Was not impressed with this flat iron at all!! I bought it at Winners; I paid $39.99 which i thought was decent since it was originally about $80+. Anyway, this iron does not straighten well at all; the heat is extremely uneven; and I had to keep going over my hair with iron so that the style would stay, as a result, my hair was damaged from all that heat; the ceramic plates are of very cheap quality, as they did not impart any shine whatsoever. My hair did not "glide" well through the plates at all. Extremely bad quality.