If you're building your first proper kit — or you just want cutting and texturising sorted in one go — this is the set I'd hand you. A Young Genius scissor and its matched thinner, both forged from Japanese Cobalt Alloy and hand-finished on the same bench, so they share the same tension, the same glide, the same feel. You stop thinking about the tools and start thinking about the hair.
This is the kit you build a whole day around: matched, balanced, and tuned to feel like one hand from your first client to your last. And as a set, it’s a real saving over buying the pieces separately.
From Matt Grumley, Australian scissorsmith: “I build my bundles as a matched set on purpose. When your cutter and your blender come off the same bench, your hands stop thinking about the tool and start thinking about the hair.”
Every Young Genius Hairdressing Scissor and Thinner Bundle includes
- A matched Young Genius scissor and Young Genius thinner
- Your choice of screw colour — Black, Indigo, Blue, Red Diamante, Pink, Silver, Pearl, Pink Diamante, Blue Diamante, Black Diamante, Magenta
- Both pieces hand-finished at Matt’s Lake Wendouree bench and inspected by Matt before they ship — no batch passes
- Presentation case
- Free shipping Australia-wide
- The ShearGenius Lifetime Manufacturing Warranty — covering defects in materials and workmanship
Made by a real Australian scissorsmith — not a marketing company reselling someone else’s steel. ShearGenius carries a 4.9-star average across 3,000+ verified reviews, with more than 40,000 scissors in stylists’ hands since 2007 and over 100,000 sharpened on the bench.
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Japanese Cobalt Alloy · screw colours Black, Indigo, Blue, Red Diamante, Pink, Silver, Pearl, Pink Diamante, Blue Diamante, Black Diamante, Magenta · forged in Japan, hand-finished in Lake Wendouree, VIC.
ShearGenius — Australia’s most trusted scissorsmith since 2007. The scissors stylists actually recommend.
The Young Genius Bundle is the honest, complete kit to build good habits on from day one — real steel, matched, and made to last.
What that means at the chair
- Offset ergonomic handle — your thumb and wrist stop doing all the work across a full day of clients
- Single bearing flat pivot — the tension stays consistent, so both pieces feel the same from your first cut to your last
- Cutter and thinner finished on the same bench — switch between cutting and texturising without breaking your rhythm
- Cobalt Alloy at 58 HRC — takes a proper edge and holds it through daily salon work
Who it’s not for: If you already own a cutter you love and only need a texturiser — or you're after a single specialist scissor rather than a matched two-piece kit — this bundle isn't the buy.
The right first professional kit — cutter and thinner, matched
An apprentice scissor set only works if both pieces are genuinely professional tools — otherwise you're just buying two stopgaps. Here both are: Cobalt Alloy at 58 HRC, true convex cutting edge, offset ergonomic handles, single-bearing flat tension, hand-finished on the same bench so cutting and texturising share one feel. At $350 for the pair it's a real saving over the pieces bought separately, and neither piece gets outgrown — years on, this is the set that stays in the kit for colour days, mobile work and busy Saturdays. Lifetime Manufacturing Warranty on both.
Want the pieces individually? The Young Genius scissor and Young Genius thinner are $250 each. Cutting left-handed? There's a genuinely left-handed apprentice set too. Full line: the Apprentice Range · what apprentices should actually buy.