Haircutting Scissor Care
Haircutting Scissor Care
In order to give a decent haircut, you need to have proper equipment that will help you get the job done right. Professional haircutting scissors are a must – they make the difference between frustration and a job well done. They come with different price tags, colors, styles, and lengths. As for price, you pick up a pair for around $20 at a beauty shop, or you can purchase scissors for several hundred dollars. If you give the occasional haircut at home, a $20 pair will do the job. However, if you cut hair all day, every day, at a salon, you’ll need the more expensive, higher quality scissors. You get what you pay for.
$50,000 Giveaway for New Salon Professionals
Current and incoming students of franchise locations of The Salon Professional Academy (TSPA) are encouraged to apply for a scholarship courtesy of Redken and the TSPA. In celebration of Redken’s 50th Anniversary in 2010, ten salon professionals will have the opportunity to sharpen their professional edge with a $5,000 scholarship to be applied towards TSPA tuition fees and books needed to complete a student’s training at franchise locations of TSPA schools. Scholarship awardees will be chosen by the Redken Scholarship Advisory Board based on their submitted applications as well as educational and career goals. Redken and TSPA expect to receive applications not only from students looking for financial aid during this tough economic time, but also from students looking for an advantage come graduation and job-seeking time. Shiro Shears is also offering a 25% discount for all students who are in need of new Hair Shears. As a student, you must have professional tools to go along with your new career, and having the right tools is the next step in reaching your goals as a professional.
Interested students can find the application at www.TheSalonProfessionalAcademy.com. Completed applications must be submitted by May 31, 2010. Chosen recipients will be notified by phone or mail on or about July 10, 2010.
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Choosing Professional Hairdressing Scissors
Choosing Professional Hairdressing Scissors
By Kristy Klien
A set of hairdressing scissors offers you an exceptional hair cutting experience through its quality and performance. Many of you would accept that choosing professional hair dressing scissors is not an easy job! This is undoubtedly a skill that is developed from a deep understanding of tools and techniques used in this field. A lot of efforts go to select a hair cutting scissors, which has been specifically manufactured to perform a specific hair cut.
Many a times, the kind of scissors you would use for a hair cut often depends on the hair type of the person. Therefore, you must choose a pair of scissors, which allows you to perform all hair cutting techniques perfectly and develop a comfort level in all applications. Let’s go through the steps of choosing a high quality pair of scissors:
1) Choosing the blade
You must choose the blade of the scissors to match the performance you are up to. There are two types of blades:
• Classic bevel edge blade
This is a hard type of blade, which is originally developed by the Germans. It is recommended for a durable impact, but it requires more efforts during the hair cut.
• Convex blade
This is the latest type of blade, which is developed by the Japanese. The convex blade offers you precision cutting experience, and requires less efforts and strain. It is reputed for offering a clean cut. This blade requires regular sharpening, and needs to be handled for sudden damage.
2) Selecting the Handle
If you pay attention to the handle of the scissors, you can have a comfortable hair dressing experience. Not only a comfortable handle causes less strain to your wrist and shoulder, but also allow you to easily style your hair. There are basically three types of handle designs that you can choose from:
• Handles with opposite grip, good for professionals, who cut with thumb and middle finger
• Handle with Offset grip, good for those, who use thumb and ring finger.
• Handle with crane grip, most ergonomically designed for industry professionals
3) Choosing blade length
Next step involves choosing the blade length of the professional hair dressing scissors. Remember, the length of the blade depends not only on the size of your hand, but also on the hair cutting technique that you would use. You can measure the length of scissors from the tip to your finger hole.
Besides above three important steps, you should also pay attention to the production material and production method or technique used to manufacture these scissors. Once you have chosen professional hair dressing scissors, you should ensure that you maintain them well. For this purpose, you should always keep them clean and dry. You should also lubricate them every week and keep checking them against any damage or cracks.
In the end, you should handle these scissors with care and store them in their original cases. If you don’t have the storage case, it makes sense to buy a new leather pouch in order to safeguard your expensive set of professional scissors.
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Hot Hairstyles for Spring & Summer
All the best celebrity hairstyles for the changing of the seasons.
Hottest Rock Hairstyles: Stage-Ready Dos of Music’s Leading Women
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Courtesy of Elle.com
Hair Shears 101: Taking Care of Your Precious Shears
Hair Shears 101: Taking Care of Your Precious Shears
By Kristy Scott
If you are thinking of putting up a hair salon business, one of the things you have to invest on are high quality hair tools and equipment that will ensure that you give your clients nothing but the best kind of service and treatment.
One of the fundamental hair tools that you should invest on is a pair of good shears because this is the tool that you will be using to give your customers great haircuts. A pair of Shiro Shears is one of your best choices.
