InStyler Rotating Hot Iron Hair Styler

My mother in law gave me this one year for Christmas- to me it seemed very gimmicky and I would never have purchased it myself. It was very tricky and awkward to use. My hair got tangled and stuck multiple times to the point where I had a panic attack, it was so stuck and it was hot and I thought my hair would burn. Upon giving it another more careful go I found it took forever to straighten or even just smooth out my hair - it was never completely straight and it seemed like so much work for the same results I could get with a hairdryer and irons in half the time. Just another gimmicky appliance that takes up too much cupboard space. I have since passed it on to a friend.

My aunty bought this for herself and it came with another spare one for free. Watching the ad, it seemed easy to use,but when I tried it out I found that it didn't straighten the roots of my hair as I would like it to be. It left a burn mark on the side of my ears and I wasn't aware of it. The noise that it made was loud for me and quite annoying.

I would not recommend this.

I have super thick, curly hair and the Instyler did absolutely nothing except make my hair a huge, frizzy mess. I tried it several times, blowdrying and brushing my hair out first, not brushing my hair out, adding product, not adding product etc. but it all ended the same way - a head full of knots and frizz. I'm not sure how this would work on other hair types, but it's not something I would recommend.

I was so excited when I saw the informercial for this product. It looked relatively easy to use, didn't just straighten but also curled; but most importantly would work on African American hair so I thought it should definitely work on my thick wavy island hair.

I was to be disappointed.

I used it a few times to work on my technique but the end result was never the "as seen on TV result" .My hair didn't look shiny or smooth or flat in the traditional hair straightener sense.By the time I had burnt my forehead trying to get the bits I had at the top I had had enough and gave up on it.

I have this in the purple colour and although the colour looked pretty and styly, that is pretty much where the excitement ended.

I found it really hard to work with and I felt it didn't do that great a job. It seemed to pull my hair and the finish was not that great. That was trying to use the straightening technique.

As for trying to curl my hair, that was so not going to happen. I found it awkward and just couldn't seem to get it to look like the so called advertisements that raved about the product.

I didn't find it user friendly and got hot pretty quick.

Such a shame as I had such high hopes for this hair styler.

I believed the hype many moons ago and purchased the Instyler because I was curious and the models on TV made it look so easy. At the time I had shoulder length hair but quite fine and at times dry.

The Instyler did my hair no favours, in fact I think it burnt my hair - and it definitely caused a few burns to the hand from the awkward way of holding it and getting my hair into the device. Even with the protection cage I would also manage to burn my ear!

The rotating curler if it catches your hair at the wrong angle pulls and tugs, and brings back childhood memories of my mother untangling my hair before school. I don't know if it was the enthusiastic way it the cylinder rotates against the brush, or the fact that my hair was fine, but there was always hair left in the brush after use - which after a while was a real concern.

I could get something that resembled a curl from the Instyler - but was more like a kink of a wave, and I could never master straightening with it at all. It was just lots of fluffy hair. It never replaced my straighteners for straightening my hair.

I never tried the hottest heat setting, for fear for my hair and my ears, and the lowest setting was okay but still seemed quite hot. What I did notice, was the styles when I did manage something suitable for public viewing never really held for long through the day.

Needless to say I wasn't impressed and suspect it's better suited to those with longer hair and a higher pain threshold than me.....so now my Instyler sits on the top shelf of my wardrobe, wondering if it will ever see daylight again. Which it likely won't.

I brought two of these, one for my mum and one for me. It took ages to get to us (over a month) My mum has shoulder length, thin, straight hair so we were hoping she would be able to get a few looks out of it.

We were excited when they finally arrived. The packaging was nice and it felt like a nice quality but that's were it stopped. I plugged it in and I noticed it has a very small cord. Also the sound when it's turned on is very loud (my mum also agreed) For me personally the bristles were to soft and couldn't hold my hair properly. I have very thick, wavy, long hair and I was wanting some proper curls.

This product is not for me.

Definitely won't be using again. My current straightener had broken so i had borrowed my sister in-laws instyler. It took a very long time to heat up and had annoying sound everytime the barrel rotated. It did slightly straighten my hair but made the ends of my hair curl in which i didn't like. The instyler left my hair still feeling frizzy which other straighteners wouldn't do.

For something that is over $100 I'm quite disappointed in the instyler. It is so loud in your ear because of the barrel spinning around and it did a crappy job at straightening my hair and left my hair feeling really dry even though I use heat protection spray. The bristles on it don't even brush through your hair and I found thatbtheybjust clogged up with bits of fluff and hair.

I have tried these numerous times and I don't think I can recommend them to anyone. They are ok if someone else is doing your hair. The rotator bit only goes one way so it smooth's down one side of the head and on the other side it runs up the cuticle. Also my mother in law has burnt herself a couple of times even with the guard on.