Plate width, plate coating, and a stated temperature · review
ghd gold review
The best-known straightener in this group, and the one whose Amazon listing publishes nothing. ghd gives three bullet points — quality, durability, flexible styling — and no temperature, no plate width, no heat-up time.
Where it leaves us A well-known straightener sold with nothing published about it. We report the gap rather than fill it.
This page is short because the listing is.
ghd’s Amazon product page for the gold straightener carries three feature bullets: quality and durability, long-lasting, and flexible styling. There is no temperature figure, no plate width, no heat-up time, no weight.
This site does not invent a specification to fill a gap, and it does not copy figures from a different model in the same range and present them as this one’s. So the specification table above says “not published” four times, and that is the honest state of what the merchant page tells a buyer.
What can be said factually: there is no live offer on amazon.com for this reference at the time of writing, so this page carries neither a specification nor a price. If the published figures matter to your decision — and on a tool that heats, they reasonably might — get them from ghd before ordering rather than after.
Where this model is listed
A listing is not an offer: the reference exists on these stores, availability changes daily.
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
The good points, and the rest
Strengths
The same brand's heat-protection spray, the ghd bodyguard, does publish its protection: up to 230 °C (446 °F)
Compromises
The manufacturer publishes no specification at all on this listing: no temperature, no plate width, no heat-up time
No live offer on amazon.com at the time of writing
Specifications
Temperature
Not published on this listing
Plate width
Not published on this listing
Heat-up time
Not published on this listing
What the manufacturer states
Quality and durability; long-lasting; flexible styling
Amazon reference
B0CCYPDLCQ (identical on 6 markets)
EAN
5060777122850
What people ask about this
Why does this page have almost no specifications?
Because the listing has almost none. ghd publishes three bullet points on this reference — "quality and durability", "long-lasting", "flexible styling" — and no numbers. This site does not fill an empty field with a plausible value, so those fields say "not published" instead. The figures for this model exist on the manufacturer's own site and in the box; they are not on the page this link goes to.
Should the missing specifications put me off?
It should change how you buy it. Every other straightener in this group can be compared on temperature range, plate width and heat-up time before ordering. This one cannot, on this listing. If those figures matter to your decision, get them from ghd before buying rather than after.
Our score
8.0/ 10
A well-known straightener sold with nothing published about it. We report the gap rather than fill it.
Who this one is for, among grooming devices
Someone who already knows this range and is buying it again.
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for grooming tools and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
6 settings, 140–235 °C (284 to 455 °F) · 30 s heat-up · titanium-ceramic · heat mat
Six temperature settings from 140 to 235 °C (284 to 455 °F) on titanium-ceramic plates, thirty seconds to heat, an anti-frizz ionic function, a heat protection mat in the box and a stated five-year warranty.
Best for: Fine or colored hair, where a setting below 150 °C (302 °F) is the one you want to have available.
110 mm (4.33 in) plates · 10 settings, 150–230 °C (302 to 446 °F) · 15 s heat-up · auto shut-off
Floating plates 110 mm (4.33 in) long, with a ceramic-tourmaline coating, ten temperature settings between 150 and 230 °C (446 °F), fifteen seconds to heat, and an automatic shut-off after sixty minutes.
Best for: Short to mid-length hair, and a first straightener where the temperature must still be adjustable.
110 mm (4.33 in) plates · LCD, 9 settings 150–230 °C (302 to 446 °F) · Pro+ 185 °C (365 °F) · 15 s
The same 110 mm (4.33 in) floating plates on a digital body: an LCD display with nine settings from 150 to 230 °C (302 to 446 °F), a dedicated Pro+ setting at 185 °C (365 °F), a temperature boost, and a keratin and almond oil ceramic coating.
Best for: Someone who wants to set an exact temperature and see it, rather than trust a dial.