Of course, it does not end with buying a pair of nice hair scissors. You also have to know how to take care of your shears so that they will last a long time doing great service to you and the people who come into your salon.
Here are the basic caring techniques that will help you maintain your hair shears properly:
1. Inspect your hair shears prior to use. Using your shears when it is not in good condition can worsen the damage. Attend to it before it gets worse.
2. Clean your shears every after use. Do not let hair or any hair product sit on it for a long time. Remove any debris using a clean cloth or tissue. Just be sure that the material you use to wipe it will not cause any scratches on the exterior.
3. Store them securely in a container. Keeping your shears in the same container where you store your other hair tools like brushes, other shears, combs, and hair clips may damage the cutting edge of the tool.
It would be best to make use of the shears’ special container to ensure that they are well-protected while not being used. You can also keep them in a holster, case or a pouch. Be sure that you dry out your shears completely before storing. (more…)
Trendy Cuts From Hair Thinning Scissors
Make Dry, Dumpy Hair Come Alive With Trendy Cuts From Hair Thinning Scissors
By Ed Friesen
Are you one of those wishing for the ultimate salon experience? Somebody who has kept her long hippy hair for decades and just dying to finally chop it off in favor of some new and trendy do? Why not release your inhibitions and just make that trip to the salon and having yourself dolled up with an edgier cut done by professionals with hair thinning scissors?
Whether its a shag or layered or fringed this thinning hair shears will do just the trick to give you the look that you want to achieve. Want to try a style that is truly different. Try an emo-style cut with these tips from Brooke Hayles.
Typical Emo haircuts are characterized by asymmetrical lines, bold highlights and jet black hair. Emos don’t move with the herd and their haircuts are simply an extension of this belief. In most cases, Emo haircuts are one of a kind experiments and not the type that you can get at an ordinary salon. In fact, it is perfectly acceptable to create your own Emo style with a pair of scissors, razor and dye.
There are is no set technique to an Emo–cut. It maybe described as more of a personal art-form, an expression of one’s deepest emotions. In other words, any style can pass off as an Emo hairstyle as long as it doesn’t look like one of those “dos” that you might wear to a prom or a club.
Both Emo men and women dye their hair jet black and the bolder the effect, the better. You don’t have to worry about the dye looking unnatural and can even shade the edges with frosted highlights, blue or purple.
However in her article Best Celebrity Hairstyles for Your Face – Part 3 of 6, Periann Rodriguez warns that in order for us to pull of a great, new hairstyle aided by a professional hair scissors, we ought to look into the following queries.
1. What aspect of your hair would you like to enhance? (i.e. texture, volume, wave, length, color) These aspects have an important role in fine-tuning the hair style that best suits you.)
2. How much time do you spend styling your hair every day? If you get a hair style that requires more styling time, will you be able (and willing) to put in the time?
3. Are you good at dealing with your hair, or do you struggle with getting it to do certain things? If you struggle with your hair, you would not want to pick a high maintenance hair, i.e. lots of layering, curls as they will require extra work.
4. Are you more comfortable with long or short styles? Sometimes we see a fantastic celebrity short hair style and desperately want the look. Remember that once you cut the hair off, it will take a long time to grow back. Of course there are hair extensions!
5. How often do you shampoo/condition your hair? Referring to hair extensions above, if you want long, beautiful hair with hair extensions, be aware of the extra time needed to shampoo/condition your hair. And every time you shampoo/condition your hair, you will be re-styling it.
6. Is your hair extremely dry or oily? Very dry hair may not hold up to constant flat ironing, curling irons, etc. If you need these appliances to create your celebrity hair style, be sure to deep-condition your hair regularly to combat the dryness. Extremely oily hair may not hold a curl, and will definitely cause issues with many hair extension methods. Be realistic about what you can do with your hair.
7. Are you experiencing any type of unnatural hair loss? Hair loss can be camouflaged by your hair style. Don’t pick a hair style that will accentuate your hair loss or thinning. Be sure to look into various hair loss treatments. If caught early, many hair loss situations can be reversed or at least halted.
8. Do you have any cowlicks or a natural and persistent part? No matter what hair style you get, you will need to consider these issues. Adapt the hair style you are looking for to accommodate any imperfections in your hair.
9. You have picked a celebrity hair style that you want. Do you know what the styling requirements are to get your hair to look like that every day?
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Must Have Hair Tools For Any Salon
Hair Tools, Styling Shears, Hair Shears, Thinning Shears
Are you overwhelmed to see the wide range of hair tools and hair care products for your salon? Do you aim at finding the best hair care products and professional salon hair tools at competitive prices while saving lots of money and efforts? Before you make any purchase for your salon, you must remember the latest trends and requirements in the hair care industry, and choose suitable products accordingly for your salon.
