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Flat Irons for International Travel
I've been to Brazil twice & I'm going again soon. Both times before, I couldn't get my flat iron to work. Since then, I've done more reading online and I've realized I didn't have a dual voltage flat iron, and converter boxes don't typically work with flat irons.
I'm considering getting a dual voltage flat iron for this trip & using a plug adapter. However, my travel hair dryer is dual voltage and it's never worked well in Brazil ... it operates at about half the power and I feel like I'm doing damage to it. I don't want to do the same to a brand new flat iron (which, I'm planning on buying a professional brand since I like the quality).
Does anyone have experience with successfully (or unsuccessfully) using a flat iron internationally? Thanks!
Re: Flat Irons for International Travel
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Mark Twain
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This. I too have found it much too complicated to bring one overseas from the US and try to make it work. I have bought straighteners in both London and Rome.