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which ghg straightener do i get have you ever found yourself browsing the ghg website

and just thinking oh my god there is literally

so much choice i'm overwhelmed i do not know

which straightener is right for me right for my hair type

which one i should buy well this video is absolutely for you

if there's one girl who knows a lot about the ghg straighteners it is me

so let's get into it hi and welcome back to my channel oh hello

and welcome if you are brand new here my name is chloe swift i'm a professional hairstylist

and hair care expert and i actually used to work for ghd as a global educator

so i was very involved with testing these products before the products came out for launch

and it was my job to teach professional hairstylists exactly everything

about the products the differences between the products how they work

so yeah there's a lot of information locked away in my brain about these straighteners

and i just thought it'd be

so useful to do an updated video on the straighteners

because i think in my last comparison

which was ages ago i don't think we would have had out at

that point the chronos and the chronos max

so yeah today we are going to be comparing ghd gold ghd max ghd platinum plus ghd chronos

and ghd chronos max

so there's a lot to get through let's get into it

also i do just want to point out i have literally

just had my hair done yesterday had a fresh color

and blow dry so it is definitely looking very shiny

so i don't exactly have frizz to tackle today

but with each of these i'm just going to be showing you how you can curl with them

and hopefully that will help you kind of base your decision

so you can curl with all of the stylers and straighteners

but really in this video i really want to touch on the facts

and the tech behind the tool and really go through

which straightener is going to be best for which kind of hair type and

because i'm styling dry hair today i'm just going to prep

the hair with the full mitchell hot of the press just to protect it from here

so we'll start off with the ghg gold i'm going to

work through these guys in price order they're definitely in kind of like category order

and in terms of like how high up the tech is

so we'll start off with gold first of all here in

the uk retail is at 199 pounds what's crazy for me

as i've literally just price checked all of these how much just inflation

and the prices have gone up since like i was working with them

because gold was definitely not that much at the time

so let's turn her on so with gold you've got this nice round button here

and it just makes quite a simple little beep sound as

it's turning on it's the light is just kind of flushing

and pulsating and then the light's gonna stay solid

and it'll beep again

when it's up to temperature every single one of these straighteners

is 185 degrees celsius there we go it's up to temperature you cannot change any of these stylers up

or down i guess

that is literally what ghd is known for they definitely are known for being the best hair straighteners

and stylers on the market and part of that is their temperature

so ghd are just so big on that 185 temperature

and they stand by that for when you are heat styling dry hair temperatures 190

and above if you're using those repeatedly over periods of time

that is proven to permanently damage your hair and temperatures around 170

and below yes it might give you that style

but a it's definitely not going to last all day

which ghd are so passionate about

if you are styling your hair they want you to have curls

or lovely straight silky hair that lasts all day

or even a few days so yeah lower temperatures aren't going to give you a style

that lasts and also it's not hot enough to fully fully seal

that cuticle down so you might find

that your hair is still a bit puffy or frizzy

and then what happens you're actually going over it more than once

so it kind of just defeats the object anyway

if you were going for a lower temperature to keep your hair in like a healthy condition

so yeah 185 is just optimum i love using 185 i've used it on

so many different hair types throughout my career i genuinely would say the 185 temperature is chef's kiss

so all of these are 185 degrees celsius we're not comparing

different temperatures at all with these that's quite a nice feature the actual plates themselves are quite shimmery

but that's literally just like an aesthetic feature

and then we have a gold hinge here

so with this hinge what happens is you actually always have one plate meeting the other

and we'll come on to that

when we look at like the different hinges on the other ones

and how that's different a lot of hair stylists actually do love to use gold

and i think the reason why stylists love to use gold there's a really good tension with gold

so if i close the plates here as well

so that's just me gently closing them

but you can really kind of squeeze them tightly shut

and then there's literally no gap in between

so for those of you who love that really tight tension

when you are using a straightener gold is really great for

that so let me come in

and show you our first curl with gold i'm going to

do the same kind of curling technique for all of these

so i'm going to go in kind of diagonally place the

styler at the root there one twist one wrap around

and then i'm going to pull everything out on a diagonal

so we're not going super loose

because i do want you to see like a really nice curl definition with all of these straighteners

and yeah i think ghd are just so known for yes they are straighteners

but that's why ghd actually call them stylers because we honestly do

so much with them from curling waving they're just so versatile Ciao.

