NZ Online Suppliers of Hair Straighteners

Hair straighteners suppliers, stockists, hairdressers, and salons are plentiful in New Zealand, along with many other hair care products. Perhaps a straightening iron is an important item to apply, for those that want to manage to enhance their hair's appearance. This can be important for beauty and fashion enhancement for special occasions, partying and clubbing, including raising confidence in one's appearance. Perhaps it's all in the hair style to convey a sense of beauty appeal, well being, fashion statement, or just an extension of one's self to display to others. Perhaps some quotes can illustrate this -

- "Hair style is a tip that a woman really knows herself" (Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer - in Vogue 1985)
- "Hair can be the richest ornament for a woman" (Martin Luther)

Hence where can one be without a hair straightener to use as an styling iron? Particularly if you want to easily, quickly, and conveniently, with minimal hair damage, achieve a balance of straight, shiny, and styled hairstyle. As with most good quality products, many haircare products from stores are easily searched and found online.


New Zealand Internet Online Suppliers and Sellers

M.O.P.S - My Own Pink Straighteners - (http://mopshairdesign.co.nz/)
Order online a professional tourmaline ionic pink straightener, which can easily straighten your hair with a shine. Has many features, e.g. heat retention during styling, easy to hold with it's slim design, healthy hair due to heat reduction from the negative and positive ion interaction from the tourmaline plates and other features. Perhaps visit their site, and also read reviews and customer testimonials of the M.O.P.S hair unit.

Freestyler (http://www.freestyler.co.nz/)
Three attractive colors for selection, wrapped in a functional heat resistant case. The irons provides quick even distributed heating, adjustable model temperatures, safety features and other features, e.g. sleep mode, ceramic tourmaline technology, voltage auto adjustment, comfortable ease of use, and other features which can be viewed at their website. Also read testimonials, and purchase online.

Bond and Bond (http://www.bondandbond.co.nz/)
Comprehensive appliance store which has styling irons listed in the home- personal appliance - hair stylers - category. Includes Remington, such as the mini styler for short hair and fringes, and the ceramic tourmaline micro diamond plated model. Vidal Sassoon models also, including the Goddess ionic steam hair conditioning iron for moisture addition to effect shiny hair, with other favorable functions.

Hair Direct NZ (http://www.hairdirectnz.co.nz/)
Suppliers of the ceramic Sako Stardust styling irons in a range of colors with advanced technology, and also Santorini digital ionic unit with tourmaline plates. But their are many hair care products for online purchase - professional hair clippers, dryers, trimmers, rollers, shampoos, and other hair beauty items.

The Warehouse (http://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/)
Either search for hair straighteners directly, or view/select under Gifting category and Home wares - Laundry and Bathroom for styling irons. In addition to shopping in store at NZ's well known varietal red stores for home wares, clothing, gifts, fragrance, skin care and beauty care products perhaps visit their online store for hot deals. Flat irons for purchasing include the Vive Cordless, Conair and cascade ceramic irons, and a mini styler.

Priceme (http://www.priceme.co.nz)
Compare a range deals and discounts of straightening models, that can deliver throughout New Zealand. Prices from about $30 to $230 and includes brands such as Remington, Cutek, Babyliss, and Vidal Sasson. Hence shop for a broad range of units, and many other personal care products.

Farmers NZ (http://www.farmers.co.nz/)
(Visit Catalog - Health and Beauty Section) Well established variety NZ shopping store that so many NZ's are familiar with, and at least visited, and shopped if not for themselves, but for many occasions for family and friends. Now celebrating their 100 year history, and has has NZ's largest fashion department store . Visit the online catalog health and beauty category or search to view hair straighteners, which may have savings from their regular prices. Couple of VS Sasson irons were displayed, and can save to a printable shopping list and e-mail if you want. Not sure if Farmer's sell online (yet) - but can visit a store near you. Image of window shopping by EIRincon

Hair Plus (http://www.hairplus.co.nz/)
Comprehensive site for your hair care needs - beauty products, treatments, extensions, styling, accessories (e.g. combs, brushes, rollers, clips, razors, scissors, etc) and of course hair units. Styling irons include Silver Bullet pink titanium, GHD IV styler, several Babyliss Pro, Freestyler, and Conair Pro Tourmaline and other models. Any product about hair (including hair loss) seems to be on this comprehensive web site.

LV Martin and Son (http://www.lvmartin.co.nz/)
Select to buy from personal care - hair styler s section. Several Remington flattening irons, including the wet to straight micro diamond (S8102CK iron). Also floating plate, and cordless irons with ceramic technology. Vidal Sasson and Cutek also available.

