Why Top Hair Stylists Pay $2000 For Japanese Hair Shears | So Expensive | Insider Business
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- While standard hair scissors cost less than $10, high-end professional hair shears can cost over $2,000. One of the main reasons is the attention paid to the point where the two blades meet. At Naruto in Japan, 12 skilled artisans spend hours perfecting the blades of scissors that can last decades.
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There was a shop named 'Sasuke' who specializes on bonsai shears. Never though Naruto and Sasuke's rivalry would come to this.
@spaceoven8788i think that video also came from here so just look for it
@spaceoven8788 search this one: Why Bonsai Scissors Can Cost $26,000 | Still Standing | Insider Business
They aren’t rivals
😂😂😂
So true 👏 but i heard Sasuke shop doesn't have successor so Naruto wins at the end.
Of course it's Japanese. They have a similar obsession with producing all kinds of specialized high-end equipment. Bonsai shears, inksticks / blocks, knives, etc.
Cars you forgot cars
And it requires a lifetime experience
Fishing poles even! $1k for a bass rod is not uncommon to the high end buyer...it's nuts, in a good way.
Where do you start getting diminishing returns for scissors, ink, and fishing poles? At a certain point you're just paying the price to pay the price.
@@ruhtam8971other than lexus their cars are average. However their engines are mad reliable
By the quality of their work, one can tell they don't cut corners 😊
If Africans can copy this from the Japanese, they'll transform themselves
Shows nothing but their shear dedication.
Their scissors wins the competitors by more than a hairs breath as well.
Of course they don't cut corners, they cut hairs.
I see that ur puns are sharp
It is good that this is shown, I bought my first japanese Kasho scissor and my boss paid half of it. $800,- that was 25 years ago and it is still one of the best scissors I ever bought. People thought I was crazy, but it is true, less maintenance and better for your wrists. The quality and sharpness is unparalleled.
@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5dude, it’s just a pair of nice expensive scissors. Calm down.
@@mchanz3584 let homie enjoy their little luxuries. They're hurting no one and get to spend all day working with their favorite tool.
@@mchanz3584 nope 25 years strong is excellent scissors
So true was given as a gift on my graduation... I was 16.. they thought I was19.. I was honored an at 56 I still have an use them.. I have sent them away to maker for care an maintenance after 20 years had past... Lol!
cut your own hair using scissors then only you will understand@@mchanz3584
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So when i was cutting my own hair, i did it with random scissors i found in my parents kitchen. Pretty soon i found out that it didn't a good job at all. My parents also did have a hairdressers set, but those scissors were almost as bad as the kitchen ones. Then i saved up and bought the cheapest ones from a professional shop, those cost me around 30usd and that seemed like an insane amount of money for me for "just" scissors and were more pricey that my parents whole hairdresser set. But the difference was day and night. From that day i knew i would never cut my hair with random household scissors again.
About a year later a professional hairdresser stayed about a week at our house and offered everyone free hair appointments to thank us for the stay. So i gave her my 30usd scissors and asked her professional opinion on quality. She said: so glad that i don't have to do it with household scissors 😄👍 but compared to mine, they are beyond bad. I feel the difference immediately and ive never had scissors this bad before. Even for training our school didn't allow this poor quality. That's when i understood. While they are good enough for me, you def get what you pay for
The man who cut my hair until just recently when he retired, had some of the sane scissors he had been using since the late 80’s or early 90’s. They were expensive, but so we’ll made that they lasted, and he only had to rarely have them sharpened. I love things like that. They’ve gotten harder and harder to find today. I also have been to Japan a few times, and something that a very much admire about most Japanese, is their patience, cleanliness, appreciation of everything, and how they put such attention to detail and pride in everything that they do. That’s another thing that I feel like a lot of people in other places don’t do anymore. If they ever did at all.
