Scissors might be the number one tool a stylist can’t live without, but frantically clipping at its heels is the clipper. Increasingly, stylists are turning to this electrical tool as they begin to experiment with new techniques.

But before we get on to the looks you can create using clippers, Laura VanderMoere, Wahl’s Director of Education, insists it’s imperative stylists understand how to handle clippers properly. She explains: “I see so many white-knuckled stylists who put a death grip on the clipper, and rightfully so, as they are heavier, larger and basically foreign to our hand.…