Love this curling iron! The longer barrel allows me to curl my hair more quickly. There are many heat settings to choose from. There is a turbo button that makes it heat up faster. Easy to use and a great price.
This works shockingly well. I had a much more expensive one and a quarter barrel curling iron that I bought five or six years ago and it just wasn’t holding the curls at all. I thought I needed to try a smaller barrel so that when the curls relaxed, it was more of what I was looking for from the one and a quarter inch. I think that one was also supposedly a longer barrel for long hair. Well, this 1 inch long barrel was so much easier to use on my extremely long hair. First of all the clamp held the first little bit of hair at the very ends so well and it didn’t slip out, and the curls it created with absolutely no product stayed so tight all day. And they looked very, very shiny. It really helped that the barrel was truly longer, so I could curl more hair a single time around it all the way up to the roots. I used the turbo option. Meaning you first push the on off button and then you push the turbo button and I think you get the highest heat. I was a little worried because I know there is a top amount of heat that you should ever use on hair and I wasn’t sure if this was higher. But based on how my hair looks and feels having now used it a second time I think the turbo level of heat will be great for regular use.
For such a low price compared to other options, I’m really glad I read the reviews here and tried the Conair. I think my only qualm with it might be that the cord seems a little flimsy and that always feels a little worrisome when you’re dealing with something that heats up. But the cord itself and the plug did not heat up at all, just to be clear. It’s just that my other curling iron has a much more substantial cord and plug.
I like this so much that I am getting a one and a quarter barrel long version. I will probably still use this one a bit around the face for a tighter curl but overall I think all I needed was a really good 1.25 barrel that will hold the curl, rather than a smaller barrel. Looking forward to trying the Conair 1.25 size when it comes.
