• renrenPDX@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Generic term for hair styling device with a direct contact heating element that’s not a hair dryer/blower. It’s not always obvious that the unit is on except for a small light, and can remain hot after use and a source for small burns to the body.

      So straightener/curling iron (that doesn’t use air like Dyson etc).

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      8 hours ago

      idk what it is. it’s got two flat metal plates that get hot. and u put ur hair through it …

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        Curling iron or hair straightener are the two terms I know for those things.

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          Aren’t those two different pieces of equipment? (Or at least two different parts you swap in a very basic piece of equipment?)

          Those are two completely opposite changes, and the format the iron would have to have for each seems completely incompatible.

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            They are different tools, but fun fact, you can make curls or waves with a straightener depending on technique. A curling iron will only do curls.

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            Boys…

            Nowadays, almost every hair iron has attachments for both straightening (with it a big clamp with two flat plates) and curling (various diameters of metal rod).

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              What about the wavy ones, not as tight as a crisper but similar.

              My wife has separate ones for each because the one she tried where you can change out were mediocre at everything.

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            Yeah, curling iron is a tube with a curved plate that wraps part way around it.

            Straightener is two flat plates.

            … Or maybe you just use it backwards and it does the opposite‽

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      Personally, without the ‘hair’ context, I would have checked the iron that you use with an ironing board to get wrinkles out of clothes.

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        Framing hammer gives more “grip” when striking a nail.

        Finishing hammer won’t mess up a delicate surface when struck.

        They both drive a nail but used at different times. Could you just use one hammer? Sure, but it is harder to drive in large nails with a finishing hammer and a framing hammer will mess up your trim. You’ll mess up your finishing hammer if you strike framing nails with a finishing hammer.

        A flat iron or a hairstyling iron is a specific tool to straighten hair

        A “hair straightener” could be a flat hairstyling iron but it could also be something that doesn’t “iron” to straighten. It encompasses more.