Trying the 1999 Conair Steam Straightener for the first time | Does it work??

[@StephWells]

It wasn’t that we were fugly teens in the 90s and early 2000s…we were simply victims of trauma inducing, trash products 😂😂

[@erinmiller]

Exactly !!

[@aprilroberts6124]

I was in 6th grade in 1999. Very thick, coarse curly hair. Was super excited to get this as a Christmas gift. I cried for hours because it only made my hair so frizzy and knotted up. It was one of the biggest let downs.

[@fuzzycatbutts]

That is so sad, i feel so sorry for 6th grade you ☹️☹️☹️

[@jennymanker6478]

Memory unlocked…this was the straightener I had from 2001-2003. I can smell it just looking at it.

[@Dascia2]

Same, this was my high school experience.

[@AmySarah-rm7gz]

Same 😆

[@FireLordAzula420]

You’re my favorite 2000s nostalgia content creator

[@virginianoone9395]

I had the old Remington "Wet 2 Straight"... I remember hearing it sizzle on my wet hair, seeing steam(smoke?) and thinking, "Is this damaging my hair? ...Nahhh, they couldn't sell it if it did that." and then just kept frying.

[@ChristianGirly24]

The hair in the back being undone is perfect 😂😂😂 definitely giving nostalgia

[@judyhuang1529]

Omg that was my first hair straightner!! Low key sad I got rid of it. Could've been an antique 🤣

[@jaybeee6336]

Man! The steam burned ya! The claw teeth pulled your hair out, it hurt & looked awful! I am so grateful for our ceramic plated flat irons now! God bless the innovation! Ahaha

[@stephaniewilliams7431]

The wave wink is the best!lol

[@Mr_E.Nastolgia]

Compared to other options and of course the infamous clothing iron , at the time this worked really well.

[@trey8872]

That Tyra quote was perfect! 🤣

[@LaFawnDuh220]

I had this exact one... over time the cotton in the water starts to fall apart. Also my hair always just smelled burnt when using this 😂

[@spiderleenie]

This was one of the first hair straighteners I ever owned, lol. My mom got it for me on my 15th birthday. While it made my frizzy hair that I didn't know how to style at all look better ... It still wasn't good. There was no way to straighten the waves in the back properly haha.

[@erinmiller]

A good hair straightening tool just didn’t exist when I was in middle school

[@LakeGael]

I'm forever thankful, as a licensed cosmetologist, that I was too poor and intermittently homeless as a teenager to afford hair straightening tools. My hair has always been ~slightly wavy~ at best, and every attempt I made in my early 20s to straighten it always resulted in my already-fine-and-volumeless hair AS CLOSE TO MY SCALP as possible, but just in the front. The back was still ~slightly wavy~.

[@cls85]

I can only imagine your props/throwback memorabilia collection. dear heart, you have EVERYTHING and too many of us are so jealous ; )

[@poeticscapes]

I still have mine and it still operates in a similar way. Believe me, trying to straighten my long hair with this was worse than anything. It would take me more than an hour and my hair was puffy and frizzy. Who invented this? I need all my 90's straightening hair time back!

[@jackiebrown7859]

I had that awful thing. Looking back, I think how dumb it was. Humidity makes my hair Frizzier, so its counter productive😆

[@Heather-n7y]

I never had/understood a steam straightener because water makes my hair curl, so how was this supposed to make it straight? I sizzled and fried my hair the waterless, old fashioned way.

[@jackytumbles]

I was also thinking how on earth is water going to help with straightening? That's counterproductive.

[@julievaldez21]

This is why girls with naturally straight hair don’t know how good they had it 🥲

[@theshamlock]

And they whine about curls falling out within an hour. 😂

[@catherineblue5607]

Oh god, I had a blue Conair straightener with the velvet plates😂 Takes me back...

[@xoxoxoxxoxxo]

The yellow plastic 😂😩

[@erinmiller]

Scary 🫣

[@tdawg6365]

who else remembers laying on your side wit h your hair on a table on top of a towel and your moms flat iron listening to the sizzle

[@ThineTubesOfThee]

Lmao I'd be bent down by the side of the ironing board while she literally ironed my hair on special occasions 😂

[@theshamlock]

Yessss! Found that perfect height table for the hair ironing! Walked out of the house looking like an upside-down broom.

[@oldmckdonald-xp3dl]

I had to witness my sister doing this to her hair every day for a week

[@lpercival7820]

Now I know where my cuprul tunnel came from😂

[@chrissyfuhrie]

Omg I had this. You just unlocked a memory! 😂😂😂

[@Holdmymawashi]

Steam: Because nothing straightens hair like humidity

[@GamerValene]

I had the steam one and the one with velvet plates. I bet they are still at my mom’s house where I will literally never use those awful things ever again.

[@VGatorS]

This was my first straightener, and I used it for far too many years. No wonder my hair was hideous.

[@meganc769]

This was my first straightner..that's what we called it 😂 flat iron wasn't a thing in our world yet. It was too big and bulky to get close enough to your roots, so i would have fluffy roots and somewhat straight ends. Then, in my early bar hopping days, I got a mini curling iron that ran on propane that i would carry around in my purse. That thing made me super popular in the bar bathrooms 😂 and the sound it made when you fired that thing up 😬

[@lindsey.eldritch]

I would 3 hours straightening the heck out of my hair with the Conair steam straightener, and the finished product actually was just like this.

