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How to reassure your wife 101 (lemmy.world)
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[–] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (16 children)

Hair iron? Is that another name for hair straighteners?

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 8 months ago* (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Slightly different things I believe actually.

    Like a framing vs finishing hammer.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    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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