@cgimovieman
At one time, the artisans of all cultures took great pride in their work. Indias' artisans still takes great pride in their work and creations. Some remote weaving villages take great pride in their work!
However, todays' generations (being born 1957, with older parents), do not have the concentration, focus and patience needed. Not all but some. The other day I watched a small doc on a fashion designer who takes interest in French mens' fashions of the 1940s and '50s. All wonderful but for the shoes! His white buck leather Wallabees were "noticably" dirty and scuffed - so much so I thought they were passing over them - until they focused on the shoes. He likes that "look" on his shoes. He looks pristine and well put together until you get to his feet.
Now - - does this mean I can wear my old and worn white buck leather loafers as he does or am I old fashioned? That's all it takes for ones' work to be well polished or not. His shoes give him 95, not 100
😂😂😂
This is how we can fight global waste. Quality products like these.
It's not all rainbows and sunshine. Death by overwork exists too and some stupid rules too like unpaid overtime, being forced to accompany your bosses on a midnight pub crawl on a weekday (for this part the youtuber sora the troll explains it best) which ironically has the opposite effect and reduces productivity. Of course this only applies to corporate work and not craftmanship shown in the video.
@@kiyoponnnyeah but they got cool shit too shut up doomer
@@LIZZIE-lizzie I wouldn't blame "todays generation" so much as I would blame todays economy and politics. There's just no room in todays culture to let artisans produce in weeks, what machines can do in minutes. We live in an age of economies of scale, where everything has to be quick and easy to make. A damn shame really.
Mad respect to the Japanese scissor makers. That's something special.
they are indeed special and top of the line quality, but the narration is overly exaggerated, "mathematical precision" no math at all lol
Amazing product. Japan takes such care in creating so many things. Unreal!
All _Naruto Scissors_ employees are instructed, upon hiring, that they can run to their hearts' content, but never, ever with scissors.
This is how products should be. Expensive, but perfect and last for a long time.
There's a reason why they don't really do "So Expensive" for designer clothes, most of it is just overpriced garbage, but a good, high quality suit? or a pair of pants that if treated right can last you decades? yeah that's worth making videos about, extend that to quality tools, and you have this video
There should be low price alternatives too. But I get what you're saying. Quality over quantity.
Not everything has to be. Cheap and disposable has its place.
So I’m very into fashion, not to be confused with luxury clothing (think Gucci t shirts, Armani exchange hoodie, etc), and honestly the quality of some very expensive items I have isn’t amazing. Many of them have ripped easily or faded quickly. I love fashion but it is what it is. There are exceptions for sure but for the most part that is my experience
This is how products should be out of reach for 99.99% of people. 200x more expensive than what people can afford
My Mizutanis were $1200, I use them all day long and they’re amazing
Mizutani for life 🧡
Mizutani is wooden garbage if you ever in your life happen to hold Naruto or Hikari Dragon Cosmos in your hands you will gasp
These guys almost need to start putting a laser etched serial number on their scissors so they can be tracked and registered as authentic. Im sure it would be beneficial to such a high end product to have some way of digitally authentication their products as legit. Could even help with product warrenty, sharpening, and maintenance plans.
They would rather hand chisel or carve the numbers in... They pride themselves in hand made products, not laser etching with computers.
@@zac08 then do that :D he still got a point
@@zac08womp womp
Yeah good idea
I dont think you understand that level of craftmanship. They will very well know, if a scissor that was sent to them is of their production.They will only need to hit the base of it with one wooden hammer once and they will know so many things about that scissor, just from the sound it makes.
Professional hair scissors are crafted to perfection. They must have the perfect shape. Probably explains the price tag.