[@laurendowns4894]

Omg! Literally burnt my hair in middle school with this. The steam feature made it frizz up.

[@elenavivi2662]

Omg I had this back in the day! It WAS awful. 🤣

[@erinmiller]

😭😭

[@cita_m]

I had one! Didn't straighten, but I remember my hair being pretty smooth afterwards.

[@fabygoo]

The velvet plates really played one on us 😭😭😭😭

[@ZomBabeZoe]

My mum found my old woolworths straightener from '99 a few months ago and I took it home to try it out...y'know,for science...when I tell you my hands got so burned and even after a few strokes all I smelled was burning keratin!!!! Actually quit a quarter of the way through!

[@beckylynn9640]

I mean, weren't they all 'steam' straighteners on some level since we all wrecked ourselves with wet2straight? 😂

[@lisamastri206]

I must be crazy but i found this in my closet, and i actually really like it! I have straight hair so it gave me nice volume, at least in my ridiculous hair. I can see how if you have gorgepus thick curly hair this wouldn't cut it .

[@AmySarah-rm7gz]

Omg I had this! I’d forget to put water in it and it smelled horrible 🤣🙈

[@ConserveMore]

Lol. Your hair is so pretty.

[@EternitysShadow]

I totally had this oh my god. I thought my hair was just impossible to straighten. I guess it truly was these torture devices on offer back then

[@melh1908]

I had the blue conair straightner with the velvet plates 😂

[@silverwolfeve]

Geez the yellow plastic😂

[@thestarseeker178]

I had this!!!! So crazy! Bring back so many memories of frying my hair and it still not being straight 😂😂😂

[@oldmckdonald-xp3dl]

I did this to my hair every day 🥹

[@Yikkoofficial]

Omg I remember using it and thinking it was so advanced but my hair always looked terrible 😅😅😅

[@KWSHOPS]

The Conair walked so the maxi-glide could power-walk 10 years later.

[@JenAngel21]

I still have my purple conair straightener smoother crimped waver and all the plates.. and the hairspray marks too 😂

[@DestinyR7]

This was my first ever straighter!!😂

[@Jill.A_]

OH MY GAWWWDD!! I had this and dropped the little thingy down my grandmas drain you needed to keep the water in I was soooo maddddd… I also didn’t know I could have gotten it out till after we left and I told my mom… it was never the same again 😂 it really did give a fabulous press tho.

[@Allymickey]

I use to have this!!

[@As-jj2rc]

Where is that t-shirt from?

[@lindseybertke7999]

I mean..we rocked the frizz though. Am I right? 😂

[@erinmiller]

We sure did 🫡

[@mandychapin9411]

In the early 90s, I straightened my hair with a curling iron.

[@OOool]

I think I had one lol it worked about as well as yours 😂

[@UltimateDorito]

I literally still have mine oh my god I believed in it so hard for so long 😭

[@April-nv1gc]

This was my first hair straightener. Lol my steamer didn't work. I moved on to giving myself terrible blow outs.

[@margaretanne1517]

I had that. It pulled at my hair; hurt so bad, dripped everywhere, made a mess of the carpet and made my thick coarse hair frizzy. Such a waste of money.

[@Oonagh72]

This was knock off of something called the maxi glide which cost like 80$ in 1990’s.

[@phoenixprincess5129]

I don’t remember those two

[@GSR902]

I would actually take one right about now lol straighteners kill hairs nutrients anyway. 😂

[@Kristie27]

Omg I had this abomination! All this did was create more frizz, and snarls! I remember having to re-wash my hair because it looked so bad!

[@SpongeB00b_is_a_savage]

Um ma’am you missed more spots back of your head 😂

[@heatherstiara8033]

I had this and it was the WORST. I have naturally curly hair and I made a clowns hair look tame. The worst frizz everrrr.

[@futureforecast1388]

Omg I had this!!

[@aedaii]

God that's awful!! 😂I'm so glad we have great straightners now!

[@BrittanyLonardo6516]

Baby girl you should have used some clip ins i can't trust the "hair tools" we were given to use in the late 90's /early 00's

[@ozzyinphilly]

HAHAHAH I HAD THAT.

[@LeighPrendergast]

Are you still friends with Csapunch...

[@MandieTerrier]

I had one. It was bad

[@michellecox1742]

😂😂😂😂

[@User-metaphys08]

I threw mine away I hated it😂

[@maausva]

Minkä ikäisiä olette? Siskoni käytti tuota hiuksiini 1989 kun olin 11- vuotias 😂

[@kimmiemcTHEORIGINAL]

I had that piece of crap! Lol

[@willowstarfruit12345]

toby fox

[@dollsNcats]

I had this flat iron for like 2 weeks and all the water would leak lmao no thank you

[@mikeygymnastics4]

FIRST i think?

[@VeenaMichelle]

You were! Great job 😅

[@reannonking5514]

I begged my mom to get this for me. It was awful, lol.

[@mikeygymnastics4]

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