Review - Hairart H3000 Flat Iron

Hello again!

Normally I would make a post every day because I just love blogging so much, but I recently was faced with more depression problems which brought my mood down, which in turn prevented me from blogging. 

Anyways, with that aside I am feeling much better now and today I will be doing a review on the straightener that I have been using for the past two and a half years now! 

As you can see from this picture to the left hand side of this page, this straightener has been good to me for over two and a half years! Which is incredible, because the very first straightener that I've had completely sucked because it was a cheap Revlon baby straightener meant for short hair which was great at the time, because I was growing my hair out. Then, after that I bought the Avanti flat iron which... wasn't good... and then the CHI flat iron which I absolutely LOVED, but it broke within 6 months :( I wasn't happy especially since it costs me about $200 just for the straightener which was supposedly the best in the market.  Apparently it wasn't the best for me because it broke.

So then, from that day on I bought a new flat iron which is my current hair art one! I love it a lot! It was also $200 in Canadian Dollars too, and I honestly believe that it is well worth the price! It is part ceramic and part tourmaline which is great when it comes to the frizzies and the damage.

Now that I have told you about this straightener, I want to tell you more about ceramic and tourmaline.

For all who do not know about ceramic and tourmaline in straighteners now days is that ceramic retains its heat well and doesn't fluctuate as much compared to copper or other metal straighteners. Yes, metal used to be put in flat irons and they wreaked havoc on people with fine hair or on anyone's hair in that matter. 

While I was on Folica.com, I checked out the ceramic straighteners and on one straightener that uses ceramic plating, here are the benefits listed below!

Ceramic Heat

• Moist ceramic heat with ceramic plates and coils.
• Ceramic will maintain even temperature all the times.
• Ceramic will produce negative ions.
• Seals the cuticle.
• Locks in hair color and retards fading.
• Ceramic heat will ensure the penetration of the silk molecules to the hair.
• Traditional copper coil can cause more damage and dry the hair.

As you can see, ceramic plating is best for when it comes to straightening your hair. I you have a ceramic/tourmaline straightener like mine, then you have the best of both worlds!

Tourmaline Ceramic Hair Straightener's distributes heat across the entire surface evenly, retains heat more efficiently, and eliminates damaging hot spots. Ceramic emits a natural source of negative ions and far infrared heat that helps your hair 

1. Preserve more moisture within the hair shaft

2. Eliminates frizz and close the cuticle to create smooth and shiny hair

3. Causes less damage to the hair cuticle during styling

As you can see from above, tourmaline straighteners basically have the same properties as ceramic straighteners. Tourmaline is a crystal, while ceramic is not. Both say that they will eliminate frizz and cause less damage, and preserve more moisture but that will only be true IF you use a good heat protectant. As you all know, I use either the Nywele Argan Oil, or the Moroccanoil Oil Treatment as my heat protectant. It does a great job with keeping the moisture in my hair, and when I straighten it I don't feel like my hair is super dry because I know that using a good heat protectant and a good straightener will help protect my hair from a lot of damage. 

That said, with all the good things about this straightener said and done, you must ALWAYS get a trim! I cut my hair every 1-2 months prior to colouring my hair again because with those damaged, dry, dead ends, I want to keep my ends in a good healthy condition. Damaged ends = not pretty. 

Alrighty! Now it's time for the BAD side of this straightener!

I truly love this straightener, I really do. BUT, there are tons of cons that I have to say about this straightener. 

This straightener, is NOT dual voltage. I figured that out last year when I brought this with me to Italy and I plugged it into my voltage adapter thing, and when I had the adapter set on low, it took FOREVER to heat up. Yet, when I set the voltage adapter to high it started vibrating. I immediately thought to myself "Wtf?! This is supposed to be a straightener! Not a vibrator!" So I was extremely scared because it was vibrating! But at least it heated up and I was able to straighten my hair, so as long as I got my hair straightened without it exploding or blowing up on me I felt okay. Just by the time I got to Rome, I just gave up. i didn't want to have my hand vibrating every time I was straightening my hair so I basically just left it natural. 

ANOTHER con about this straightener is that it doesn't keep your hair straight in the Italian humidity. As you all know, Italy is a peninsula that extends out into the center of the Mediterranean Sea, and where there is a large body of water, there is a large amount of moisture. Even with my hair oils, the moisture still made my hair not stay straight for long. 

That was a hard core bust for me, but over all this product is awesome! I use it almost everyday when I don't blow dry my hair straight with a paddle brush, and definitely when I am letting my hair air dry because my hair isn't naturally pin straight. It used to be... 


If you bought this straightener in North America, don't expect it to work well for you when you travel to a different country that doesn't have 120 voltage. 







Anyways, without anymore of my rants on how bad this straightener was to me in Italy, I give this straightener a 4/5 only because it has been so good to me for over 2 years in Canada.