Thursday, June 27, 2013

Brushes and combs


  I am very picky about my equipment at work. Most of my brushes have a nifty ergonomic handle that keeps my wrist from hurting quite so much. Unfortunately for me, wrist pain is rather inevitable but I do my best to deal with it. They also have combs with handles like this, but somehow I find the traditional Greyhound style combs to be the most comfortable.
A curved, sometimes called universal, slicker brush with a white ergonomic handle.
This is the handle my brushes have.
   Here's were the "very" picky part comes in. I am the looney who can tell my comb from another comb that looks just like it. My instructor grabbed my comb to demonstrate something.. then set it somewhere and spent the rest of the day handing me combs that looked like my comb and weren't my comb. Finally I picked up my comb and was like  THIS is my comb!
   I dropped my comb about a month ago and broke five teeth out of the fine side of the comb, making it rather unsuited to its job. I bought one to replace it right away. And. I. Hated. That. Comb. Immediately. It had a rounded spine instead of a flat spine. So I sprung for another comb by the same manufacturer as the first comb.. It still feels different than my comb but I suppose I will get used to it.

Soon I will blabber about my nifty new clippers!