Remington PROluxe You Adaptive Hair Straighteners - Intelligent Straightener with StyleAdapt Heat Technolgy and Advanced Diamond Ceramic Coating, S9880

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This hair straightener has a function that sets the temperature to 185C, which the brand says helps create healthy and shiny hair minus the guilt from daily styling. The hot plates are ceramic-coated and “ultra-smooth” to avoid snagging and are supposed to deliver 5x smoother results than your standard ceramic straighteners. This means they’re also the ideal shape for getting to grips with how to curl hair with a straightener, as not everyone wants poker-straight hair every day. The sensors can read the hair temperature up to 2,500 times in a single styling session, but neither the current temperature (nor any changes to the temperature) are shown on the display. The first time I used them, it took two slow passes through each section of hair to properly smooth and straighten, but by the second use, it only took one go.

This, combined with the fact that the brand recommends temperatures of between 210°C-230°C for thick hair, makes me confident that I was using one of the highest temperatures to tame my unruly mane. They’re satisfyingly weighty (I never trust a straightener that feels flimsy) but not so heavy that they’d leave your arms aching by the time you’re straightening the top layer of your hair.As I do use heat regularly, I want to keep split ends to a minimum so tend to use my straighteners on a hotter setting after washing, and then on a cooler one for touch-ups in between. Everyone’s hair is unique; it can be long, short, fine, thick, curly or straight, but there’s one thing we all have in common - wanting to create that salon-quality look that lasts all day.

This is hotter than I would usually go (for reference, my GHD Platinum+ hair straightener is set at 185°C) and I haven’t yet tested for long enough to see how this would impact the health of my hair. A beauty obsessive, Jess has tried everything from cryotherapy to chemical peels (minus the Samantha in Sex and The City-worthy redness) and interviewed experts including Jo Malone and Trinny Woodall.For extra pizazz, they’re infused with diamond particles too, which makes for a smoother glide through the hair. That’s why the PROluxe You Adaptive Straightener has Intelligent StyleAdapt Technology that learns about your hair and adapts the heat to your unique styling needs. What’s so brilliant about the Remington Proluxe You Adaptive Straightener’s StyleAdapt technology is that it does the hard part for you. We’re all busy people, and not everyone has the time to fiddle around with the heat settings on their straightener every morning.

I was impressed with the results: shiny hair that felt soft and silky with just a small amount of static. It felt much hotter from the second go too, and I can only assume this is because the straightener had learned that it needed to bring out the big guns to whip my hair into shape. Remington’s Proluxe You Adapt Straighteners heat up in an impressive 15 seconds, and I started on the curliest parts of my hair in the StyleAdapt1 mode. When styling, sometimes it’s difficult to know what the best temperature setting or technique is for creating your look, because what works for someone else doesn’t always work for you.

It is a catch-22 situation, as I would need to pass over each section of hair multiple times using these straighteners at lower temperatures, compared to just one pass at a higher heat setting. It’s Advanced Diamond Ceramic Coating has 10x More Ceramic

A final thing to note here is that the straighteners come with a handy two-in-one protective storage sleeve and styling mat, and the plates can be locked together when not in use. Although the straighteners don’t display the temperature during StyleAdapt mode, my hair felt hot to the touch and the irons sizzled a little on my heat protection spray. Its Intelligent StyleAdapt™ Technology learns, adapts and personalises the heat to your hairs’ own styling needs – so you can achieve All Day Lasting* salon-quality results that are tailored to you. I haven’t owned a pair of Remington straighteners for a long time, but their latest launch piqued my interest.The sensor feeds the temperature readings into an Intelligent Microprocessor, and after each pass the LED Indicator spins as it adjusts the heat of the plates to the ideal temperature for your hair.