When we would look at the straighteners before they came out for launch, one of the biggest things we would look at is just how well they curl

and how well they perform with curling because honestly, some straighteners are really not good at curling, whether they just don't glide through the hair great at all.

But as you can see, that glided through the hair so perfectly, so smooth, and we have a lovely shine.

So the technology with the GHG Gold, we have a dual zone technology.

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Now, what does that mean?

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I will insert like a little image here

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so it's hopefully a bit clearer for you guys to kind of visualize eyes

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but essentially dual zone technology means there's two sensors in the plates

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and what the sensors do they can sense exactly where the hair is on the plates

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and this is really important because not all hair straighteners actually work like this

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so say for example some other brands they might get hotter

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in the middle for example due to the sensor maybe just being in the center

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but with the ghd sensors yes it's kind of placed in the center of the plates

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but it does kind of emit those sensors out all across to the edges so even

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if you got your hair here on the very end you

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would still get the same amount of heat on the hair

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and the same performance as to whether you place it in the middle

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so with any of the gsg straighteners you don't get any hot points what we call hot points

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so where it's hotter in one area compared to the others gold has a 25 second heat up time

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so it is super quick i mean you just saw at

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the start how quick it takes to fully heat up

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and it goes into sleep mode after 30 minutes so

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if it is down on the side it can tell

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that you're not using it

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because obviously the sensors can tell it's not kind of in

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motion there's no hair on it plus we have floating plates

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so i won't be able to touch it now

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because i have literally just had these on i'll show you on the next styler

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but by floating plates we mean plates are intentionally supposed to move

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and that is so

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when you are gliding through with the hair you are not getting it stuck

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or caught and it's not tuggy you do actually want the plates to move slightly

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so that is a good thing oh

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and lastly forgot to mention the little rubber guard

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so with gold you will get your little rubber guard

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that pops on the end here

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so then you can just place it down on your side it's not going to burn your surface

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or anything all of these come with rubber guards they're just

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slightly different for some reason gold just doesn't have a little

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air gap in here where some of the others do

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so who is gold best for we would always say gold

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is best for ideally those of you who ultimately kind of already have quite healthy hair

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if you are really focused on hair health you feel like your hair is quite damaged

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and quite fine i would probably go up for another one of these stylers as i go on

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and talk about the next ones but

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because the gold as i mentioned you've got a really good tension

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and it doesn't have any key kind of stats around color protection

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or like color fade things like

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that it's great to smooth out frizz great to get

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that tension on the hair great levels of shine the shine is incredible

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when you're smoothing and straightening out the hair

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and it's ideal for those of you who probably aren't heat styling every single day only

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because i say that as i go on to talk about the other ones

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if you are heat styling

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and using a straightener every single day you're gonna want like

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the top of the top the best of the best to look after the hair best of all

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so yeah if you are heat styling a couple times a week

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and your hair needs defrizzing de -puffing and smoothing

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but your hair is already quite a good general healthy state

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then gold is going to be great for you it's up

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here in terms of like it's a great ghd entry point

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i know anyone who purchases this you are going to love it you're going to be obsessed with it

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but if you're like god you look at the price

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and you're like i do not want to spend any more

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on a hair straightener then absolutely go for gold you will not be disappointed

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but let me just tell you spoiler alert the straighteners do get even better as we work up

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moving on to the ghd max so

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if you imagine the ghd max is basically ghd gold's bigger sister

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so they are pretty much like for like even visually they

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look the same they've got the same hinge they've got the

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same kind of gold glittery plates they've got the exact same technology

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so the max also works with dual zone technology

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but as you can see this is just a bigger version

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the ghd max is actually 80 % bigger in terms of the plate size

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and that is compared to GHG's just very first original styler.

