How I get Loose Beachy Waves, using the GHD IV Professional Styler

Hey ladies! Today's blog post is all about the new GHD IV Professional Styler, where I will be reviewing this for you all, plus share a tutorial on how I create loose beachy waves using this baby! I was kindly sent this to me for review purposes, and as always, I will be sharing my 100% honest opinion about this product :)

Now let me just start off with what this product is all about. It's a limited edition GHD IV Professional Styler which comes in 3 colours - mint, violet and lemon. I chose the violet colour, as it seems to suit my personality more! Now, these stylers are from the Candy Collection by GHD, and are inspired by the old retro sweet shops, combined with funky new shades from the catwalk. The stylers all have Black Ceramic plates with ceramic technology, leaving your hair protected from heat damage, as well allowing you to style your hair a lot easier. It also has a rounded shaped barrel, that allows you to curl your hair with a natural look, similar to that of a curling iron.

Now to use this, it's really quite simple. It has an on/off switch, with an LED light placed right next to it. When you switch it on, the LED light will turn a steady orange colour, which will take a few seconds to heat up (depending on your power source). This is to simply allow for the styler to heat up. When it's ready, the LED light will start blinking, alerting you to the fact the styler has heated up to its full capacity. Now one thing about this styler that may not be appealing to everyone is that it has no heat settings. It is controlled by turning the switch on/off - that's it. Most GHD's heat up to 200-220 degrees, which is a safe heat setting for your hair, and hot enough to achieve pin straight hair, or any type of curl. If you like the ability to control the heat settings - you won't find it in this styler.

The cool thing about this also, is that this styler can allow you to create multiple looks - whether it's to get pin straight hair, soft beachy waves, or curly sue type curls - it can do it all! I think it's due to the size of the styler. It's sleek, and compact, and for someone with thick hair like mine, it's quite easy to straighten my whole head of hair with, and create small or large curls depending on my mood.

Now compared to the other GHD Straightners in their range, I noticed that this straightner had a swivel cord attached, meaning that no matter what direction you place your styler, the cord is not going to get tangled up as you move, since it will swivel and turn in whichever direction you will move - how groovy is that?!

Now, there are couple of things I noticed which should be brought to your attention. This is made out of glossy, sturdy plastic material, which means that when you first use this styler, it may emit a "burning plastic" type of smell. It was only noticeable to me after the first couple of times of using it, but has since disappeared as I now use this on a daily basis as my main GHD tool (I also own GHD straightner, which has larger ceramic plates). Another thing to be aware of is to avoid touching the barrel when styling your hair, as this part of the styler gets quite hot (due to the material), so I would advise treating it as if it were a curling iron in this instance, so you don't burn yourself.

Overall, I have to say in complete honesty that I am impressed with the GHD Professional Styler. Really impressed. It not only gives you the same professional style as a salon would, but it gives you the ability to create whatever style you choose, because it's that versatile. I have been playing around with it for almost a week now, and have loved the different hair styles I have been playing around with, although my favourite style is creating loose, messy, beachy waves. It's so quick and simple, and doesn't have to be perfect! Here's a tutorial below, on how I create that, plus also see the GHD Professional Styler in action!

So if you're interested in picking up one of these for yourselves, you can check out their website right here.  The Professional Stylers currently retail for $249AU, and considering the amount of styles you can create - it's definitely worth it!

If you're not so into this particular styler, but want to check out their other products, definitely check out the GHD website where they have a wide variety of hair straighteners/stylers to choose from.

And if you would like to see how to create celebrity inspired hair styles, I suggest you check out this page to find out how!

Hope you enjoyed this review. If you have any questions, shoot me a comment!

Take care, cheerio xox