PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hair iron allowing a user to easily operate the hair iron and to easily switch the curling function and the straightening function, and capable of preventing wrong operation of the switch as much as possible.
SOLUTION: In the hair iron, an upper barrel and a clip plate are attached to a rear part of a lower barrel at their respective rear parts in such a way as oscillatable by a spindle. The rear parts of the lower barrel, upper barrel and clip plate are stored at the distal end of a grip. The hair iron has a switching mechanism for switching the position between the curling function setting position to open the clip plate and the straightening function setting position to open the upper barrel together with the clip plate. The switching mechanism is composed by utilizing the rear parts of the lower barrel, upper barrel and clip plate.
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