Review on Remington CI41T1 Professional Guided Straightener by Thomas Mertz

I find the straightener a bit short for the average user. Fine, very short. Many problems. When you see it out of the box you go oh and ah it's so beautiful. But in practical terms it makes no sense. It doesn't work like you might be used to with plates that open and close like pliers. This model requires you to "thread" the hair, and depending on how much hair you're threading, the plates are adjustable (aka floating plates). It's pretty uncomfortable. Also, there aren't many instructions on how to use it, so you have to rely on trial and error, which in my case was a complete disaster. The other thing is that you can choose the temperature, you only have two settings to choose from and that in itself is a limitation, although you have to plug your hair in. Additionally, if you want to tuck the ends in and curl them, it's almost impossible to hold the hair by the ends as they will slip out. I didn't manage to get this function to work at all. I don't know, too complicated and not user friendly. Remington makes a lot of great hair straighteners - personally I like it wet or straight. But this one isn't.