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It has a 30 second heat up time so just slightly longer

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because there's just more surface area to heat up

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and it will also go into sleep mode after 30 minutes of being on the side

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and not being used

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and the key thing with GHG Max it was really designed

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for those of you with really thick really long hair

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because you've got that bigger plate

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that bigger surface area of course you're going to get through the hair quicker

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so ghd actually say it's twice as fast styling

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and let me just show you on this side

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because you can definitely still curl with the wider plates but

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when you are curling with a wider plate you will get a looser look

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so in at the root here again one full term

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and then i'm just gliding out on that diagonal 45 degree angle

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so compared to the ghd gold here

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which is just a little bit more defined here the curl is a bit more chunkier

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and just a bit more bouncy and big

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if you have very long very thick hair you want to get through it quickly

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but also same thing similar to what i said about the

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gold your hair is already kind of a good condition you're not overly damaged or fragile

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and you just heat style a couple times a week then absolutely the max will be for you

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and that retails here in the uk at 209 pounds Spock!

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okay next moving on to the ghd platinum plus

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so oh my gosh i was obsessed with this styler for

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the longest amount of time it was my go -to honestly

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i think i personally feel like there's a big difference between the gold

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and the platinum plus it just glides through the hair effortlessly it's

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so nice and part of that is this is gold

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and then if you hold up platinum plus next to it very subtle difference

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but there will always be more of a gap between the platinum plus hopefully can see

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that this is definitely not really a gap with the gold

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so that is why it's a lot more kind of gentle on the hair

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and the hair just slips and glides through just effortlessly

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and let me just turn her on

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so you can hear the sound she makes

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so completely different sound is a bit more magical in a way the little sound

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but again she's gonna flash

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and pulsate until it's up to temperature platinum plus does only take 20 seconds to heat up

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so it is slightly quicker than the gold

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and one of the key differences with platinum plus is this wishbone hinge

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so as i was mentioning earlier with the gold technically with a hinge like

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that there will always only ever be one plate kind of hitting

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and meeting the other whereas with this wishbone hinge the plates are always they're both going to be working

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and moving at the same time

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so that's i guess just more of an engineering thing

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but honestly it does make a difference for the hair

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so you're so much more balanced it's just super lightweight you can see how these plates are just

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so bouncy off one another whereas obviously you don't really get

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that as much with the gold

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so you see it's not got a level of bounce it's

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a bit more clunky i would say whereas this is just

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so soft and bouncy

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so the platinum plus was ghd's first ever smart styler meaning it can actually detect what you're doing with it

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so let me try and explain that

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so it can actually detect how big a section you've got on the hair how fast you're styling

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and it can essentially just adapt to your styling

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so i'm just doing the same curling technique here also just

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running through at the same kind of speed as my previous curls

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and oh my god look at

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that like i think that's a big difference personally between the platinum plus

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and the gold like the curls just bounce up and spring out

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and i think the shine just kind of unmatched really so

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when i say the smart styler adapts to your hair

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and what you're doing and your styling habits this is the analogy

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that we had to educate when we were explaining this to other hair professionals

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so say you are in a car

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and your car is driving up a hill

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and you're going at 30 miles per hour you're going to stay consistent at

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that 30 miles per hour

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so we're talking about the temperature here the temperature is consistently 185 degrees celsius

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but of course you're going to need more power as you're in on more of an incline

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and your car is trying to get up that hill

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so you're going to put your foot on the gas more

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and that is the simplest way of explaining how the platinum plus works

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so the temperature will never increase but it will sense

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if you've got a really thick chunky section or

