![]() ![]() There were more than 4,700 reviews as of this writing, and 71 percent of them were five-star (and they didn’t look sketchy to me). In case the mere existence of this article doesn’t make this point clear, this purchase was so, so worth it. But I didn’t give much thought to throwing this Remington Pro straightener in my Amazon Prime Now cart in August, along with toilet paper and aluminum foil with more than 1,500 positive reviews at the time bolstered by “before” and “after” pictures of women with all types of hair, plus a just-under-$20 price tag, I figured the risk was worth it. When my most recent fancy straightener, one I swiped from work when the brand sent it to an editor who no longer worked here, died this past May, I waffled on buying the same one. (Again, absolutely zero real-world problems.) My mom managed to secure a GhD model right before I left that served me well for several years. When it died days before I left for college, I panicked and cried. It vanquished my natural waves that puberty had just triggered, and to a 15-year-old in flat-iron-obsessed 2005 who had absolutely zero real-world problems, this was a godsend. My induction into the world of fancy hair straighteners came via Chi - via my mom, via her hairdresser who would order them at wholesale price and sell them to her without a markup. You can also see what we’re up to by signing up here. The archives will remain available here for new stories, head over to Vox.com, where our staff is covering consumer culture for The Goods by Vox. Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years. ![]()
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