hey all. yeah, it straightened. i need to get a bit better with manouvering it (i want to curl the front bits around my face) whereas i kind of made them super-straight or possibly with a slight forwards / outwards flick, but thats all about practice methinks.

i'm not sure that wiping it with a damp cloth would remove serums / oils. using something to get the serums / oils off is likely to damage the surface, though. i did wonder a little whether some shampoo in water might be appropriate to wipe it with... but i dunno... don't want to damage the surface...

i think that heat is what damages your hair. it might damage your hair more if you use it on wet hair because you need to apply it more to dry your hair as well as to straighten it. if you use your blowdryer on a very cool setting then it really is hardly damaging at all. i had one of those brushes that you use to blowdry your hair straight. it was metal so the idea was that you wrap the hair around the brush and put the dryer right up against the hair on the brush so the dryer heats the metal to help pull your hair straight. fine if you are a hairdresser doing OTHER peoples hair, I suppose, but impossible to manouver otherwise methinks.

i used it on the lowest heat setting and put sections of my hair through it a few times (which was fine because some of the strokes were more uncoordinated than others lol).

i'm very happy with it, actually :-)