Product Review: Chill & Hot Ceramic Flat Iron

Product:

Price: 5/5 (Since I bought in Ebay, I got it for $10.99 but the original price for this is $29.99 with free shipping)
Packaging: 4/5 (it's very neat, hot pink case, bubble wraped, with instructions & free small Chi Infusion :D
Result: 4/5 (It heats up quickly, and works to make curl as well, the curl is soft and bouncy, depending on how much hair you do each part, the less hair you use, the curlier it gets)
Overall: 5/5

Application:
Right after I plugged it in, I turned it on by pressing the on/off button, and hold it until there's something show up in the tiny monitor. First it's just showing "Lo" as in Low temperature, so I pressed the + button to increase the heat, the temperature is in Celsius, ranges from 140'C til 200'C, believe me, that's hot enough for your hair.

If you want to curl your hair, you can search them on youtube on how to curl with your flat iron, so many girls made a vid already so I think it'd be old if I made a one LOL. One thing I noticed, you need to be careful since the head gets hot so during the process if you need to touch it, make sure you be more careful.

Love:
- Gets hot REALLY quick (i counted it, only takes 10 secs the most! so I didn't have to wait too long to start)
- Love the double functions
- It's pretty small and light, so it doesn't wear your arms out
- Love the color ^_^
- Love the result, and the best of all,
- LOVE THE PRICE

Loath:
- The fact that the head gets hot, so I couldn't twist the iron as quick as I wanted
- While I'm twisting the iron to make curls, I mistakenly pressed the buttons on the surface couple of times, either the (+) or (-) button LOL so the temperature went high-low-high-low, but it's not a big deal. The on/off button was made specifically to prevent that, I supposed, coz in order to turn on/off you need to click and hold the button a little longer.
- The wire coulda been longer

The finished look (don't mind the no-eyes MOST WANTED pic LOL)
I didn't do it neatly, I have to admit, coz I just wanted to try it out, but I like how it turned out in the end, loose and bouncy :D Not bad, right?

All About Hair

My story:

Believe it or not, I am 22 years old and I've never had a short hair...it's not like I hate short hair on me, sometimes when I got bored I tried fooling around with my hair and made it short by rolled in some parts and honestly I thought I wouldn't look too bad.

My reason is I have this slight wavy and heavy texture of hair, it looks straight now because it's long (my hair weigh down itself LOL) therefore if I cut it short, I'd look like a mushroom -_-' trust me, my sis has the same texture and she has short hair most of the time hehehe

I've never permed my hair, once I had them straightened in salon using a smoothing ion technique since at that times I saw my high school friends had their hair straightened by 'bonding' or whatever you call it, and it damaged their hair in the long run.

So I got them straightened, and surprisingly it lasted almost 2 years ! I had my hair pretty damaged prior to the straightening since I used flat iron almost everyday without even spraying any heat protecting products and I use Pantene shampoo & conditioner which somehow dried up my hair like no other.

Plus, I liked to dye my hair and have some hi-lite here & there, so it was a double-damaged for my hair...That's why ever since I got it straightened I started to pay more attention to my crown and since it is my preference to keep it long, I guess it's my responsibility to maintain it right?

Ok moving on, I would like to list my fav hair products and I dunno if this has been done before but just for fun I'm gonna tag some people in the end :D

Length: Long (almost touch my waist)
Type: Straight (not pin straight tho)
Condition: Unmanageable LOL (pretty dry on the tip)
Color: Brownish Black (from my coloring 3 months ago hehe)

Favorite Shampoo & Conditioner:
~L'oreal Elseve Smooth Intense
(helped my hair recover from its dryness & dullness, made it stronger and smoother. I used it for about a year, yes I fell in love... *note: it was the original line, not the new VIVE Pro)

~Garnier Fructis Sleek & Shine
(loooooove the smell, my bf said it smells like melon & kiwi ^_^ and it's really conditioning & left my hair feels so light)

~John Frieda Brilliant Brunette
(really made my brown color hair pop and boost the shine, smells like coconuty-cocoa hehehe)

~Herbal Essence Long Term Relationship
(this one is my new fav, I was really happy when Clairol came out with this line...I obviously needed something to give more nutritions to my long hair -this is the longest length I have so far-)
Favorite Deep Conditioner:
~L'oreal Elseve Smooth Intense Mask
~L'oreal Elseve Color Vive for Colored Hair Protective Mask
~L'oreal Elseve Nutri Gloss Intesive Shine Mask

yeah I know I'm such a L'oreal sucker for hair, I just loved their hair mask, it actually DID something to my hair, you gotta love the feeling when you know it's working on you :D

Favorite Leave in Conditioner:
~L'oreal Elseve Smooth Intense Serum
(my HG for almost 2 years..really smoothen out my frizzy hair)

~L'oreal Elseve Nutri Gloss Pearl Protein
(bought it in Japan, the serum has some pearl twinkle in it, so my hair was really shiny after I slathered this all over hehehe)

~Frederik Fekkai Glossing Serum
(I got the big tube from Sephora, contained pure Olive Oil, works wonderful, I can use it before and after I blowdry to add shine)

I still use them interchangeably, although I don't really like the Intensive Care Serum for Colored Hair (the very left)

Favorite Protective Heat Spray:
~Aussie Sydney Smooth Heat Protector + Leave in Conditioner Spray
(I love the double jobs :D and it smells like grape!)

~Frederik Fekkai Glossing Serum
(Yup, I use this serum before I use flat/curling iron, it protects and leaves shine at the same time.)

Favorite Curl Booster:
~TRESemme Curl Activator Spray
(Hands down..this is the bomb. I sometimes don't even need curling iron, just spray this around and scrunch my hair til it's dry while doing something else, and when it's fully dry I could get a sexy beach wave :D)

~Paul Mitchell Round Trip
(It works ok, but since this is a liquid form sometimes it can be crunchy when I use too much. It smells great tho)

Favorite Hair Spray:
Nada. I'm not a hair spray person, I do have a Paul Mitchell travel size hair spray but I rarely use it)

Ok so I'm tagging:
Audge
Christiana
Christy
Shawnta
Nikki

Hair Tips:
- Try to switch shampoo & conditioner line once you're done with one bottle, because your hair developed some sort of resistance to the product performance over months of using, so it's not surprising when you feel that the new products work wonders on you but after a while it just stops doing good stuffs. Well, if the new products you try just don't seem to work as good it's only mean one thing, THE PRODUCT SUXXX lol

- For girls (or guys O.0) who straightened their hair permanently, just like I did, when your hair starts growing from your roots, you will notice some sort of "gap" or obvious line where your upper parts will carry your original hair type (curl/wave) and the end is pin straight, so in order to minimize the weird looking, what you can do is trim your ends as much as it grows out from the roots. After a while it will find it's own balance and the contrast would not be as obvious. Plus, trimming your hair is important to prevent split ends.

Hope that helps :D