Conair SS6NCS Straight Styles Steam Straightener

by Conair

Product Features

• Converts wavy, curly hair to straight-and-smooth with gentle steam
• Removable toothed attachment pulls hair taut for greater straightening
• Quickly reaches full steam power
• Professional-quality appliance
• 9 inches long overall, with 4-1/4-inch opening for hair

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

This electric device styles wavy or curly hair straight and smooth in minutes by producing a gentle steam mist. For extra straightening power, there's a removable toothed attachment that pulls hair taut during the steaming process. This professional-quality appliance is simple to operate: just fill the water tank and plug the power cord into a wall socket. It quickly reaches full steam power, so there's no long waiting if the dinner date or wedding reception is imminent. Overall, the steam straightener measures 9 inches long and has a 4-1/4-inch opening for hair. That's compact enough to pack for travel or for a purse. --Fred Brack

Product Description

Features:

9 inches long overall, with 4-1/4-inch opening for hair

Converts wavy, curly hair to straight-and-smooth with gentle steam

Removable toothed attachment pulls hair taut for greater straightening

Quickly reaches full steam power

Professional-quality appliance

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00000JGVX
• UPC: 074108139924
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,921 in Beauty (See Top 100 in Beauty)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars steam+heat= bad for your hair...., September 24, 2001

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Kyla (Vancouver, BC, CANADA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conair SS6NCS Straight Styles Steam Straightener (Health and Beauty)

when i bought this thing, i didnt know this, but my hairdresser told me to stop using it because if you use a hot flat iron like this one when your hair has moisture in it it fries your hair. it didnt even work that well for me. my hair is pretty straight but the front goes wavy and frizzy. i would use it, then 10 minutes later its wavy and frizzy again. also it has no automatic off so i've left if on all day a couple times. the little canister that you put the water in on the end has a felt tipped wick and that part got burnt to the heating element. didnt smell good and its not very safe. i've tried using it without the water canister attached and it doesnt work well because the heated surface is too small in width. i liked the comb part though, i pulls your hair taught so it doent slip through the flat parts.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I live by it, May 14, 2003

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Catherine Rodery "Cat" (Millbrae, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Conair SS6NCS Straight Styles Steam Straightener (Health and Beauty)

I don't always straighten my hair, but when I do I have always found this a rather easy way to do it. It heats up rather quickly so you can prep your hair rather easily while waiting for it to warm up. True, it doesn't open very wide and you can't get huge strips of hair in there at a time, but that is the point. If you've ever had your hair straightened with an iron at a salon, you'll notice that they always use smaller sections of hair at a time. It works the best that way heating and straightening the entire section, instead of putting too much hair in and only straightening the outer parts of the big mass of hair.

The added steam feature is definitly a plus. It gives your hair an added bit of shine, and at the same time prevents you from totally toasting your hair. Though of course you should not take this to mean that straightening your hair should be product free. Frizz ease and clones similiar to it work pretty well in moderate amounts on dry hair. Just get it coated lightly on the section before you start straightening it and not only will it help to protect that hair but it will also help it stay straighter once done. Afterwords a light mist of some hair spray might be adviseable if you have hair that tends to have a mind of its own, like mine. I usually don't use hair spray for distaste to the way it feels in my hair, and that is not a big problem though as at most I jsut get a slight wave in a few spots and it's barely an issue in comparison to it going all the way back to curly.

If you tend to have the time on your hair to straighten it, this is definitly the product for you. If not, and you're looking for some quick fix, I wouldn't reccomend it, but then again straightening hair has never been something quick to be accopmlished, so I doubt you'll find anything that will get it done faster.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Really, Really Bad, March 19, 2004

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Andrea Cortes-Comerer (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Conair SS6NCS Straight Styles Steam Straightener (Health and Beauty)

I wish I could give this zero stars. It is the least effective straightener I have ever used. I was intrigued by the "steam" functions, but I don't really think they do anything. Plus, it is impossible to get your hair in between the darn plates. I have fine and kind of thing hair, and even I found it frustrating to use. They do not open wide enough. It's not, as one 5 star (!!!???) reviewer claims, that the point is not to put a lot of hair into the straightener. The problem is that since the plates open parallel to each other (instead of in a hinge-like manner) and not very wide, it is hard to slip the actual hair into the space. Do NOT buy this product.
Another conair straightener is very good: Conair Straight Styles, Professional Straightening Iron CS15RCS. My roomate had one, and I liked it so much I bought one, too.