Bokhari

Bokhari runs out of Smyrna, Tennessee, under the Icon Shears umbrella, and trades as Bokhari Professional. The pitch is aimed squarely at stylists who do the expressive stuff — slide cutting and advanced styling first, with blending, texturizing, and both wet and dry work folded in. That focus is the useful signal: this isn’t a one-blade-for-everything brand, it’s built for hands that carve and slice rather than just chop a blunt line.

Two steels, two jobs

The catalogue splits sensibly along its steel. The baseline runs 440C Japanese stainless, the dependable workhorse grade that holds a clean edge at a reasonable price — a solid choice for everyday cutting and the entry into the line. Above it sits the Cobalt line, a Japanese VG-1 to VG-10 alloy with cobalt worked in to push the hardness up. That extra hardness is what lets the Cobalt pairs carry a full convex edge, the geometry that makes slicing and slide cutting feel effortless and is exactly what the brand is built around. If slide work is your bread and butter, that’s the line to look at.

The range and where to buy

Beyond the cutters, Bokhari stocks thinners, dedicated left-handed shears, razors, and accessories, so a stylist can outfit a whole kit from one brand. Pricing sits in the premium band, roughly 400 to 800 dollars, which the cobalt convex blades justify more than the 440C entries do.

Sales run direct through bokharishears.com. As an American brand built on slicing geometry, Bokhari knows the corner of the market it’s playing in, and it equips that corner well.