Items allowed include kettles, blenders, chargers, hair straighteners, irons, power tools and cameras.

BBC: Somerset

Bennie has light-brown skin and excellent eyes, and he irons his hair into a Mohawk as shiny black as a virgin LP.

NEWYORKER: Ask Me If I Care

The Georgian Court Hotel in Vancouver, for instance, has the Orchid Floor, a group of 18 rooms stocked with Aveda products, complimentary fashion magazines and the type of gadgets that supposedly speak to a woman's heart, such as curling irons and hair straighteners.

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