albbi comments on How to reassure your wife 101

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 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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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 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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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 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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[–] snooggums@piefed.world 3 points 8 months 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.

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[–] noseatbelt@piefed.ca 5 points 8 months ago

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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[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 5 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

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‽

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

If you use a curling iron backwards, you burn your hands

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