Hot Tools 3/8" Gold Marcel Curling Iron HT1106

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To preface this review, I’m a licensed cosmetologist of 7 years and only use Marcel style irons. Hot tools isn’t my favorite brand of Marcel, but they’re decently built and it’s the only one I could find in this barrel size. I bought this for myself to get “big hair”. I love the look of my buns after my hair air dried in tiny braids, but that takes a full 24 hours of drying time after I’ve done the prep work for my hair to dry all the way, so I thought a tiny curling iron was my solution. The reviews were less than stellar, but I figured it was just because of the learning curve with marcels. When you first start using them it’s really hard, but after you learn it’s infinitely easier than a spring clamp iron. Well it turns out that’s not the case, this did not work well as a marcel for long hair. Because your hair is wrapped so tightly around the tiny iron it does not allow the clamp to open properly and slide down. I think it would probably work if you drop the curl after every wrap as you move down the hair shaft, but that’s really difficult to do on yourself with this size iron. I think I would probably be fine on someone else’s hair and it’s perfect for short hair, just not what I wanted it for. I was able to get good results using it as a wand, but you have to take such tiny sections for it to heat properly that I gave up after one row realizing it would take at least 4 hours to do my entire head like that. Now onto my real problem with the product. When it arrived it was covered in a glue like substance so it was super sticky. The handle was completely covered evenly, but the barrel and cord were not so I’m pretty sure it was intentional. I’m not sure in what world you would want your hand covered in stickiness while using a curling iron, but it was terrible. I tried to remove it with rubbing alcohol, wax remover, dish soap and water, and Clorox all purpose cleaner, none of which touched it at all. Luckily my husband had some kind of paint and varnish stripper in his shop that was able to take it off with a good bit of scrubbing, but it was terrible. I was so disappointed I couldn’t try it right out of the box. Not sure if this was a manufacturing error or a grave mistake in product design

Works as it should, for the most part. It's really irritating that there isn't enough tension to use the tip of the iron for small bits of hair. Cord should be longer.

My items were fine but they delivered it to tje wrong address but I was able to get them .

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Wife loves itperfect