Cordless straighteners provide you with extra freedom when styling your hair. Take them into the toilet, your bed room, the sitting room – wherever there’s a mirror and good gentle. You don’t want to face close to a socket and you may transfer round with out yanking the plug out of the wall or getting snarled within the twine.

They’re changing into extra extensively accessible and reasonably priced. We’ve beforehand regarded on the Dyson Corrale, which is superbly made – however heavy and expensive.

GHD now additionally makes a cordless straightener. It is lighter and cheaper than the Corrale – however at £299, nonetheless nowhere close to funds pleasant.

On this overview, we’re Revamp’s (not economically named) Progloss Liberate Cordless Ceramic Compact Hair Straightener. It is gentle and very best for travelling. And, at just below £100, it’s essentially the most wallet-friendly possibility we’ve seen.

Design and look

Revamp makes multiple mannequin of cordless straightener. That is the compact model. It’s solely 20.5cm lengthy, and round 4cm by 4cm at its widest level. It’s barely longer than my hand.

It’s gently rounded and tapers in direction of the tip. The form makes it nice to carry, as does its matt silicone end. And it’s extremely gentle. It weighs simply 243g, which is lower than an empty mug.

Within the field, you’ll get the straightener itself, a charger with detachable UK and EU plug adapters, and a heat-resistant journey pouch. The pouch is oddly glittery and it is the one factor concerning the design of the machine itself or the equipment that I am not fully on board with. Nevertheless, its end does allow you to to find it in a bag.

Despite the fact that it has a compact design, Revamp has packed in all of the options you may need. Change the straightener on and the battery life is instantly displayed. The battery proportion – 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% – is indicated by how most of the 4 pinprick blue lights are illuminated.

There’s a big on/off swap. Slide it ahead and you may change the temperature to one in every of three settings: 160°C; 180°C; or 210°C. There’s a show gentle that flashes subsequent to the temperature you’ve chosen and swaps to an unblinking gentle when it is reached.

On the finish of the straightener, there is a swap to lock the plates for security. Its different security function is an automated shutoff perform: it’s going to swap itself off after half an hour – until, in fact, it is already run out of juice by then.

Efficiency

Charging and utilization time is essential to how useful a cordless equipment may be. The Revamp Compact straightener costs shortly from an empty battery: it takes simply three hours. You possibly can see the battery indicator lights illuminating one after the other because it does so.

After you turn it on and select the temperature setting, it heats up in about 1 minute 20 seconds.

Like all rechargeable machine, this does imply there is a little bit of planning concerned. If you wish to take it out with you (with out its charger), you will have to cost it upfront. Nonetheless, it is properly price your time as it is a fraction of the dimensions and weight of a conventional straightener, and there is not any cumbersome twine.

As soon as charged, Revamp estimates that you’re going to get round half an hour of use from the lithium-ion battery. This appeared correct from my time testing it.

I charged the straightener, caught it in a bag and straightened my hair between work and dinner. It might even be useful to take to the gymnasium. I used to be in a position to make use of it about thrice between costs – however that can range relying in your hair kind and whether or not you are utilizing it to clean and magnificence or if you wish to create ramrod-straight hair.

Revamp suggests that individuals with very thick or curly hair might want to use the best temperature setting, though the model advises beginning on the bottom the place doable to guard your hair.  

There are a selection of options to maximise the straightening impact and minimise warmth harm to your hair.

The primary is its ionic know-how. What this implies is that the straightener emits negatively charged ions. This could theoretically create higher outcomes with out the necessity for as a lot damaging warmth. 

The Liberate additionally has floating plates – that’s to say, there’s some give to them, which helps them to grip your hair and straighten it evenly, so that you don’t need to go over it greater than as soon as.

Like the opposite styling instruments in Revamp’s Progloss vary, it’s infused with argan, keratin and coconut oil to shine your hair as you straighten. It’s arduous to say how efficient that is. And, whether it is efficient, how lengthy it’ll final earlier than the oils put on off.

Nevertheless, the instruction booklet warns you to not scratch the plates as this will likely harm the coating, so taking good care of the machine could assist with its longevity.

I discovered it to straighten hair successfully, nevertheless it was definitely not essentially the most highly effective hair straightener I’ve ever used. I’ve shoulder-length, wavy hair and it might be much less efficient on very thick or curly hair.

Actually, the petite measurement of its plates would make straightening very lengthy hair a chore. Its power is as a travel-friendly approach to clean and magnificence hair. When you’ve got very thick or lengthy hair, this could be an incredible styling software to maintain in your bag however you will want a extra highly effective possibility for residence.

How you employ it might additionally make a distinction. I discovered that warmth dissipated from the plates in the event that they had been left open for too lengthy whereas styling. I had higher outcomes once I paused and locked the plates collectively for a short time. 

Value and availability

The Revamp Progloss Liberate Cordless Ceramic Compact Hair Straightener ST-1700 is out there for £99.99 or £100 from numerous retailers, together with Amazon, Very and Revamp itself. However the perfect worth we are able to at the moment discover it for is £79.99 from Boots, though it is out of inventory on the time of writing.

Revamp additionally makes one other cordless straightener. It’s barely cheaper at £79.99 from Amazon nevertheless it’s not as compact or travel-friendly.

Verdict

This teeny tiny straightener is feature-packed and properly designed. Its strengths are its portability and battery life. However its small plates and dissipating warmth imply it is best seen as a journey accent, not your one and solely straightener, particularly if in case you have lengthy, thick hair.

For extra hair styling choices, take a look at our round-ups of the perfect hair straighteners and the perfect hair dryers we have examined.

Specs
Revamp Progloss Liberate cordless compact hair straightener: Specs

Compact cordless hair straighteners

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