13 Best Hair Straighteners We Tested (2025) | WIRED

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Amika the Confidante Moisture Maintenance Titanium Flat Iron for $150: This is an effectual titanium robust with a plan akin to our Best for Thick Hair pick, the Sutra IR2, close down to its infrared strip. It has a hefty, high-quality feel, and it made abbreviated enactment of curls and frizz. However, the Sutra heats faster and keeps hairsbreadth creaseless longer, and the titanium runner-up, the Kristen Ess 3-in-1 ($68), does a comparable occupation for little than fractional the price.

Dyson Corrale for $500: Former WIRED reviewer Medea Giordano loved the Dyson Corrale (8/10, WIRED Recommends), prevention for the price. Medea reported that it makes the idiosyncratic consciousness fancy, similar each Dyson tools thin to do, and its flexing plates rapidly straighten hairsbreadth with little heat—they curve astir the hair, avoiding the splaying-out effect and uneven vigor organisation that plague different level irons. Still, she thought it had its flaws for a $500 hairsbreadth straightener. It tin beryllium utilized without a cord, but the artillery beingness was excessively abbreviated to straighten Medea's full caput of curly hair. The onboard artillery besides makes it rather heavy.

Chi Vibes connected the Edge Curved Edge Hairstyling Iron for $110: I’m a longtime Chi devotee, having owned and loved the archetypal ceramic level robust until it broke aft a decade. So I admit, I was excited to zhuzh up my bath antagonistic with this metallic-rainbow mentation from Chi’s Vibes line. The 1- oregon 1.5-inch ceramic plates (I tested the latter) really curve astir the sides of the tool, allowing the idiosyncratic to get person to the roots of their hair, arsenic good arsenic make crease-free waves if desired. While this diagnostic did really bash an awesome occupation of tamping down my flyaways (and I appreciated the unusually agelong 11-foot cord), I felt similar this deficiency of buffer betwixt a 415-degree Fahrenheit aboveground and my scalp, face, and ears was excessively large of a pain hazard to usage regularly.

Bondi Boost Aloe-Plated Flat Iron for $80: This robust has ceramic-coated tourmaline plates infused with aloe powder, which “add radiance and frizz power each clip you swipe down strands," according to the company. It's besides unsocial successful that it heats to 480 degrees Fahrenheit—hotter than immoderate different robust we've tested and beyond the capabilities of astir vigor protectant sprays. The plates didn't look oregon consciousness immoderate antithetic to maine than emblematic ceramic plates, and the integrative operation felt lightweight and somewhat flimsy for this terms point. My hairsbreadth besides poofed up again alternatively rapidly aft use. This robust does person galore devoted fans online, though, truthful your acquisition whitethorn vary.

L’ange Le Duo Airflow Styler for $69: This level robust features a clasp akin to a curling iron. Most level robust plates enactment apart, and request to beryllium pushed unneurotic to use, portion this is the opposite. It works conscionable arsenic good arsenic immoderate different iron, and the clasp plan and the rounded edges marque it easier to curl too. The existent gully present is the aerial vents that blast retired chill aerial to fastener your benignant in. The instrumentality turns connected automatically, but there's a fastener to crook it off. (Just to clarify, it's not meant to adust your hair—you volition not beryllium blessed if you effort that.) —Medea Giordano

Tymo Ring Hair Straightener Comb for $60: I’d seen the Tymo Ring each implicit societal media for years earlier trying it, and the hold was worthy it. It's similar a accepted blistery comb and a straightening brushwood successful one, but you tin get person to your roots without burning yourself than you tin with a comb, due to the fact that there's an outer ammunition covering the blistery teeth. Straightening brushes aren't usually a one-stop store for my hair, and that was the lawsuit here. I did request to spell implicit my hairsbreadth with a level robust to creaseless retired immoderate of the puffiness near behind, but the Tymo Ring took the curl close retired quickly—I didn't person to spell implicit sections much than erstwhile oregon twice. —Brenda Stolyar

Sleek'e for $84 and Kosa for $195: These irons are fundamentally the aforesaid tool. Sleek'e confirmed that they are successful information made by the aforesaid manufacturer, which is not uncommon. The Kosa felt a small lighter, but neither seemed amended oregon worse to use. They some emit ions and person a portion of infrared lights down the mediate of 1 of the plates, which are expected to assistance administer vigor evenly and successful a mode that won't harm hair. —Medea Giordano

Brilliance New York Smooth Pro Ceramic Flat Iron for $45: WIRED reviewer and chap curly miss Louryn Strampe swears by this hairsbreadth straightener. She impulse-bought it via a Groupon woody successful 2014 and inactive consistently reaches for it, contempt having tried respective much level irons since—she adjacent prefers it implicit the Dyson Corrale. It's mislaid immoderate of its vigor consistency implicit the years, and the plates occasionally snag her hair, but it inactive leaves her unruly curls sleek and shiny, and astir important, straight. —Medea Giordano

FoxyBae Tres Sleek Flat Iron for $40: This fund titanium level robust does a reasonably decent occupation astatine straightening thick, curly hairsbreadth for the price, though its flimsy-feeling construction, agelong heat-up time, and difficult-to-maneuver, 1.75-inch-wide plates marque it little appealing than our apical fund pick, the Conair Infiniti Pro, above.

Revlon Easy Heat Precision Flat Iron for $30: Another entry-level level iron, this deep-pink exemplary with easy-read somesthesia settings feels heavier and much costly than it is. I besides loved that it heats up successful 30 seconds—one-third the clip of astir irons successful its terms category. However, I was amazed however ineffective the 1-inch plates were connected my curls, adjacent astatine the iron's maximum temp of 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Plus, my (barely) straightened hairsbreadth poofed backmost up again wrong minutes.