Manicure cuticle scissors review

The scissors are widely used all over the places. It is hard to imagine a tailor, a hairdresser or manicure master without this instrument. Once we have got a huge and very old tailor scissors for grinding. Those were quite heavy with a big screw. And with an interesting 100-years history, as well. The owner of the scissors have told us that these were sold to the grand-grand-grand relative of hers by a very famous at that time tailor who had not enough money for a drink. And these scissors were passed from generation to generation accompanied by the story. And so they have survived till present times. Awesome instrument!

Our ancestors would definitely envy present selection of hairdressing scissors. When answering a question “Which scissors you use?” – hairdressers gave the first places to the Germany and Japan. These scissors are made of high-quality steel with a perfect design. Manufactured to fit any hand.
And looking at cuticle scissors? What a wide range we have got here. Selection by length of the blades, by thickness of carving unit. By steel, brand, and color. And even with rhinestones, and to suit the color of your eyes.

Many customers have asked me what is the better and more comfortable solution to use when cutting cuticle: scissors or cutting pliers. I can imagine confusion of this ladies quite well when masters of manicure give one advice, and selling consultants give an opposite one.
There is no use in arguing around this issue. I can’t understand some of the masters claiming that cutting pliers, or as they are called sometimes “pincers”, is the best instrument to work with. Let’s have a look on this from a different point. Certainly, most of the manicure stylists and your master probably as well use cutting pliers at work.

But that is HE who uses those!! These are comfortable to use for HIM!! Ask him to give you this instrument for a minute. Hold it for few minutes in the right hand, and in the left hand as well. Make several motions in the air as if you are cutting. Try to cut something. Are you COMFORTABLE with these? Does this instrument fit your hand well?
If yes, memorize the brand, design, steel, color, and etc. And move on to the store. By the way a selection in this area is quite wide as well so you can make a good choice.

But as a rule, few people can use cutting pliers well. Me personally, for example, was trying my best yet never succeeded. As for me, it is much more convenient to use scissors. And I doubt there is anyone who can claim that he or she have seen me with low quality manicure!
Thus, having a huge selection of instruments to cut cuticle – pincers, cutters, trimmers, cutting pliers – scissors are still valid! So, my dear ladies, you can make a PERFECT manicure with scissors! And please do not panic. You can do everything with scissors!
I can give you few recommendations following which you can choose nice scissors both for yourself and for your friends. Take a close look at your fingers. Let’s see what the condition of your cuticle is.

If you have a solid, thick, rough, semidry or dry, hard cuticle (as I have), then my advise for you is to choose scissors with a long and wide blades. Just too stick to an example - DEWAL 708, (1) ÌERTZ 641 (2) scissors from our selection.
It is rather hard, not too comfortable and even sometimes dangerous to work with solid cuticle with scissors having thin and long or thin and short blades, such as DEWAL 706 (3), MERTZ 643 (4). Even if you like these very much be prepared to grind those more frequently as these scissors does not suit you. We can not also allow ourselves to go for European-style UNCUT manicure. Uncut manicure won’t look to good on the hands with solid, rough cuticle.
If you have a thin, transparent skin and the capillary can be seen, you should choose scissors with thin long or thin short blades. Such as Dewal 706 (5) or Mertz 643 (6) models. As for you, you can allow yourself using European manicure. Yet in my opinion – manicure is finished only when everything is cut.

What else should you consider when buying scissors? Don’t be afraid of tight scissors or scissors with hard blades. I want dispel an opinion that such scissors do not cut well and are hard to use. To make it simple, scissors with hard blades or with average tightness are more welcomed in home use as in your palms and with your hands with a time they will work out a bit and will fit your style of work.
I do not recommend choosing scissors with a small run, loose-looking for the home use. This scissors are used by professional stylists, and as for yourself – you won’t be able to make yourself a nice manicure with such ones.
Another interesting and quite popular now model is MULTIPURPOSE SCISSORS. Many users preferred them after receiving a consultation about these scissors.

Multipurpose scissors are the ones with an unusual design: broad to the base and narrow on the edges. These are both for nails and cuticle. From one hand, you are saving money having one pair instead of two scissors. Wide blade can handle with length and thickness of nails; long part is good to remove ingrown nails; the very ends are fine to remove skin and hangnails. The only exception: I would not recommend cutting skin with multipurpose scissors to the ladies with thin, transparent cuticle. I guess, it won’t be too safe to do this with such structure of skin – yet, you are the one to decide.
Multipurpose scissors are represented by different brands: Dewal (7), Yes (8), Mertz, Viper (9), Dovo, Henckels Solingen, Zinger. The cost of these scissors depends on the steel, brand and grind. I would like to add few more advises to my customers about the grind.

Grind of the instrument can be poor, average and very good. It all depends on the grinder professional. This can be either a person temporary occupying this post just to make some additional money. Or this is a person in love with the profession, constantly improving his skills and practicing. I can understand your confusion when consultants offer you the same instrument for the higher price if compared to the other shops claiming that this is due to the hand-made grind quality. Hand-made grind can be wholesale, just to give a better look to the scissors, yet cutting parameters of such instrument are rather poor, and scissors loose the sharpness quite fast. There is individual grind as well. This is when a master spends as much time to sharpen cutting pliers, scissors or pincers as it is required. Operating period of the hand-made individual grinding is much longer that the one of a wholesale grind. Our grind is carefully controlled first prior to the instrument appears in the showcase.

Loyko Helen