Sella (http://www.sella.co.nz/)
NZ commission free auction site, with several category listings including hair styling units, and associated accessories and products relating to hair care - such as hair dryers, colors and dyes, shampoo, conditioners, trimmers and clippers, styling products (e.g. hair wax, gels, sprays, creams). Images are well presented with bid or buy options and area (city) locations. GHD, Remington, VS Sassoon irons to choose from. Again, appealing images.

Noel Leeming (http://www.noelleeming.co.nz/)
Plenty of styling irons to select from for online purchase, including Remington Slimline Digital and Mini Styler, Vidal Sasson Goddess Ionic Steam, Vidal Titanium Ceramic Wet to Dry iron.

Shaver Shop (http://www.shavershop.co.nz/)
Supplier of a huge range of hair care items and based in Auckland CBD, can purchase online from a selection of hair trimmers, shavers, clippers, razor blades, grooming items, and hair straighteners. Models include Remington, Vidal Sasson, and Aria. Great product descriptions, good price ranges, and clear images. Includes the cord/cordless Vidal VSP2099, with temperature variability between 150 and 200 degrees C, with automatic cutoff system.

Trademe (http://www.trademe.co.nz/)
New Zealand's popular auction site with thousands of sellers, importers, bidders, and buyers online. Approximately 500 hair styling products being offered for bidding or sale, with around 250 (i.e. half) straighteners listed as new. GHD, Vidal Sasson, and Remington are listed as separate sub categories. Search for the iron you want - but you may want to list/sort by the most bids to be in for a potential bargain. But ask the seller questions, and search online for reviews and features for the particular item if you seriously intend to purchase. Maybe read my tips for selling on Trademe.

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Google Search Technique
Many hair salons and hairdressers, particularly when starting a business may not have a website, but maybe (or should be) listed in NZ online directories, Yellow Pages, and other web properties such as business listings, forums, article directories, press release sites, blogs, Social Media (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc) Google Maps, and Google Places. You can either search within those web properties, starting from a regular search. Or do a Google advanced search, based on common contact terms like "telephone", "phone", "contact", along with core terms, e.g. hair salon, beauty, studio, professional, GHD, Cloud Nine, straightener, hairdresser, etc. Also you can restrict searches within NZ websites like this: [site:.co.nz hair salon OR hairdressers "phone" "telephone" "contact"]. This produces this NZ hair salon advanced search (click to view mainly directories - and maybe search further, and maybe click on Maps above the results). Occasionally Google's PPC ads (from Adwords) might display (query dependent), which is an additional source of contact information.

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Google Search Technique Refinement
To produce less but targeted search results, then add or subtract other terms, e.g. by adding cities, e.g. Rotorua, product names, area phone numbers, etc, for further filtering. Or simply start with a site:.co.nz intitle:salon search (using intitle Google operator),which mainly list salon websites first. Then further refine with [site:.co.nz intitle:Wellington salon OR hairdresser "telephone" "phone" "address"]. This usually shows regional sites listed in directories (Notably finda.co.nz. for Wellington) with the core terms in the search results title and secondary terms (of which more can be added, e.g. GHD, as noted above) generally in the text body descriptions of those sites. Quotes "" are used to isolate the website's body text from each other and from their titles. Image by Michal Marcol.

The more you filter your queries, the more the results become focused and relevant, and often significantly less (hopefully faster and easier to browse). But of course you need suitably contact those businesses to check if products are currently available. But generally start with a basic Google search that you are comfortable with...

Custom Search

Maybe also include the "more search tools" on the L/H side of Google's results. In an earlier article I describe using Google search tips for searching pdf manuals. My computer blog describes a comprehensive walk-through for online research by searching with advanced Google Operators for different types of website domains and document formats, including a series of pdf tips.

NZ online stores and stockists offer a sufficient range of hair straighteners, but you may want to read reviews and buying tips online, and talk to family and friends to purchase a iron that hopefully suits you. If used carefully, and with suitable accessories and products (e.g. balms, hair gels, sprays, shampoos, etc) then you can easily achieve a satisfactory hair style result.

Also be careful when searching online, as you may come across a website selling fake hair irons - often GHD. Prices are usually significantly lower than genuine - which I have seen for NZ URL listed web sites. Often with no images of NZ locations, people (e.g. testimonials, employees, management, etc), and even with spelling mistakes - for the city of Auckland. So check with the website checker on the GHD official site. Also email the suspect site with queries about store/region location, such as if real irons and if they are certified to sell. Or perhaps do a domain "Whois" search, to try validate the website host location, and hence authenticity of their products. I explain how to analyze for counterfeit websites using Whois and Google Places/Maps. Image of Plastic Dolls by ElRincon.

NZ Online Suppliers of Hair Straighteners