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LOCKA by LINTEL · 3 min read

A bathroom vanity late at night with a lamp, a phone face down and the LOCKA curler

11:48pm, and I was watching another curling tutorial I knew I'd never pull off.

I'm bad at doing hair. My wrist goes the wrong way, I can't see the back, and the wand always found my fingers.

I bought LOCKA expecting one more thing for the drawer.

  1. A lock of hair wound inside the LOCKA slotIt turns by itself

    how to curl the back of your own hair

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    It turns the hair for you

    Every tutorial assumed I could twist a wand behind my own head. I can't. Turns out the hard part was never the curl. It was turning a hot wand by hand, behind my own head.

    I feed a section into the slot and LOCKA turns it by itself. The back of my head finally gets curls too.

  2. The hot barrel inside LOCKA's slotted housingHot barrel stays inside

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    The hot barrel stays inside the housing

    My fingers were always in the way, because they had to be: holding hair around a bare hot barrel.

    With LOCKA the ceramic-coated barrel sits inside an insulated, slotted housing. My hand holds the handle, and the hair goes in through the slot.

  3. The LOCKA curler lying on a warm off-white surfaceBeep: the curl is ready
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    Beeps when the curl is ready

    Tutorials say hold it "a few seconds." I never knew when to let go, so half my curls fell out by lunch.

    LOCKA beeps when the curl is ready, and I slide it out. No counting at midnight, no guessing in the morning.

  4. The two rotation buttons on the LOCKA handleLeft or right, one press

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    Left or right, one press each way

    One side of my head was fine. The other side meant flipping the wand and my wrist, and it always went wrong.

    LOCKA has a button for each direction. One press each way, so both sides turn the way I want. 3 heat levels, 320°F to 392°F.

  5. LOCKA with a hair bow, comb, pearl clips and a scrunchie30-day money-back promise
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    Pretty curls in minutes, or your money back.

    Not a miracle. Just a curler that does the part I'm bad at. And if it doesn't do it for you, you don't keep it.

    Use LOCKA for 30 days. If the curls aren't what you wanted, email us within 30 days of delivery and we refund you to your original payment method. One email is all it takes.

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  • The hot barrel stays inside an insulated, slotted housing
  • Press left or right: it turns the hair by itself
  • Beeps when the curl is ready
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