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if you're just trying to style super quickly it can then power up

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so it is very clever very intelligent

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and that's why personally i've always felt there's a big jump

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up from the gold compared to then the platinum plus technology

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wise we were talking previously about the dual zone technology now with the platinum plus you have ultra zone technology

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and ultra zone technology again i'm gonna insert a little image here

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so it's a bit more clearer for you guys to visualize

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but across the plates with platinum plus you have this net

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of infinity sensors compared to gold where you had like a large two large sensors across the plates

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that still went edge to edge here you've got a net of tiny little infinity sensors

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so you can definitely pick up more things with your hair

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and even the finest strand like on the edge the plates are still floating meaning

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if i press these down they are going to move

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so they're still floating plates but here now also with the platinum plus you've upgraded

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and you've got gloss coating so hopefully you guys can see

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that but they are incredibly shiny these platinum plus plates

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and it does also just going to sleep mode after it's been on the side

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and it's not been used after 30 minutes

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so that's the same again let me just turn her off

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so i'm gonna hold that button down and then she makes

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that nice lovely sound when she's turned off oh yeah this is the rubber guard

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that comes with platinum plus

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so just got more of a little air gap there platinum

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plus does retail at 249 pounds here in the uk

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so you can see how the price is definitely creeping up now

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that we've got different kind of smarter technology

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but even as i'm looking at the price now i mean

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it's got a big saving on at the moment it's now retailing on the ght website at like 179 pounds

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so it's definitely worth checking the website all the time

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because they do have some crazy sales and crazy offers on these

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so actually it can sometimes work out better upgrading

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and getting a better styler

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and you can actually end up paying less money than one

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that's technically kind of beneath it in terms of technology we

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would always say the platinum plus was best for those who are really focused on hair health

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so if you had bleached hair

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if you had any kind of fragile vulnerable hair then platinum plus

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because it's that smart styler and it can adapt to you

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and it is as i say with

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that gap in between it is more gentle on the hair

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this is a great styler for those of you who are just really conscious

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and cautious of heat damage on your hair it's great for those of you with color

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so compared to i guess the gold and then the original

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which don't have any We'll see you next time color tests

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done on those for those of you who have any kind of pastel blonde toners

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if you've got a rich red if you've got a rich brunette

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and you feel like with heat styling your color tends to fade platinum plus is great for

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that because i've actually done tests with this styler

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and it's proven to lock onto your color for like two

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times longer compared to a competitor hair straightener where the temperature

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isn't as stabilized now this is where things get interesting

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because then the chronos came out

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so chronos came out i want to say a couple years

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ago now it's definitely not last year it must have been the year before

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so let's say a couple years ago now and this is

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when i was in my global educator role at ghd

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because at this point this was the top of the range

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styler then they told us their job was to create a styler

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that is better than platinum plus i looked at them

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and i said i don't think you can do

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that like i was so obsessed with platinum plus it was amazing quick shiny the curls pop

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and spring out and i was like i just don't know how you could do

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that spoiler alert he ended up doing it

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but it did take them a long time there was

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so much we had to test these against each other endlessly

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honestly i can't tell you how many hours we put into testing these two against each other

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and they were like we can only bring out the chronos

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if it genuinely is better than the platinum plus

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so introducing to you the chronos styler let me turn her

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on it's got the same sound as the platinum plus let

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me just compare their buttons hopefully you guys can see that

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because i need to hold it up with weird angles you can actually see through

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but the chronos button is actually quite a bit bigger compared to the platinum plus

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so that's just quite a nice feature

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if i hold them up side by side against one another as well you'll actually notice

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that the shape is different with the chronos

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so platinum plus now in comparison to it actually looks really

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quite chunky doesn't it whereas your chronos is a lot more kind of slimmer you've got this rounded tip

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and it is actually tapered so it's very very subtle

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but it actually goes skinnier and more narrow down here

