T3 Cascading Waves .75-1.25" Reversed Tapered Barrel

I don't know what I was expecting but it's just not creating the beach wave I thought it would.

love the waves and they lasted for 6 days and stayed bouncy!

Ok, so truth be told I thought there was no way this could produce a curl I'd be willing to wear since my mind had an image of the hair holding the shape of the barrel, and no thank you! BUT, I just needed to do my hair fast to demonstrate something and I grabbed this barrel and I fell in LOVE!! I have been trying to style my hair the way this barrel just does naturally with other wands for the perfect messy undone waves. I would have the hair looser at the bottom of a normal wand, or coil it tighter at different spots on the wand and looser down low and it would look close to what I want but I wasn't satisfied. Then I discovered this wand and realized I had the tool all along. I bought it like a year before I ever used it and just never got around to trying it. So if you are skeptical like I was give it a shot! Particularly if you don't want your hair to look like you used a waver, but for a "I just rolled out of bed and I'm gorgeous" look.

I like the curl ability of this wand. It seems cooler than it is and creates a strong curl. The problem with this wand and I'm guessing most t3s is that the rest on the tip doesn't glide smoothly out when you are sliding the hair off the barrel. It catches and messes up the curl. Why!? And the reverse taper is really prone to this since the top of the curl is narrower. Also, about one hair per session is ripped out and sticks in the recessed screws on the barrel. Not happy about that! If they nixed the tip rest, it might be worth keeping.

I've wanted to try this curling iron for awhile so I finally bought it. I love this wand for my long hair. The top of my hair always went flat but this wand makes the waves tighter at the top and loose at the end. It's perfect to curl my fine hair without burning it.