How To Hold Hair-Cutting Scissors

You may be using a regular pair of scissors day after day for different household, office, and school projects. However, this does not mean that you can use hair cutting shears with the same efficiency and competence as that of holding regular scissors for various purposes. Since the hair cutting scissors are a lot different than the scissors that you are used to, they require a different kind of approach in terms of holding and using them. Just so you know, the quality of a great hair cut depends on how well the person holds the shears.

Holding hair cutting shears is one great skill that takes time before you can master it. With constant practice, you can successfully cut hair of different lengths and styles. So here, check out these ways on how to properly and efficiently hold hair cutting shears:

• Prepare the pair of scissors for holding. To do this, hold the shears right in the blades' middle with the hand that you do not intend to use in the actual holding of the scissors. When doing this, make sure that the tool is closed for safety purposes.
• Position your ring finger. The ring finger must be positioned in the top hole. Make sure that at least one-fourth inch below the fingernail of your ring finger is entered into the hole. Then, place your pinkie finger right in the small hole or pinkie rest outside the bottom hole where you have just placed your ring finger.
• Position your thumb. The thumb must be positioned on the hole right below where you have just placed your ring finger. The same rule goes. The thumb must be inserted at least around one-fourth of an inch below your fingernail. Also, the thumb must occupy the top-inside part of the hole.
• Position the rest of your fingers. Put together your middle as well as index fingers and place them right below the hole where you have placed your ring finger. In some types of shears, your middle and index fingers can be accommodated inside the hole where the ring finger is.
• Support the shears. With all the other hand's fingers positioned correctly, use the middle and index fingers of the free hand to support the shears when it is in use. These two fingers must serve as the resting point of the bottom blade of the hair cutting shears.
• Move your thumb. The right way to use the hair cutting scissors is simply to move only one finger. That is no other than the thumb. It is the only this finger that must be moved to either open or close the shears' blades.

You cannot proceed with successfully cutting hair if you do not know how to properly hold the hair cutting shears. Though the process sounds so simple, it requires great practice before you can get used to it. Hence, if you wish to do better in cutting hair, practice first in mastering the art of holding a pair of hair cutting scissors.