My mentor told me to stop using thinning shears on curly hair
When I first started cutting hair about five years ago, I was working at a shop in Tampa. I had a client with really thick, curly hair and I was trying to soften up the bulk. I reached for my thinning shears, but the older barber next to me, a guy named Ray who had been cutting for thirty years, put his hand on my arm and said, 'Don't. You'll make it frizzy.' I listened, and just used my regular shears to point cut and remove weight carefully. The cut came out clean and the curl pattern stayed intact. I've since learned that thinning shears can really mess up the natural texture of curly hair, creating a lot of unwanted volume and frizz. It was a small moment, but it changed how I approach every curly cut since. Has anyone else found that certain tools just don't work for specific hair types, even if they seem like they should?