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that was a big thing for GHD

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when they were looking at holding the Kronos and holding this styler

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because a lot of hair stylists get carpal tunnel

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and you get really bad wrists even just like ergonomically they wanted to improve platinum plus

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so yeah we've got slightly skinnier more narrow here very easy to hold we have still got

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that wishbone hinge

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but now with your Kronos you have got this little light

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around the outside the light doesn't actually do anything it's just

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like a nice aesthetic feature to have definitely know your styler is on

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when the light is on

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and the difference with the plates with chronos whereas your platinum

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plus had gloss coated plates these are now ultra gloss coated

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so it's even just got an extra layer of

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that glossy coating to ensure the hair just slips and slides through

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so i can imagine you guys are desperate to now see the chronos in action

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so let me show you on this side i definitely felt

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when i was testing the chronos one of the biggest hugest

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differences for me is how quick it is is definitely quicker than the platinum plus

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and the curls are so defined to see how

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that has just jumped up so much look at that

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so definitely because we did

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so much testing every single time you curl with the chronos compared to the platinum plus you will always get

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that tighter more defined curl with chronos even

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if you are doing the exact same technique i promise you

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that but that is another reason what actually might make you sway towards the chronos

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or the platinum plus because actually i love a loose curl

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so i actually love this result

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and also like i've loved this for years it still lasts on my hair for ages

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so if you actually prefer

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that slightly looser look then maybe you might be like oh platinum plus is more for me

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but if you love

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that tighter defined curl the hair just slips through the plates

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it curls really easy it lasts really really well then yeah you can definitely tell the difference between chronos

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and platinum plus here chronos i do also think

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and this is crazy to say because as i mentioned platinum plus was my ride

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or die that was like my go -to for years

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and you can see the shine on the hair it's incredible

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but you can definitely see there's just like a little bit

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more shine with chronos as well let me do chronos next to this platinum plus one

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so you can literally see them side by side

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because i've used different hands on different sides

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that was a reliable test for those of you might say

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that so yeah let me do this one right next to it

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so wonderful term slide in down and out on

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that 45 degree angle

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and you can literally see what all of the curls I've

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done even with gold with the max nothing is tugging at all on the hair

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so then I do always just like to pick it up twizzle around let it sit in

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that position that it wants to sit again let me just toss back first gold curl

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and then we have chronos next to our platinum plus this

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section of hair is a bit shorter you're just gonna have to believe me

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when I say this I'm not kidding you I do see

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the difference between the two even though some of you might look

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and just think i can't really tell the difference it's very subtle i can tell the difference

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and actually i'll tell you what i will link down below in my description box

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because when the chronos first came out i did a full comparison video between platinum plus and chronos

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because obviously that's what everyone was asking they wanted to know

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why is this new chronos the best why is it worth what it is

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so yeah i have got a full comparison below of the two

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that i must have done like two years ago let me

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just I'm going to show you the next video turn her off

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so she makes that little sound there

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so the one of the biggest differences with chronos chronos actually goes into sleep mode after just 10 minutes

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so that's a crazy difference so all of the others

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so far they won't go into sleep mode until they've just been on the side

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and not been used for 30 minutes chronos is 10 minutes

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which is very useful if you're not using it

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and you've accidentally left it on you would rather it turn off sooner rather than later

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but it's not going to turn off on you as you're using it it is

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so clever down to as i say

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that kind of smart styler technology chronos is a smart styler it's just one up again from platinum plus

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so the technology in your chronos is called hd motion responsive

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so it is essentially i guess

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if you were just to look at your platinum plus technology this is just even more responsive

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and quicker so it is faster styling

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but it's still a smart styler in the sense it can detect what you're doing how fast you're working

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and that analogy before how it can kind of power up it will never go hotter

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but that analogy before it powers up just to kind of work with you with thick bigger sections

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or fast styling it will do that similar to the platinum plus just like slightly quicker and slightly better

