A Buyers Guide to Thinning and Blending Scissors

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This buyers guide to the thinning and blending scissor will walk you through everything you need to know, and the questions to ask, when purchasing this essential and indispensable addition to every hairdressers tool kit.

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Hello and welcome to this short video, which is a buyer's guide to choosing the right thinning and blending scissors.

This is designed to give you some useful questions to ask the person that you buy your thinning and blending scissors from.

Let me start by saying that thinning scissors fall generally in 2 categories: European thinning scissors and Japanese thinning blending scissors.

There are some subtle yet important differences. For instance, on a European thinning scissor you will notice that the teeth are on the top blade most times. And that on a Japanese thinning blending scissor the teeth are on the bottom.

You'll also notice that the teeth on a European thinning scissor are often more square, whereas on a Japanese blade they're often more a rounder shape.

Now, this means that with a European thinning scissor you may potentially see more lines and more marks in the haircut, because the blade is very straight and square, whereas with a Japanese style blade with the round teeth there's less likelihood of seeing any marks when you're cutting.

The metal that the scissors are made from is very important. With the European stainless type scissor it won't be quite as smooth or as quiet to use as the more expensive Japanese alloys when you're cutting.

On this particular model, it is a 6 inch long blade, which is designed so that you can fit one section over your fingers, if you're working that way and it's about the right length for a section of hair when you're cutting scissor over comb and cutting hair very short.

A thinning blending scissor is easily identified, because it normally has between 25 and 35 teeth along the blade. This particular model has 30 teeth. It also has an offset handle on this model where the thumb ring is shorter and finger ring which allows you when you work and keep your elbow in a nice low comfortable position.

So, when you're buying your thinning scissors you have some important questions to ask about the handle design, the amount of teeth in the blade, what metal the scissor is made from - and by having those questions to hand hopefully you can choose the right thinning blending scissor for the kind of work that you want to do.