😂😂😂😂 As if other scissors have imperfect shapes
@@succesthobela7084they do though. Have you tried to cut cloth using a bad pair of scissors
@@Alsry1ignore cloth, even plastic is hard
nah, it's just japanese
@@Alsry1 a $12 pair of fiskars will do a better job than any of these $3000 pairs lol
ANYTHING JAPAN: "It takes years to master putting the scissors in the presentation box"
It's abit ridiculous everything of theirs is over the top their fruit and now scissors 😊
So what about a $100k/1 jet engine propeller blade? it's just a piece of steel with a curved shape
When it comes to perfection, there’s only one word. JAPAN 🇯🇵
If a Japanese person wants perfection, he/she won't stop until perfection is achieved. Price and money means nothing to them.
Yes, I have perfected the way to make high end rods of protactinium after 50 years!
Except when you're talking firearms, than you have to look to companies like Holland and Holland, Bergara, Korth, etc. in England, the United States, and a handful of European countries.
@@cathoderay305 their Type 10 Tank is quite something, firearms no idea,maybe time for H&K to open up a plant there.
@@flummi6966 Japanese firearms have the problem that seems to plague cultures which are not currently gun obsessed. They were designed by Engineers with little to no input from actual end users. They are working to improve that, but it is a long time coming.
"quality cannot be imitated" that's all the difference! Amazing
unlike the Chinese philosophy, quantity and knock off is all they do
Honestly 2K for something you will hold 70% of your work time is not that crazy of a price
"Quality can not be imitated". Well said Sir
I'm always amazed by artisans and their passion for their craft. Yes they are always imitated but you cannot compare the quality and the craftsmanship of the original.
Back when I lived in Hokkaido, I used to go get my hair cut at a very friendly haidresser's place. We'd always chat and he once told me to guess how much his scissors cost - he was using one of these.
As you might guess, I completely missed the mark, hahaha
Ive been a barber for 16 years now and I can say her shear game is black belt level.
I love the So Expensive series. If it hasn't yet been made, it would be great to have one on Why Flowers Are So Expensive.
I appreciate his mentality: our quality speaks for itself. If you buy a copy, you will only be disappointed and you'll eventually come back to us for the real thing.
The Japanese can make everything, except children :)
Japanese pride in their products is something I respect immensely. If I want to be confident in getting a quality product, and i am willing to pay the extra money, Japan is always a safe bet.
Japan is the country to take true pride in their work for anything/everything
My partner is a cosmetologist and cuts hair for a living. She has 'OK' shears in the $500 range, but she has been using them for 12 years and has had to sharpen them about five times. She's not making money during 'downtime' when the shears are being sharpened, so the ability to hold an edge is critical. Hair shears are really an extension of the person's hand, and they must feel like an extension of the hand to work quickly without wrist or hand pain as barbers and cosmetologists are using them for hours per day every day they work.
She has always wanted a nice pair of Naruto shears and may consider a pair in a few years as a gift to herself. She's afraid of how long it will take to get used to them since her current shears are as natural to her as having fingers at this point.
When she orders her's, send that pair of scissors to them along with the order. That way, they know how to design the handle to fit into your friend's scissors handling habit. That way, even if she already got used to her current shears, the new one won't feel alien in her hand.
just buy 2 pairs of the $500 so she has something to use while the others are being shaprpened. problem solved.
@@Mr_Smackle yeah. And it would still cost half the price than to buy those naruto scissors. I don't know what theese guys are on about. It's just a pair of glorified scissors
That’s a very nice holster for her shears and tools. The Japanese as usual are always passionate at what they do.
I'd love to show this to my guy who's been cutting my hair since the 1990s. In my mind there's no doubt he can cut with shears from the dollar store 😂 What a great gift this would make!
It's a thoughtful gesture but I'd steer away from ever buying a craftsman a surprise new tool. Every craftsman or tradesman develop strong preferences towards specific tools that suit their individualistic needs. There may be a tool that is considered 'the best' but doesn't mean the best for everyone.
An expert in their field can work with anything and make a masterpiece out of it, the question is why would they want to when there are superior tools to enable them to produce something of higher and better quality.
@@quiet_shy
That's not even a question - they wouldn't.