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i would say the chronos is great for those of you

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who want the best of the best you know this is

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the top of the range styler you know it's going to

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be amazing for fragile vulnerable hair it's not going to pull

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on the hair it's fast it gives you the most defined curls it is

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so shiny and it is definitely going to look after your hair

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and also i will just put it out there chronos is for you

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if you also have like budget to spend

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because let's face it we are creeping up in the prices now

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so chronos retails here in the uk at 299 pounds

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so it's just shy of that 300 pound mark

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but as i said earlier definitely go on the website

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and check all the time

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because as i'm checking the website now there's an offer on chronos

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and you could actually pick it up for 239 pounds so a really big save in

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there final styler we're going to look at today this is

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the chronos max you guessed it this is the bigger sister version of the chronos so everything

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that i've just said before about chronos in terms of technology

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how it works even the sleep mode this also goes into sleep mode after just 10 minutes

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but this is just the bigger version the big sister version with the bigger plates

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so let me just turn her on she's got

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that nice little sound effect again the heat up time for

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chronos max is 35 seconds as i mentioned earlier with the previous max that's just

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because there's a larger surface area and more plates to actually heat up

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and the size of the chronos max is actually 85 larger

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and ghd are comparing that to the gold so

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when they do give these stats and they say 85 bigger

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that is the size the size of the gold plates they are comparing it to this is chronos again

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so you can literally see how the design is the same you've got

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that ring light on the end just like a nice aesthetic feature you've got

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that wishbone hinge and it's in kind of more of a matte steel finish plates are really soft

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and bouncy because again you've got

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that wishbone hinge the bigger plates are definitely designed to get more tension on the hair

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because if you do have thick long hair you want

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that tension to really smooth and seal it out yeah i would say even

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if i'm pressing these two together you can see the plates

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close together a bit more tighter on the max compared to

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your chronos chronos similar to platinum plus as i was mentioning

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earlier you've got a very very small gap in between whereas you won't really have

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that with that max version because you want

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that tension for long thick hair

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so let me show you a curl with chronos max on this section of hair

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so in at the root one full term

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and then i'm gonna glide out of

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that 45 just give it a little twizzle round i've got

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that incredible incredible shine that is so shiny

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but you can absolutely see a big difference between chronos max

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this chunky more bouncy curl compared to then your chronos which is just so much more tighter and defined

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i would say chronos max is great for everyone who i mentioned before with the chronos

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so if you aren't too worried about the budget

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and how much you're spending you want the top of the range you want something

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that is going to make your hair

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so shiny defined curls it's going to be the best for like the health of your hair especially

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if you heat style regularly

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and you just want the best for your hair chronos max will be for you especially then

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if you all of those that i've just listed below

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but you have very long very thick hair

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but just remind you will get that looser bouncier look

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and also there's absolutely not to say

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if you have really long really thick hair you cannot get the chronos

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or any of the other standard sizes say like the gold

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the platinum plus the chronos all of these are designed for

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all hair types short to long to thick to curly to coily

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but i guess

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if it is literally just a case of speed you want

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to get through really big thick sections that's what the maxis

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are designed for i think i'll carry on actually with the chronos max and then i'll show you the end result

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i actually think just as i was finishing off there the

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only thing i forgot to mention was the price of chronos max i think

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so interestingly enough it actually also retails in the uk for

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299 pounds so the same price as the chronos anyway but also

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that is on offer again what i'm doing now just turning back on my chronos the normal size

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because i want to style the bangs so what i like to do

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when i'm styling bangs with a straightener i'll just use my comb come up

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and underneath i'm just slightly flattening the bangs at the root

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and tucking the end under

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and i just do it all in one then i like shake into position where i want it to fall and land

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and then one of my favorite things to do is grab

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the ends almost like bend it here like a little c shape well i guess that's a backward c

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and then you're going to tap tap tap you are literally just sealing in

