Hair styling aid

A hair styling aid comprising:

• a handle,
• a housing connected to the handle, the housing having:
• a chamber in which a length of hair is received and retained for styling;
• a guide for receiving the length of hair to be styled, the guide being provided by a slot in a wall of the housing through which the length of hair is admitted into the housing in use, the slot extending the full length of the chamber;
• an elongate member, at least part of which is in the housing;
• a rotatable element in the housing and adjacent to the elongate member, the rotatable element being rotatable in a clockwise direction and in an anticlockwise direction relative to the guide and, in use, winding the length of hair around the elongate member in the direction of rotation;
• a motor for rotating the rotatable element in a clockwise direction and in an anticlockwise direction;
• at least one heating element for heating the chamber;
• wherein the rotatable element is formed to assist in drawing hair into the hair styling aid during use with:
• an opening having:
• one over-hang formed to draw hair in and to wind the hair around the elongate member when the rotatable element is driven in the clockwise direction;
• and
• another over-hang formed to draw hair in and to wind the hair around the elongate member when the rotatable element is driven in the anticlockwise direction.

A hair styling aid comprising:

• a housing having a chamber in which a length of hair is received and retained for styling, and a guide for receiving the length of hair to be styled, the guide being provided at a slot in a wall of the housing through which the length of hair is drawn into the housing in use, the slot extending the full length of the chamber;
• an elongate member, at least part of which is in the housing;
• a rotatable element in the housing and adjacent to the elongate member, the rotatable element being rotatable in a clockwise direction and in an anticlockwise direction relative to the guide and, in use, winding the length of hair around the elongate member;
• a motor for rotating the rotatable element in a clockwise direction and in an anticlockwise direction;
• at least one heating element for heating the chamber;
• wherein the rotatable element is:
• a disc having an open section with projecting portions of the disc on opposite sides of the open section adapted to draw hair into the hair styling aid and to wind the hair around the elongate member in the direction of rotation of the disc.