• lemonhead2@lemmy.worldOP
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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 …

    • Albbi@piefed.ca
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      7 hours ago

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

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        7 hours ago

        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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          7 hours ago

          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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            7 hours ago

            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.

        • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
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          7 hours ago

          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‽