Goody Heat Wave Creator Styling Iron

I'm not the kind of girl who curls her hair every day; my hair is thin and stick-straight and doesn't do much. Usually I just blow dry it quickly in the mornings, but on special occasions I'll take the time to curl it, using tons of hairspray to make the curls stay. Usually my hair doesn't hold a curl very well, and I didn't know what to expect of the Wave Creator. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I was able to curl all of my long hair, and especially by how long the curl stayed! I went out on a humid night, danced, and even put my hair up for a while, and by the end of the night my hair was still wavy and full. I didn't even use any hairspray, just a leave-in volumizing spray.One of my favorite things about this curling iron is the variety of curls and looks you can do. If you hold your hair tightly wound around the barrel, the curls are very small and a bit kinky, but if you just loosely wrap a larger piece of hair around it for a few seconds, the hair comes out beautifully wavy and subtle. I can do my entire head of hair--which reaches almost all the way down my back--in about ten minutes.I never reach for my curlers or my curling iron anymore--the Wave Creator has taken their places!

I read and watched TONS of reviews on this. I was torn between this and one of the Bedhead Curlipops or their Rock n Roller which is similar to this one. This one was a good price and overall had great reviews. This is my first clipless type curling iron. I'm not skilled with traditional ones because I can't seem to curl without getting the crimps at the end, so I wanted to try one of these. The videos make it look so easy and it probably is IF your hair is longer (which I probably should've figured but I was hopeful). My hair is lightly layered and the longest layer falls at about my collarbone (~1-1 1/2 past my shoulders in the back). I couldn't use this like it was intended by holding it upside down and wrapping the hair around. My hair isn't remotely long enough to accomplish that without burning the hell out of my hand, wrist, arm, and face. Burns aren't cute or fun. Or beachy. So I have to use this like you would the traditional curling iron, holding the iron facing up and using the small clip on the base to hold the ends and twist hair around the barrel (which is nice that this is one that has a clip so that girls with shorter hair CAN use it). It provides pretty nice looking waves/curls but not anything I couldn't do with a flat iron (where I have less chance of burning myself). I'll continue to practice, but I think this will go into the retirement hair appliance bin until my hair grows out a little more and I try it again. Long haired ladies will probably have better luck and get the look that this is designed to give.

Note: I have medium-length, very thick, naturally wavy layered hair.I regret missing the return window on this; it took me about a month to try it out between traveling/life craziness. Anyways, I burned myself a lot with the itty-bitty clamp, and the ends of my hair turned out weirdly stick-straight compared to the "curl." I use that term lightly, because I'm not sure what exactly this thing creates... but it's not the expected wavy curl. I'd say some sort of mutant cousin. It's definitely not a precision instrument.It does heat up nicely, and the swivel handle works well. If I had fine, stick-straight hair, it'd probably work better (just a guess). I will keep trying it, just to see if I can get more comfortable with it, and thus have better results. I'll update this if I do. But save yourself some effort; Go to bed with braided wet hair, and run a flat iron over the braids before you take them out in the morning. You'll achieve the same effect this wand is attempting to do, with much less hassle.

Almost daily compliments on my hair -from friends and strangers -since I started using this curling iron!I have long, sort of wavy hair that doesn't usually hold curls very well and gets frizzy when its humid outside.With this curling iron I don't need any styling products - even hairspray- and the curls will stay looking great all day!The odd looking design makes perfect loose 'beachy' waves.Iron gets very hot, so it doesn't take long (less than 5 mins!) to curl all my hair.Small clip that holds hair at the end is a little tricky to get used to at first, but still much easier to use than the irons with no clip that you wrap the hair around (seriously - i don't want to have to wear heat resistant gloves just to curl my hair!)Definitely recommended.

This curling iron doesn't have enough reviews. I recently cut my hair, and the techniques I used to get the "messy" curls weren't working on my new length, so I invested in this since it was the best priced curling iron with the little clip feature which is what I wanted. I opened the box immediately and tried it out, my hair is super straight and a bit on the thick side, and it's my first time using a wand style iron, and I LOVED it!!!! It heats quickly and the tip is cool to the touch, I found I get better curls by twisting it a bit to get all the way to the ends and better volume at top. I seriously am thinking of buying a second one to have as back up.

I've tried to curl my hair with about 6 different curling irons (2 regular barrel irons, the Instyler Rotating Curling Iron (it's heavy so your arms will hurt after awhile), 2 clampless irons and my Chi flat iron) with ok results when I decided to give this one a try.I have to admit that I'm kind of a novice at curling my hair but this one actually created the loose beachy waves I was going for and didn't take as long as the other irons I used. I like that it has a clamp to hold the ends because when I was trying to use the clampless wands, I was constantly burning myself (didn't use the heat gloves that came with the clampless irons because they felt weird).I only wished that this came in a bigger barrel size hence the 4 stars instead of 5.