ghd Original Hair Straightener

The ghd Original is the straightener at the top of this guide, listed at £111.00 with a 4.6 out of 5 rating from 5,550 reviews. Its headline number is a deliberately modest one: the spec table gives a maximum temperature setting of 185°C, and the product name itself reads "No Extreme Heat". That is the same ceiling as the £186 ghd Platinum+ further down the guide, and well below the 235°C the £29.99 BaByliss reaches — which is the point of this page. A higher number on the box is not automatically a better straightener, and the most expensive tool here is not the hottest one.

What the listing does commit to is spelled out in the bullets: single-zone ceramic technology holding 185°C across both plates, 30-second heat-up, automatic sleep mode after 30 minutes of non-use, a two-year ghd manufacturer's guarantee and 440 g of weight. Two fields are less helpful than they look. The colour is recorded as "New Packaging", which tells you about the box rather than the tool, and the dimensions give a length and a width — 12.4 x 3.8 cm — but no thickness. The ratings breakdown shown on the page adds up to exactly 100, with 78 at five stars, so it reads as percentages rather than review counts. Everything on this page comes from the Amazon listing, not from any testing we carried out.