It heated up pretty fast. I have thick curly hair so I ...
I received the brush quicker then it said. I read alot of reviews for this brush with people saying their red balls were falling off and it didn't work. I used mine as soon as I received it. This was my experience.  It heated up pretty fast. I have thick curly hair so I sectioned my hair to make it easer to do. You have to push your hair up against the heating plate and run it through slow. It takes a few times going over the same section to straiten. There is a couple things I do not like about the brush. The placing of the power button. It's on the handle and I kept turning it off while using it, and it doesn't really get the hair near the scalp strait. My red balls didn't fall off or anything like that, but I will have to use my regular strait iron to do the finishing touches. The brush is faster then a strait iron and definitely easier. I'm satisfied for the price. I'm not sure if there is different brands that are different but my packaging did not look like the pictures posted.
Rating: 4 stars