Tweezers are small, inexpensive tools that are used to pick up, hold, remove and maneuver objects that are too small to be held by your fingers. The tweezer has a wide variety of uses and is useful in the home, craft shops, in professional beauty salons and spas and in hospitals and doctors' offices. The shape of the tip of a tweezer often determines how the tweezers are best used.
Angle-Tip
If you're looking for a tweezer that provides excellent control and causes minimal injury to your skin, the angle-, or slant-tip tweezer is a good choice. Tweezers that have an angled tip are good for grooming eyebrows and for removing stray facial hair; they allow you to grasp the root of the hair and remove it without breaking the hair or causing damage to the surrounding skin.
Precision-Tip Tweezers
The precision-tip tweezer, also known as a needle-nose tweezer, is designed with a tip that is long and pointed. Use a precision-tip tweezer to remove fine facial hair and eyebrows. The narrow tip allows you to tweeze under the skin in order to grasp and extract ingrown hairs from the arms, legs and face. The sharp end of the tweezers make them ideal for gripping and removing embedded splinters and debris from cuts and scrapes.
Blunt-Tip
When you need to remove large areas of hair, the blunt-tip tweezer is the best choice. The square, flat edge provides a wider gripping area that will grasp more hairs at one time. They are ideal for removing thick, coarse hair from the body. Avoid using blunt-tipped tweezers on the sensitive skin of your face, especially in the eye area, as their flat edges can tear or scratch fragile tissue.
Rounded-Tip
Tweezers that have a rounded tip are considered appropriate for delicate areas of the face and body. Their smooth, rounded edges cause the least amount of damage to the skin. The round-tipped tweezers are easy to control and allow you to grasp thin, fine hairs by the roots for quick removal. Rounded-tip tweezers with an angled edge are called Ramy tweezers.
Other Tweezers
Stamp collectors use tweezers to handle their stamps to avoid damaging and devaluing the stamp. Collectors favor pointed tweezers to pick up single stamps and they use spade-tipped tweezers to hold small stacks of stamps firmly without damaging them.
Remove harmful ticks by using special pointed tweezers that are made to extract ticks from you or your pet. (see reference 3)
Tweezers that are long and slender with narrow or curved tips are helpful to those who pursue other hobbies including coin collecting, scrap-booking, model building, bead work, sewing and quilting. (see reference 6)
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