Other than personally going and buying these products from a reputed market, you can now find almost all types of hair tools for your salon online as well. There are various websites that offer a good collection of hair tools and also offer them at best prices with quick and steadfast shipping services. Apart from that, you can view the larger size of the image stored on the website to check these tools as well as the prices offered by their competitors before selecting a specific hair tool.
Let’s find out the essential hair tools required for a salon:
1) Blow Dryer
Though a good hair dryer is a must for any type of hair salon, but you must go for only the best dryer. Remember, the more powerful your dryer is, the better performance you can expect from it. This is because high speed and less drying time minimizes the exposure time and thus saves your hair from damage. For a person having thick hair, it’s highly recommended to use a blow dryer with around 1,875 watts. However, you can use blow dryer with 1,500 watts for people having finer hair.
Blow dryer is one of the most basic tools any hair salon must possess. You must choose a light-weighted hair dryer with an easy grip and heat resistant body. It should be easy to operate and must offer you three types of selections: hot, war, and cold.
2) Ceramic Flat Irons
Ceramic flat irons are used to lend silky elegance to your hair while straightening it. A ceramic flat iron is used to smoothen and straighten curly and hard hair.
3) Curling Irons
Curling irons are used to eliminate Frizz while creating silky and smooth hair. They are used to enhance and revitalize your hair with ion reflections. While selecting curling irons, you must check that it provides maximum heat transfer and allows you to control the temperature.
4) Hair Styling Gel
An effective and high-quality hair styling gel provides utmost control, sheen, and constant hold. You can use this gel in shaping and texturizing your hair; even for the hardest types of hair to enable it hold styles. Go for a hair styling gel that is alcohol-free and light-weighted. It should add strength, volume, and beauty to your hair while providing you with long-lasting hold.
You can get the latest range of hairdressing scissors that are made of high quality Stainless Steel. There are scissors available in the market that have silencer for quiet cutting and adjustable set screw.
Other than the items listed above, there are many hair tools including hair brushes, hair clips, detangling comb, detanglers, Hair stranghtener, Slider Razor, Satin gowns, Colormeche highlights, Cling rollers, hair tools stand, and Professional Diffuser Conical Curlers. Make effective usage of these tools to properly care for your hair.
By Kristy Klien
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5 Hairdresser Business Strategies For Success
We need to continue to look at the very basic elements that makes up a successful hairdresser business.
I can recall reading an article about Jack Nicklaus, who for you that don’t know is a golfing legend. Anyway he told the story that every year at the beginning of the year he went to his teaching pro and told him, “show me how to hold the club, address the ball, etc. Do you understand what he’s doing? He’s going over the same fundamental aspects of his sport and achievements, and we should do exactly the same.
Learning is an outstanding tool that will replace some of the exaggerations of how to run a successful hairdresser business that we encounter from our peers in the industry that haven’t ever increased their sales. If we listen to the geniuses in the station next to us we become stale and stagnant and our clients will certainly know it and begin to look elsewhere for the services that we provide. But the real fulfillment comes for us when we keep on learning continually and never think that you or I have actually arrived.
So let’s just touch on a few of the many facets of running a successful hairdresser business: (more…)
How To: Adjust & Balance Professional Hair Shears
Adjusting Tension (Balancing) Professional Styling Shears:
Adjusting tension is an important part of getting the best results from your shears. To check the tension on your shears, lift the blade handle to a 90-degree angle and let it fall. Your shears should close approximately two thirds of the way. If it falls completely closed, the tension is too loose, and the scissors will fold the hair. If it is too tight, it will cause unnecessary wear and user fatigue. Your shears can have a variety of tension adjustment methods. The most common are listed below:
1. A precision flat screw holding the shears together which can be loosened or tightened with a screw driver or a coin placed in the groove on the top of the screw. Turn right to tighten and left to loosen.
2. A tension adjustable nut which can be loosened or tightened by turning with your thumb and finger.
3. Other, more expensive, shears may require a specialized key.
Styling Shears 101
Styling Shears 101 – Tips and Tricks:
- Clean your Styling Shears every day with dish soap/hand soap and warm water. This will clean any chemicals, hair, and dust stuck to the steel.
- Check Tension Daily: Make sure your tension is not too loose or too tight. If the styling shears tension is too loose, they will not cut; but if they are too tight, they will become dull much faster.
- Storage: Always keep your styling shears in a scissors case. We have seen far too many stylists with styling shears piled up in a drawer where they get easily damaged.
- Never use disinfectant spray on your hair styling shears, and don’t ever put them in Barbicide. These harsh chemicals will destroy the steel and cause it to rust.
Properly maintained hair styling shears will last you for years. Hair cutting shears are a hair stylist’s most important tool. As a stylist, you pay way too much for your shears to just let them become a victim to improper care.
Written by Shiro Shears