ghd Max Wide Plate Hair Straightener

The ghd Max Wide Plate is the sixth product in this guide: a corded ghd straightener at £156.00, rated 4.5 out of 5 from 433 ratings, and built around plates the listing describes as 70% larger than the brand's regular size. It sits between the other two ghd models here on price, and at exactly the same headline temperature as both of them. The specification table gives it a maximum temperature setting of 185°C — the same figure the £111 ghd Original and the £186 ghd Platinum+ carry — so the £45 step up from the cheapest ghd buys plate width and a 30-second heat-up rather than more heat. That is the pattern this guide keeps finding: the £29.99 BaByliss in the same list reaches 235°C.

Two things in the listing are worth flagging before you buy. The plate claim — "70 percent larger plates... to style hair in half the time" — carries asterisk markers in the bullet points with no matching footnote anywhere in the specification data we captured, and the shine figure ("80 percent more shine") is marked with a dagger and likewise has no footnote text attached. The warranty appears only inside a bullet point, as "2 year ghd manufacturer's", with no warranty field in the specs table at all. The item weight is listed as 770 g, which reads more like a boxed shipping weight than the weight of the tool in the hand. The rating breakdown also arrives as percentages — 79 five-star against 5 one-star, adding to 100 — rather than as counts out of the 433 ratings stated on the page. Everything here comes from the Amazon listing as it was captured, not from testing we carried out ourselves.