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that shape like that and tapping it in with your straightener and that's how you get that really nice kick

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and flick backwards and if you prefer a more voluminous fringe than me

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because i do like to quite flat on my forehead

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but you would just come up and over and kind of bevel

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that more round and i'm just going to swap hands same on this side bend

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that into its little c shape tap tap tap okay

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so my favorite way just to dress out these curls

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and finish off the hair i'll take a comb this is actually the ghd anti -frizz anti -static comb it's

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so good the y2 comb i spray

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that with some hairspray this is the favorite hairspray i'm loving at the moment kevin murphy's session spray so lightweight

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and then you are literally just gonna comb through those curls bring them all together oh my god look at

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that look at the shine look at those big bouncy shiny curls

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which are gonna last me spray some more just onto this

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side that's one of the main things i love about curling

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my hair with a ghd styler like the curls definitely last they're

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so good at lasting just comb the back

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so you're kind of bringing it all together you don't have like a gap at the back of your head

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and then finally just using my hairspray just to smooth down

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any little shorter flyaway baby hairs i've got on the top

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and then fix that fringe into position

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so there you have it guys i just genuinely don't think you can beat a ghd straightener at all

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so we have covered the gold the max the platinum plus chronos

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and the chronos max i really really hope guys this has given you all of the information

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that you could need i really hope this has helped you narrow down your decision as to

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which straightener is going to be best for you your hair type your styling needs

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and maybe also just your budget please leave me any questions down below i'm your girl to answer

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if you have anything else you feel like i've missed in

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this video yeah just leave a comment let me know what

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that is and as usual if you like this video

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if you learn anything new i'd really appreciate a thumbs up

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and make sure you subscribe because i bring you videos like this every single week.

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And if you do subscribe, I'll be seeing you next week for another one of my videos.

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Bye guys.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “Which ghd Straightener is BEST for Your Hair Type?”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: hair, chronos, plus, platinum, gold. This video has 518 sentences and 6119 words to shadow. The speech runs for 27:44. The speaker talks fast, about 221 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 84% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
platinum noun	/ˈplæt.ɪn.əm/	The chemical element with atomic number 78 and symbol Pt; a dense, malleable, ductile, highly unreactive, silverish-white transition metal of great value.
curl noun	/kɜɹl/	A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
thick adjective	/θɪk/	Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
sensor noun	/ˈsɛn.sɚ/	A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.
shine verb	/ʃaɪn/	To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
tension noun	/ˈtɛnʃən/	The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
whereas	/(h)wɛɹˈæz/	In contrast; whilst on the contrary; although.
smooth adjective	/smuːð/	Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
comb noun	/koʊm/	A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
compare verb	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
coat noun	/ˈkoʊ̯t/	An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.
dual adjective	/ˈdul/	Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
rubber noun	/ˈɹʌbɚ/	Pliable material derived from the sap of the rubber tree; a hydrocarbon biopolymer of isoprene.
float verb	/fləʊt/	To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
technique noun	/tɛkˈniːk/	The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
heat up verb		To heat, to cause to become hotter.
get through verb	/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/	To overcome; to endure.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
come up verb		To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly.
end up verb		To bring to a conclusion.
finish off verb		To finish completely.
turn off verb		To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
bring out verb		To elicit, evoke, or emphasize (a particular quality).

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if you learn anything new i'd really · if you do subscribe, I'll be
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	have gone · i've always felt · you've upgraded
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is known · is proven · be obsessed
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	anyone who purchases · those who are · chronos which is

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 144 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, you've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thick /θɪk/, smooth /smuːð/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, beneath /bɪˈniːθ/, underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shine /ʃaɪn/, tension /ˈtɛnʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, flash /flæʃ/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
Long words — get the stress right: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, analogy /əˈnæləd͡ʒi/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, infinity /ɪnˈfɪnɪti/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like platinum, curl, thick.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?