Collection: $5 Cuticle Nippers Sharpening in Los Angeles, CA or by Mail

Cuticle Nipper Sharpening is all eye hand coordination. I have over 30 years experience sharpening Cuticle Nippers. I hold the inside edges properly so that both left & right edges meet together. Then I hone the outside to make it sharp. Lastly I thin the outside edges so the nipper is thin enough to get to the cuticle. Cuticle Nippers don’t cut for several reasons:

With a lot of use the edges dull. Falling to the floor will certainly bend the blades. The worst is when the manicurist tries to sharpen the nippers with an emery board. That really tears up the edges.

When purchasing there are a few things to consider; all cuticle nippers there are two halves connected together. There is a lap-joint one half of the nipper attached to the other half with a rivet to the other side. The rivet lostens after a time and the blades wobble preventing getting a good cut. The better kind is called a box-joint where one part of the handle goes through the middle of the other side. It stays together tighter and lasts longer than  the lap-joint.

Cuticle nippers are basically made of two different metals. Stainless steel is preferable, it doesn't rust. The other  is plated steel, and while it looks more shiny, when sharpening it the plating is ground off and the regular steel underneath will corrode and rust. The plain steel when it is sharpened can be chemically blackened which will slow down the rust formation. You cannot use any cuticle nipper with any rust on a customer, you cannot even have it anyplace in the salon.

I sharpen for Mail Order, for Salons, for Supply Companies, and a couple of Factories whose names you would recognize, one for 10 years until they moved away and another for the past 15 years.