{"id":2062,"date":"2026-01-07T23:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/loreals-latest-flat-iron-uses-infrared-light-to-make-hairstyling-much-faster\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:41:34","slug":"loreals-latest-flat-iron-uses-infrared-light-to-make-hairstyling-much-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/loreals-latest-flat-iron-uses-infrared-light-to-make-hairstyling-much-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019Or\u00e9al\u2019s latest flat iron uses infrared light to make hairstyling much faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Close up of L\u2019Oreal\u2019s Light Straight flat iron, with the heating plates starting to light up. \" data-caption=\"The Light Straight maxes out at 320 degrees Fahrenheit. | Photo by Victoria Song \/ The Verge\" data-portal-copyright=\"Photo by Victoria Song \/ The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/01\/lightstraight.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tThe Light Straight maxes out at 320 degrees Fahrenheit. | Photo by Victoria Song \/ The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Hair gadgets have become increasingly popular over the last decade. Hair dryers, curlers, steamers &#8211; you name it, there&rsquo;s probably a TikToker shilling for the latest hair gadget that will totally revolutionize a hair routine. Even so, I was excited to get a demo of L&rsquo;Or\u00e9al&rsquo;s Light Straight at CES 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">It&rsquo;s an extension of the tech that L&rsquo;Or\u00e9al introduced at CES 2024 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/1\/9\/24028805\/loreal-airlight-pro-beauty-tech-ces-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the AirLight Pro hair dryer<\/a>. In a nutshell, most conventional hairstyling tools rely on heated coils and motors. The AirLight Pro hair dryer introduced infrared light to help speed up drying while reducing the overall heat required. (I&rsquo;ve been doing some long-term testing  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/857801\/loreal-light-straight-ces-2026-hands-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Light Straight maxes out at 320 degrees Fahrenheit. | Photo by Victoria Song \/ The Verge Hair gadgets have [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}