What is the difference between thinning shears and blending shears? Can we really say there is a difference between blending shears and thinning shears? Maybe? I guess so? Depending on how you are using the blending shears or thinning shears is all up to the many different techniques used on the hair.
Blending shears can be used for well exactly that - blending. The same goes for thinning shears, they are used for thinning, but what defines the difference between them both? There could potentially be no difference at all, or if there is, it’s down to the teeth on the blade of the thinning shear or blending shear.
Thinners generally have more teeth on the one blade. Best quality hair thinning shears can have up to 40 teeth sometimes a little more but depending on how close or how much you want to thin will determine what thinner you buy. Blending shears can be either your texture shears or thinning shears again depending on where you are needing blending and how much hair you're wanting to remove.
Your texture shears give exactly that - texture. Sometimes though a bit of texture may be just the thing to blend out the haircut of heavy lines to get the perfect cut. So to find your perfect pair you'll need a tone of practice before going all Edward Scissor Hand on us and getting the blending shear and thinning shear mixed up.
Overall :
Both thinning shears and blending shears can remove weight and soften hard lines from the hair. The main difference between the two shears is that a thinning shear has teeth on both blades and a professional blending shear has one blunt blade and one blade with teeth
