All hair scissors are made with stainless steel that is manufactured in either Japan, Korea, Germany, Taiwan, China, India or Pakistan. Hair scissors with steel from made in Japan is regarded as the best scissor steel in the world. Korean, Taiwanese, and Chinese steels are good, but tend to be a little softer metal and do not hold an edge as well as Japanese steels. Hair Scissors made with steel from Pakistani and Indian are the poorest quality and do not sharpen or hold an edge well. Hair scissors made with German steel are very hard steel, usually too hard to sharpen to a razor edge.