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In 1995, BaByliss was acquired by the Conair Corporation. The BaByliss brand was created by the hairstylists René Lelièvre and Roger Lemoine, working in Paris in the early 1960's. Lelièvre innovated on the early curling tong, and marketed his products for professional hair stylists.
Theora Stephens is an American hairdresser [1] widely credited with a 1980 patent for "a more efficient pressing and curling iron." [2] Another source says Stephens “created the pressing/ curling iron in 1983.“ [3]
A hair iron or hair tong is a tool used to change the arrangement of the hair using heat. There are three general kinds: curling irons , used to make the hair curl ; straightening irons , commonly called straighteners or flat irons , used to straighten the hair ; and crimping irons , used to create crimps of the desired size in the hair.
The playing surface or curling sheet is defined by the World Curling Federation Rules of Curling. [31] It is a rectangular area of ice, carefully prepared to be as flat and level as possible, 146 to 150 feet (45 to 46 m) in length by 14.5 to 16.5 feet (4.4 to 5.0 m) in width.
The Grand Slam of Curling (formerly branded as the Pinty's Grand Slam of Curling for sponsorship reasons) is a series of curling bonspiels that were formerly part of the annual World Curling Tour. Grand Slam events offer a purse of at least CAD $100,000, and feature the best teams from across Canada and around the World.
Curling's recent popularity has swelled the USCA to 185 curling clubs and approximately 23,500 curlers in the United States. [1] The United States Olympic men's curling teams have seen success in recent years, most notably winning the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang , led by skip John Shuster .