Remington S6600 Stylist Multi Style Advanced Ceramic Styler

This is a quality product with ceramic plates. It heats up really rapidly 20-30 seconds with a flashing blue light indicating its heating up and being constant when ready for use. There is dial inside the device to vary the temperature. A brief 4 page instruction booklet (English only) recommends lower temp settings for finer hair. The product has a small storage bag.

The product is quite heavy weighing in at around 300g, and has a relatively strong spring which keeps it in the open postion as shown in the photo. The product can be locked closed when not in use. The cable freely swivels at the base. Its only recommended to leave the product on for 30 mins, however it shuts down after 60 mins if no buttons are pressed. (A power socket with an auto cut off would be a useful addition when styling in a hurry.) To straighten the hair it is slimply sandwiched between the plates and slowly drawn through. Very good results were obtained on naturally straight long hair of 12+inches. A very good degree of straightening was obtained on very curly mid length (6inch) hair. The outside black plastic part of the flat irons (curl bars) can be moved out from the main body of the product to increase the width and help with styling curls. Here the hair is positioned close to the scalp the product turned through 180Deg and then slowly drawn through the irons. There are three positions for the curl bar making the head progressively wider. These are recomoneded for small, medium and large loose curls.

Why does it not get 5 stars: The models in the instructions have dark hair on a dark back ground so it tricky to tell what is meant by small, medium etc. Curls were easy to produce with a little practice on long hair, not so easy on shorter hair. The pink outside parts of the product are metal and get very hot during use. It would be helpful if the outside tips were covered in plastic to allow the end to be supported during use. The black plastic curl bars dont get hot, it is not recommeded and they can't easily be moved once the product it hot. Hence you can't easily style two different curl widths with out cooling the product. Small is subjective however I would not recommend the product if you want small ringlet type curls of approximately a fingers width. The other downsides are the temperature wheel. The product booklet recommends 150-180Deg for fine hair, up to 200-210 Deg C for thick hair, however the temperature is not related to the temp wheel which is marked 'L' (one assumes low?) then 5 to 30. There is no tick mark on the body near the wheel so its not clear where the wheels should be for the lowest and highest temps. The product instructions do not really help in this respect.
I would not recomend the procuct for any one with a weak grip due to the weight and spring strength esp if curls rather than straightening is required. Once you have gripped the hair between the irons you need to be able to hold the device comfortably until the hair lenth has been treated. If you change your grip to get comfortable its likely the hair will pop out and you'll have to staet again.

Having seen the long and ridiculous adverts for the Remington Stylist Multi-Style on TV I loved the idea, but expected that the actual product would be nothing like as good as it seemed. However, I've been looking for something to make my hair more exciting and I found numerous good reviews online (including lots on Amazon) so decided to stop being so skeptical and try it out. I wish I had remained skeptical. Yes it straightens, but if I just wanted straighteners I would have bought a pair. This product does not curl! The very best I could get out of it after a good hour's worth of attempts was a slight wave, and only when used on the supposed 'tight curl' setting. The looser curl setting did absolutely nothing. I have very manageable hair in terms of length and thickness and while it is straight when blow dried, it can go into waves/curls when I let it dry naturally and give it a bit of scrunching! The fact that this appliance couldn't even do that is shocking! The complete absence of results was enough to turn me off but the styler is also difficult to use, as to turn the barrel as she does in the ad (I watched them online to make sure I wasn't just using the wrong technique) you have to put your fingers on the pink metal part and black extendable part, both of which heat up nearly as much as the plates. So while trying to rotate the styler you are also trying to avoid putting your finger on metal that is heating up to 210 degrees. Adding to the already risky situation, the two plates themselves are very unstable and slip from side to side when you are trying to rotate the styler, my fingers almost ended up between the plates several times. I am extremely disappointed in this product and wouldn't even recommend it to anyone as a straighter on principle.

I found these straighteners a dream to use for actual straightening (although I'm frightened by the thought that I am basically destroying my hair for vanity's sake), but I do have some strong concerns about a few features, as detailed below:

Pros:
- They heat up in almost no time at all
- Swivelly base means you don't end up with tangled wires and strangle yourself (although they do, in fact, give you enough wire to hang yourself with)
- Comes with a brilliantly useful heatproof carry-pouch
- Lightweight (my old ones weigh a ton) and therefore travel-easy
- Smoooooth ceramic plates (I think those are pretty standard these days, though, right?)

Cons:
- The temperature settings are ambiguous: the manual says it has thirty settings, and provides a temperature guide for different hair-types. However, it fails to match the temperature to a setting, making it a matter of guesswork, i.e. if fine hair = 110 degrees, what is the corresponding setting? 2? 20? 30?
- Further, there are no markings around the dial to indicate where exactly your setting is being set - again, confusing. If I set it *so*, is it on 1 or 15 or 30, or another number altogether?
- A simple LCD display showing the temperature would solve both of problems detailed above. I think the '30 settings' thing is a gimmick.