@@nizlor
Absolutely and the best "gift" is cash.
@@LIZZIE-lizzie Should still be a nice conversation while there.There are good enough tools,and then there is that.
I love this stuff. Just masters making the best tools for other masters of their respective work.
I work at a company that makes lasers machines for cutting metals but this is something so simple yet sophisticated compared to all the science and measurements and maths that goes into my work. Really nice to see that some can improve even the seemingly mundane to this outstanding level.
In germany it's precision by measurements. In japan it's by your instincts because you've been doing it for x years. An ocd person like me resonates well with products made from these countries.
I'll take measurements anyday. The obsession with "I've been doing it for X amount of years" is the most pretentious and self-aggrandizing shit I've ever seen. It's a way to artificially drive up prices due to to the inefficient man hours needed to produce products. Life isn't a videogame where you unlock special talents and skills at arbitrary years of experience. A "Master" with 40+ years of GOOD experience and something to show for it can train up a novice extremely quickly compared to other craftsman who had no formal teacher. That novice will produce items that took others decades to learn.
@@arthurtamerango1089 People say things like that until they actually use it. There are reasons why professionals who knows what they are doing choose these product.
There's some different level of craftsmanship when it comes to Japanese people
I'm a Hairstylist myself for over nearly 16 years,
And yes our Hair Shears cost that much,
Why?
Because the quality, sharpness, craftsmanship and the history late back from world war 2.
Hence the only country produce the best shears is,
Japan.
Japan doing it right as always
As a hairdresser and has friends who make scissors. The women in the video is getting rip off a good cobalt scissor who cost anything from £250-£500. Not £2000-£3000. I get my scissors from Dowa international here in the UK and they have a factory in Japan
That is why I frowned when a hairdresser takes out an electric shaver😂always request scissor cut and use the electric shaver to trim..not to use the electric for the whole haircut session..that is just laziness and lack of skills
Let me guess only after 35 year apprenticeship you aren’t allowed to touch the scissors then a 10 year post apprenticeship to put them together,then a 3 year waiting list for a position then 10 years cleaning them only then you’re allowed to build your own scissors with a limit amount of 1 pair per year 😂
Yeah bro, ain't easy to go up in the ranks
You definitely have my sub. This content is next level. For me cannafarm ltd was the turning point. Please keep doing what you do and keep being you, love it.
These scissors remind me of Ernest Wright handmade scissors. If you are on the fence about getting these kinds of scissors, don't let the cost scare you off, as they are soooo worth it.
The best scissors (for cutting fabrics and canvas, not hair) that I've seen were still made in England. Where are the Ernest Wright's made?
@@cathoderay305, Sheffield
If they last decades without sharpening then I guess it’s worth the price
... they're* worth the price.*
wow, its amazing how the heck they figured out what makes the scissors being sharpen over time. Its mind blowing how they found away to maintain the sharpness of the scissors. 🤯🤯🤯🤯
With scissors this expensive, no wonder hairdressers try to get as much use out of them as possible, even when I wanted just a trim
"Why Japanese artisans spend 7 years to make one piece of paper...and the price will surprise you"
The warp is nothing special, and I’m not sure why you’re painting is as such. I have a pair of £4 cloth shears with the same “innovation”. What’s special about these is that everything is done by hand and you’re paying for the experience of the craftsmen behind them
0:01 They're a nice pair of scissors, I'll give you that. But the engraving gives you no tactical advantage whatsoever.
i dont think its worth that
also, within the first minute you contradict yourself. specialized design that never wears down and lasts for decades.... that rarely need to be sharpened.... so which one is it???
also, it doesnt require MATHEMATICAL PRECISION when you say in the sentence earlier that they do it by eye. one is intuition and experience, the other is numerical science. those processes contradict each other
also, 40% of expenses on the scissors is TINY. there isnt much material used and its also not very expensive material. so are you telling me that that bit of metal and sharpening equipment costs 1800 bucks?
that "amazing" mechanism to connect the blades is a simple spring tension mechanism..
them saying that SOME clients bring in scissors that are decades old means most of them dont. but then lets say all the scissors last a worklifetime so 40 years or so. that still means you could buy scissors worth 75 dollars every other year and STILL ONLY PAY HALF!!!!
