Decades of opinions, in writing.
Several of Australia's best-known hairdressing-scissor brands have Japanese-sounding names and sell on "Japanese steel" — while, in their own published words, naming American or Chinese steel grades under that Japanese label, or...
Read the full piece →A scissor cannot be both VG10 and 440C — they are two different steels. Yet on matsuihair.com.au and scissortechaustralia.com.au, scissors titled "VG10"...
Read →The prettiest hairdressing scissors are the ones where the beauty lives in the steel itself — a mirror polish, an etched pattern,...
Read →No. "9CR13" and "9CR18" are Chinese steel designations, not Japanese ones. The "numberCrnumber" naming format — 3Cr13, 4Cr13, 8Cr13MoV, 9Cr18MoV — belongs...
Read →Here's the straight answer before anything else: ShearGenius does not make a curved hairdressing scissor — and most "curved scissors" you'll find...
Read →Most hairdressers will never be able to tell whether the steel in their scissors is what the label claims. Not by looking,...
Read →The short answer: the best hairdressing scissor and thinner set in Australia for most working stylists is the Geisha scissor and thinner...
Read →The best scissors for scissor-over-comb work are 6.5-to-7-inch convex blades with real mass — enough length to cover a comb-width in a...
Read →For cutting hair: no — because almost every “titanium scissor” on the market is a stainless steel scissor wearing a titanium-based coating,...
Read →The most expensive hairdressing scissors are hand-finished, precious-metal and limited-run pieces from specialist workshops, running well past $2,000 — and we make...
Read →Dropped your scissors? Stop cutting with them first, look second — a drop can chip the edge, knock the tips out of...
Read →For your first or only thinning scissor (also called thinning shears), choose around 30 teeth — the all-rounder count that blends and...
Read →If your scissors cut worse after sharpening than before, the sharpening was wrong — a correctly sharpened scissor cuts noticeably, immediately better,...
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