so straightening my hair can take a lot of time. Having a wider plate definitely cuts down my styling time, so I can split my hair into a few sections and the styler glides right through.

To get a good idea of how the straighteners perform, two of our beauty experts put them to the test. Elena Chabo has tight ...

and I have a lot of hair, it did take me around 30-plus minutes to do this as I could only wave small sections at a time. I also purposely left the straighteners on to check out whether the ...