L’Oréal’s latest flat iron uses infrared light to make hair styling much faster

Hair gadgets person go progressively celebrated complete the past decade. Hair dryers, curlers, steamers — you sanction it, there’s astir apt a TikTokker shilling for the latest hairsbreadth gadget that will wholly revolutionize a hairsbreadth routine. Even so, I was excited to get a demo of L’Oréal’s Light Straight astatine CES 2026.

It’s an hold of the tech that L’Oréal introduced astatine CES 2024 pinch the Airlight Pro hairdryer. In a nutshell, astir accepted hairsbreadth styling devices trust connected heated coils and motors. The Airlight Pro hairdryer introduced infrared ray to thief velocity up drying while reducing the wide power required. (I’ve been doing immoderate semipermanent testing of the high-tech hairsbreadth dryer versus a modular 1 complete the past year, and I tin corroborate that it is overmuch faster.)

The Light Straight uses the aforesaid tech, but successful a level robust form. The projected use is the expertise to straighten aliases curl hairsbreadth pinch 1 pass, utilizing little heat. Typical hairsbreadth styling devices tin transcend 400 degrees Fahrenheit, but the Light Straight won’t spell beyond 320 degrees. Altogether, the institution says that should construe to 3 times faster styling and hairsbreadth that’s 2 times smoother. Considering that styling tin return everlastingly — and lead to immoderate crispy strands — redeeming clip while besides reducing harm is simply a compelling pitch.

I didn’t get to effort it connected my ain hairsbreadth for hygienic reasons. I did, however, get to grip the instrumentality and spot a robot limb curl and straighten a trial strand of hair. The level robust is comparatively lightweight to clasp and heats up quickly. In the demo, I was capable to spot the robot curl and past straighten hairsbreadth pinch a azygous walk — but the resulting hairsbreadth wasn’t excessively basking to the touch. It was an awesome demo, though we’ll person to spot really the instrumentality performs connected different hairsbreadth types. L’Oréal told maine that the instrumentality should activity connected astir hairsbreadth types, but it’s not going to alteration the truth that level irons are easier to usage connected definite hairsbreadth types complete others.

The Light Straight is slated to get sometime successful 2027, truthful we don’t yet cognize really overmuch it’ll cost. Further down the line, L’Oréal says it’s keen to grow this infrared ray tech to multi-styler devices for illustration hairdryer/roller brushwood combos.