"Ours are not the only scissors targeted by foreign counterfeiters. LOL, China.
I cannot believe this is done entirely by hand. If this was America, they would’ve had this down to an algorithm optimizing the pitch angle of the scissors. God bless artisans like these. 😊
Nearly had a panic attack when I heard that name of the brand
Japanese products are truly Awesome and World best.
"artisans spend hours perfecting the blades of scissors that can last decades"
My father bring scissor he found in the garbage, it was used for a stylist for no one know how many years and we use them for 40 years and counting and those scissors was not $2,000 fancy stuff.
Instead of "Why are these items so expensive" Insider Business should title it, "How do these 'things' become so expensive". Usually its the process that is expensive because it feels like they answer their own question with just the intro.
After watching how they are made I'm surprised how cheap they are😂
it's nice to see an artisan craft which has a growing demand. many handmade, precision goods like this are losing their audience, or just becoming irrelevant in the modern day.
the artisan spirit is the reason why Japan makes so many of the world's best thing, from beef to scissors.
The lady says he doesn't use a measuring instrument and does it by eye ... as we see him using a straight edge ... which is a measuring instrument to measure straightness
Are you not smart enough to know that or do you think we are not smart enough to notice ?
Even after 19 Years, the Shintato San says he is not an expert, 5:28 Greatest Respect to him..
If you get a haircut using these scissors, your hair won't grow beyond that point of cut.
Stylist: I cannot afford more than one pair of Naruto shears/scissors
Customer support: *Kage Bunshin No Jutsu*
And some of these scissors are so sharp that hair automatically falls off when bring it close to the head. True Story..
There ARE no good, or even mediocre, hair scissors for ten bucks. period. even the cheap pairs we used to buy were 20 and that was decades ago. a BEGINNER, Cosmetology student pair of hair scissors is over 100
The biggest wow factor for me is knowing they can go for so long without sharpening. Extremely impressive, given that Japanese people(look at my name, people) have some extreme hair types.
Japanese craftsmen are so obsessed with perfection, and they hate after sales complaints and servicing their defective products
It takes 22y for someone just to learn how to hold these scissors. Learning to cut takes another 31y. Becoming an average hairdresser takes a whole lifetime. Perfection can never be attained in a single life.
hue hue
Anything handmade in Japan is expensive, not a surprise...!!!
Still overpriced and its not like you dont need to sharpen them. Meme
If I’ve learned anything it’s the answer to “what makes this product so expensive?” 90 percent of the time it’s because of Japan.
i love japan country i love japan people i love go to japannnnnnnn 😭😭😭
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Beautiful high quality work. Quite the rarity these days, where everything revolves around quantity over quality.
That's the one thing I hate the most about the modern world.
Growing at 5.5% per year…. Come on😂😂😂
Idk, this just seems silly to me.. They’re scissors.. Even if they wear down 100 times slower than a cheap pair, the cheap pair may be SO much more efficient to produce, that this extra efficiency is actually worse than just buying or repairing the cheaper pair. Seriously, $2k for scissors? It’s a piece of sharp metal, you don’t need to overthink everything..
It takes over 700 years of strict study under a master to learn how to properly clip your toenails in japan.
Just program some machines to follow the pattern, bring down the price and more people could have comfortable scissors. (btw, 40% of $2500 is 1k; this guy makes 1k dollars per scissor.)
Yeah, increase output!! That's the capitalist way, the american way, then complain later when your shit breaks quickly.
All of us that have experienced a bad haircut. Can truly appreciate the tools that beauticians use. To give us that perfect cut.
