HOT TOOLS (2018 MODEL) Professional Artist 24K Gold Curling Iron | Lengthy Lasting, Outlined Curls (3/4 in)

Great hot tool
This tool is awesome! Used it in Italy (with a converter) and it was great! Heats up nicely and does wonders with my hair!

Reviewing four (4) years later, not exactly going strong, not exactly limping along
Purchased 6/2010, reviewed 6/2014:Well, better late than never. I bought this curling iron for my wife, after reading online reviews. She LOVED this curling iron. She liked that it heated up fast, opened and closed well, gripped her hair when she wanted it to, and let go when it was supposed to.I couldn’t say exactly when it went from “love” to less than that. But it started probably around the two year mark, after being used on average, about once per week. It started to not heat up really well, and I think that there had been a flaw of some kind in the power cord, at the point where the cord attaches to the swivel connection on the iron. There was no visible problem, anywhere on the cord. It eventually got to the point where it didn’t heat at all. That was probably in this last year, so it was a good 2-3 years old, I would say.So this last winter, about 2/2014, I took the thing apart, and couldn’t find a thing wrong. I put it back together and kind of told my wife that it was her imagination–I don’t know, I think I was just too busy at the time to be bothered. Then when I saw her a few weeks later using another old curling iron, and I asked her why she wasn’t using the her favorite, and she said it just doesn’t work anymore. So I figured maybe she wasn’t making it up :)I took it apart again, and put an ohm meter on the cord part, and it was not good. I figured it unlikely that it was in the actual cord. So I started to cut into the thick part of the cord where it had a reinforced curve in it, and was able to get down to where I found that there must have been a break there. I cut that part of the cord out, soldered the cord onto the connectors that had been inside that molded reinforced curve, and put all of it back together with epoxy as something of a new homemade connection to reinforce it, and she was off and running again.Then in just the last few months, probably when the curling iron was about 3 1/2 years old, my wife started complaining that the curling iron was not gripping her hair well enough, and was slipping, and also that it was making a squeaking sound whenever she opened and closed the pincers–don’t know if that’s the right term. I am also not sure I understand another comment that she made, though, that she has trouble getting her hair out of it when she finds it is slipping.Anyway, all of that doesn’t matter. I just looked at the spring area and could see that up underneath where the spring is, the point that contacts the pincer just below the thumb knob, there is a tiny roller that helps the spring to slide quietly back and forth, that was off center, and it also wasn’t rolling anymore. It was mostly sliding. So I adjusted it to the side a little, and liberally sprayed some dry lubricant on it. The action works better, and it doesn’t make any noise, so we will have to wait until she uses it again to see if it works.So as of today 6/16/2014, the iron is still going after approximately 200+ uses, albeit with some required tweaking to keep it out of the garbage. I would like to believe that the power cord issue that we had was a rare defect, and that most people never run into that. I’m thinking that most people could use this iron over 200 times and probably just be starting to have a squeaky spring issue, and that’s about it. If I were to have to start this product search again, I would definitely take a chance again on this iron, and hope that we didn’t get the cord defect in that reinforced bend near the swivel.For the money, and the use that we’ve had with this, I think it’s a great deal. I actually just realized that we probably have used it many more than 200 times, as we have four girls aged 12 and under as well, but they generally don’t get their hair curled, although on some special occasions, several of them do.Details on my star rating:Why did I ding this by one star? Well, although I would buy it again in a second, Amazon’s star system equates four stars with a “like it” and five stars as a “love it.” I could imagine some engineering tweaks to their design that would eliminate the issues we had. Also, I saw the inside of it when I was working on it, and although the parts were adequate, I would be cheating a curling iron with better quality parts that deserved the five stars, if I were to give this one five.As I’ve said in other reviews that I’ve written, to me, either four or five stars is a “buy with confidence” in my book. I wouldn’t buy anything again with 1-2 stars on my scale, and a middle-of-the-road three star review by me would be “your mileage may vary” and would be a 50/50 shot.

Love everything about it!
It came packaged nicely. Right on time as predicted. Many settings to chose from. For long hair it is the perfect dimension. Once curled. The curls stay for at least 3 days. Easy to handle. Gets cold fast after use.

Me llegó el producto con el cable qué va a hacia la luz cortado!!!

The item is not working. Used it once, and now it’s not heating.

Luvd!