Product Review: Corioliss Hair Iron

I’ve used hair straighteners as long as I can remember. Growing up in south Florida with frizzy wavy hair, I had no choice but to become a flat iron fanatic. Sometime during my teens I discovered ceramic hair irons, and at some point my mom got me my first Corioliss Profix Ceramic Tourmaline Straightening Iron. In pink.

Somehow applying all this heat actually made my hair softer, silkier, even stronger. All my friends spent hundreds of dollars on heat protection products and still fried their hair. Since I generally avoid unnecessary gunk in my hair, I was only too happy to keep straightening my hair with my Corioliss flat iron and not waste my hard-earned cash on additional products.

Because I was gifted this hair straightener, I missed the sales pitch. But as it turns out, making my hair better is exactly what it’s supposed to do. The ceramic plates use infrared technology to heat your hair from the inside out, sealing in moisture, preventing hair from over-drying, and generally improving your hair’s condition. I don’t know if it’s because of Corioliss, getting older, moving up north, or a combination of it all, but my hair today is much more manageable than it was ten or fifteen years ago.

Years passed, and my lovely pink flat iron continued to work perfectly. Even when I dropped it multiple times or when I burnt off a little bit of the long plastic cord. Ooops.

But when I dropped it again, and the ceramic plates came off, along with some of the plastic keeping the plates in place, I decided enough was enough. Time to bite the bullet and pay the $250 for a new one. Grateful is not a strong enough word to describe how I felt when I found it on Amazon for $60. Phew!

And seriously? Kudos to Corioliss for knowing better than to mess with a good thing. My new iron is almost identical to my old one. It just looks, well, newer.

Disclosure: I have no relationship with Corioliss – like most of my favorite brands, they’ve never heard of me. I just love their flat irons. And why would you waste money on the famous CHI if you don’t have to?