Patent ID: 7992578

Claim:
A device for adding lift to a head of hair comprising: first and second arms; a pivot movably joining said arms about a pivot; each arm including a hair engaging surface; a heat source for at least one of said hair engaging surfaces; and each hair engaging surface includes: serrations that extend along a longitudinal axis of the hair engaging surface, with the serrations oriented parallel and set transversely along a width of the hair engaging surface; the serrations include a series of sharp and angled peaks and valleys forming sharp vertices at the peaks and at the valleys, and extending uniformly along the longitudinal axis of the hair engaging surface, with the sharp peaks and valleys in a first engaging surface of the first arm conforming to and coming together against the sharp valleys and peaks, respectively, in a second engaging surface of the second arm in a complementary engaging manner; wherein the serrations are adapted to engage substantially transverse a short span of a layer of tuft of hair proximal a scalp, near hair root to crimp hair into a sharply jagged, zigzag, non-undulating form near the scalp; and wherein each hair engaging surface width for treating a portion of said hair proximate the scalp is approximately 16 mm.