Cuticle cutting tweezers with progressive cutting edge engagement

Cuticle cutting tweezers having a pair of elongate mirror image shaped tweezer legs respectively located on both sides of a plane of symmetry, being connected to one another at one end, resiliently closable together at the other end by movement in a direction substantially perpendicular to said plane, and each provided at said other end with a tweezer jaw comprising a cutter with an outer cutter surface intersecting with an inner cutter surface at an acute angle to form a cutter edge, said cutter edge extending generally transversely of said direction and being inclined at an angle of 50.degree.-70.degree. relative to a plane which is normal to said plane of symmetry and passes substantially through said ends, the tweezer jaws tapering toward one end of the cutter edge to intersect therewith at an angle of 35.degree.-55.degree. to form a cutter tip, the outer and inner cutter surfaces being formed so that as a closing force is applied to the legs to cause the cutter edges to approach one another, the cutter edges rest on one another at first only at the cutter tips, diverging from said tips with a gap that closes upon a further progressive increase in said force, butting flush against one another when the tweezers are in the completely closed state.