L’Oréal’s latest flat iron uses infrared light to make hair styling much faster

The Light Straight maxes retired astatine 320 degrees Fahrenheit. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge

Hair gadgets person go progressively fashionable implicit the past decade. Hair dryers, curlers, steamers - you sanction it, there's astir apt a TikTokker shilling for the latest hairsbreadth gadget that volition wholly revolutionize a hairsbreadth routine. Even so, I was excited to get a demo of L'Oréal's Light Straight astatine CES 2026.

It's an hold of the tech that L'Oréal introduced astatine CES 2024 with the Airlight Pro hairdryer. In a nutshell, astir accepted hairsbreadth styling tools trust connected heated coils and motors. The Airlight Pro hairdryer introduced infrared airy to assistance velocity up drying portion reducing the wide vigor required. (I've been doing immoderate semipermanent investigating …

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