A health risk (GHD Mk4 Straighteners)

Member Name: summermoon

Product:	GHD Mk4 Straighteners
Date:	24/04/03 (1284 review reads)
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Advantages: Best hair straighteners around, Heat up fast, Fantastic for uncontrollable hair

Disadvantages: The flex and wire are of poor quality and dangerous , You cant live without them, Expensive

i bought my ghds at christmas and have had them for three to four months and i love them. i use them every day.
I have very uncontrollable hair and ghds make my hair gorgeous and silky and wouldn't swap those straighteners for the world. but a couple of nights ago i decided to straighten my hair before i went to bed as i normally do but within a few seconds of using them i heard a crackling of what sounded like static, thinking it was my hair or maybe i hadnt dried it properly i turned the ghds off and blew dry my hair again.
Thinking i solved the problem i began to use the starighteners again but i could still here the crackling coming from the base as i moved the wire slightly, to my horror blue sparks shot out at me and i could see the live electricity jumping inside the open wire! later on i investigated the hole to discover that the hole had not been made by a mouse or creature of any kind but after three months the wire on most sought after £90 straighteners had just worn through and the wire had snapped.
To say i was gutted would be an understatement , the damage is irrepearable and someone could have been seriously hurt .Luckily i have been able to obtain a new pair while i wait for a refund from the place i bought them but i will always be on alert from now on......and forking out £90 every 3 months when it is time for my staighteners to blow up is not an option......nor should it be.
I have also recently found out that i am not the first person that this has happened to nor by far,i doubt the last either. A girl i met while shopping told me hers caught fire! so my pair of ghds are in a long list of faulty straighteners coming from the ghd manufacturers
WARNING: to anyone considering buying these do not wrap them up after use this weakens the wire and you will end up having the same experience.
They are fantastic for straighteneing hair and i cant live without them but they have got faults, so to anyone who thinks they are per
fect this could happen to you, so just be aware.

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