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I read someone elses post before, and i was wondering, does the use of thinning shears, even on short hair very repeatedly damage your hair over a prolonged period of time? I was told that the hair is frayed and splits down the hair shaft. Is this true? My hair looks wiry on some parts, but other parts looks normal. Is this a result of years of thinning shears? Please help me out here I would greatly appreciate anyones feedback. Thank you very much.
The use of thinning shears, by barbers and beauticians, are meant to cut (pardon the pun) down on the amount of volume or thickness of hair which, in my opinion, seems to add to the problem. A good cut, layered carefully, can solve many of these kinds of problems. I have heard of folks who have their own thinning scissors and cut their own hair...hair cutting scissors of any kind need to be of the highest quality and kept sharp. I can imagine some of the damage you mention are by these "do-it-yourself" folks. If you do decide to cut your own hair, I suggest a visit to a beauty supply house and the purchase of high quality scissors. I don't know how often they should be sharpened but I guess that depends on usuage. I am, personally, against the use of "thinning" scissors...as I prefer my hair to be close to all the same length.
In my opinion, scissors of anykind are the worst enemy of anyone who is growing their hair long. Patience, on the other hand, is a longhairs best friend.
With that said, I'll get on with the thinning shear bit. Thinning shears cause a total mess. Let me try to explain this in some screwed up way. Imagine all your hair standing straight up on a level plane. Got it...? O.K.! Now imagine that the hair is magnified so you can see each individual folicle clearly and distictively. Totally confused...? Good! Now what you have after thinning shears has invaded this plane of hair is a bunch of long hairs intermixed with a bunch of shorter hairs (could be quiet short according to how close to the scalp the shearing was done). What you end up with is a total mess of longer hairs laying down and shorter hairs poking out amongst these longer hairs because shorter the hair the more it points straight up to the sky. Total mess! It also makes growing the hair long very difficult because you now have so many different lengths going on up there. Hope this helps! Peace!
Treyn, I couldn't have put it any better than you--and I am a men's grooming professional! I refuse to use thinning shears on my clientele for exactly the reasons/results you so correctly pointed out.