Finding the Best Straightener Brands is quite a tall order these days. All the unique brands promise to provide the excellence in hair styling and straightening products. Of course, it can be quite overwhelming because of the many choices you have. Lets sort through the main difference between quality brands, to help you decide what is best for yourself.
Here is a list of the Hair Straightener brands that are out there in the market now in these days.
Sedu, Solia, Bion, CHI, Maxiglide, BaByliss, HAI, Hot Tools, Wigo, Conair, UNIL, Superstar, FHI, Global Beauty, GHD, Hairart T3, Magic Ionic, Kenta, Strat, Remington, Revlon, Corioliss, Bio Ionic, Metropolis, Silk, Andis, ERGO, Paul Mitchell, Vidal Sassoon, Croc, Amika, TS-2., Alterna, InfraShine, InStyle , T3 Tourmaline, Big Sexy & Andis.
I will be honest i have not tested and tried every single one of them, But i have tried most of the common ones. From my experience I think GHD hair straighteners take out the market, with their high quality stylers.
Ceramic Hair Straighteners – These can be very effective hair straighteners. However they can become very hot and have hotspots as they are heated by a copper coil which does not always diffuse well along the plate. It depends on the quality of the ceramic and the styler in general.Most stylers from the GHD range, are extremely well implemented products, and work extremely well
Ceramic and tourmaline – These are the newer type ceramic straighteners which have a layer of “tourmaline”, which is actually a semi precious mineral. Tourmaline intensifies the straightening process by producing negative ions and infrared heat which help to calm and smooth hair and straighten it with less damage than ceramic alone. There are many top brands with this combination.
Ceramic, tourmaline and kiyoseki – this is a much newer combination incorporating a Japanese mineral which has a high level of ionics and infrared, many times more than tourmaline. This is designed to provide the ultimate ionic/infrared benefit and avoid too much 
external heat being applied to hair, thus less damage. So far, at the time of writing, there is only one straightener available using this mineral technology.
Steam and comb ceramic and tourmaline – This particular type of straightening is an adaptation of the ceramic and tourmaline straightener which uses steam to seal in moisture with the plates. The combing elements can be removed normally if desired. the combs are devised to guide the hair through the steam plates without tangling.
Wet to Dry straighteners – These straighteners are designed to dry and style at the same time. They usually require a lot more exposure to the heated plates to do this and is a much more time consuming process. If you have shorter hair they can be useful, but for much longer hair it is probably not the best hair straightener for your type of hair and you would be advised to leave hair to dry or to gently dry it with a hair drier first. – The best straightener brands in my opinion are not the type that you have to use for a longer period. So this type is not my personal preference.
Obviously the best straightener brands you chose will be one that both suits and your budget and your hair styling routine. For heavy use, i.e. daily styling it may be a good idea to choose a very up to date model with more emphasis on low damage to hair as you will be using it a lot. For infrequent or occasional use, this is not quite so important.
