Review (4/5): Cool once you get the hang of it....but the price...
I'm someone with extremely thick and stick straight hair. My hair loses curl within an hour of me fixing it. I've tried other rotating curling irons and haven't had much success with them, so I didn't have very high expectations for this beach waver. I have been pleasantly surprised. Once I got the hang of it, I found it to be pretty easy to use. It features buttons that allow you to chooses which direction you would like to curl each section of hair, and a Home button that after each use, and after the previous section of hair is no longer attached, allows the barrel to return to a neutral starting point. I ran into an issue the first few times I used it, which was accidentally hitting the home button while my hair was still around the barrel. This caused the hair to get very tight and the barrel to press up against the scalp. This is very easy to do and I definitely think a design change should take place to correct this issue. The barrel is long enough for my medium-long hair and I can see it needing to be used more than once up and down the length of long hair. The curling iron gets up to 410 degrees max, which works pretty well on my thick hair. I've tried fixing my hair in different ways after using it, to see which method holds the curls longer. I still have an issue with my hair losing the curls a bit to quickly but it's remedied by using styling products before and after curling it. To be honest, I think this beach waver is very overpriced. Maybe the results would be better for someone with thinner hair but I don't think I'd pay more than $50 for this curling iron. Nice results, but the design flaws make this a product I won't reach for that often.