Nothing is like that confidence of leaving the barbershop / salon feeling like a million bucks.
Exactly; the price of the scissors is more than made up for by the satisfaction of customers. Happy customers are going to become repeat business.
😮💨👍
You can buy a cheap shear and a sharping stone.
Give me a break…there are no scissors in the world worth that kind of money
I remember thinking I was ballin when I spent £500 on mine 😂
Its an investment on your business. Quality assets/tools gives lifetime return. If i am paying 100-200 for a haircut their scessor better made with gold, diamonds and dianosorce bones!!! 😂
Japan is a special place with special people 🇯🇵 Great minds.
Professional Hair dresser really got me going 💀
So buying one for $2000 that will last say 40 years (overall price for 40 years:$2000X1= $2000)
Vs
Buying one for $50 that works well and say breaks every 3-4 years i.e. 3.5 yrs( overall price for 35 years : $50X10= $500)
So, it boils down to how much you wanna spend for quality only and how much are you willing invest in a product that may not give you the liquidity you need at times you want.
Money laundering, all these "So Expensive" pieces are money laundering.
It's really not. As it turns out, it's expensive to do things traditionally with care and attention to detail AND it's also expensive to pay employees a fair wage. There's a reason the German made LAMY fountain pens can cost as much as $400.... and half of it is because everyone is payed what they are worth
@@elk3407it is
have a friend who is a hairdresser and owns a pair of these. They won them at a competition of some sort. They said the average pair of sheers costs 2-6 hundres usd so this is a big step up haha
*There is a factory of High-end Garbage Can in Japan named Sakura Kabushiki - Gaisha.*
😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏😏
I love this kind of craftsmanship. It's so rare to see these days.
it never ceases to amaze me how many are willing to pay so much more for dumb shit just because its labelled "japanese"
Why don't they use cnc machines and precise computers? No eye can match cnc and robots.
Waste of time.
Give you an example, highly skilled coach builders used to build Ferrari. Today's simple KIA has perfect panel gaps compared to Ferraris build by hand.
Here's the problem that i have with this story, I've used german scissors,Brazilian scissors,I've bought scissors that where cheap and was very good and i bought scissors that was expensive and was crap.I have about 30 years in textile and the problem is that alot of companies lost their quality for quantity.I still have my almost 30 years german scissor.
In America you have shears for hair and scissors for paper, in Britain we have shears for the garden or sheep and scissors for hair, hair shears just sounds wrong with a RP accent
There is a multi thousand dollar japanese version of literally every inanimate object you can think of
In only 30sec in and I can tell you this. If you think knife people are crazy about their blades, just wait until you use a seamstress’s good fabric scissors on literally anything but fabric.
That shit’ll put the fear GOD into your heart.
Damm you Insider Business, I thought I was psychic or maybe a time traveler but
no, y'all are just re-uploading old videos from years ago.
Can't blame you, its much easier to re-upload old videos than make new ones.
I don't cut hair, I hardly even cut stuff.. but I want one now. I hate this series, everything they show makes me think "man, I need this." Lucky for me, the old wallet stops me. Good boy.
Basically, this is a irreplaceable business. No real competitors unless ex-workers form a different company.
The labor is expensive and so specialized, it's impossible to duplicate.
7:50 This is a valuable opinion from a professional, when ever you need a tool
You could have stopped at ‘from Japan”. Personally I have ~$20k in japanese knives & cook-wear. Because “from Japan”.
If 1000 years of Human lifespan possible then please give it to Japanese, only they can work for 1000 years keep on improving year after year. There is something in Japanese which entire world put together doesn't have.
You are paying for the lore. If you pay this much, of course you are gonna stand by their quality. I'm sure they are of the highest quality, but the Japanese have done an excellent job creating this myth around their steel products. I am absolutely positive that a calibrated machine could do a more consistent, possibly better job.