heat protectant post blow-dry. Whilst I fully admit that I am completely un-coordinated when it comes to curling my hair, it's taken several attempts over a period of time to get my hair to look the way I want it to with this and even then, it's still not quite how I want it to turn out.

Would I have bought this had I not won it? No, definitely not. Perhaps with more practise & watching some tutorials I'll get the hang of it, but I think I'll be sticking to getting curls done by a hairdresser until then.