A hairdresser is a person whose occupation is to cut or style hair in order to change or maintain a person's image. This is achieved using a combination of hair coloring, haircutting, and hair texturi
Hairdresser washing a woman's hair
A caricature of a French hairdresser at the Académie de Coiffure, working on a large hairstyle, fashionable of the time, in the 18th century.
A picture of a hairstylist coloring her client's hair
Shelf with a great number of different hair colours, each having a colour code printed on the packaging, at a hairdresser in Germany. In practice, often two or more colours are mixed with each other to achieve a certain intermediate colour tone, which requires significant experience.
A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards. A barber's place of work is known as a barbershop, barbing salon or the barber's. Barbershops have
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…image. This is achieved using a combination of hair coloring, haircutting, and hair texturing techniques. A hairdresser may also be referred to as a 'barber' or 'hairstylist'. Hairdressing as an occupation dates back thousands of years. Both Aristophanes and Homer, Greek writers, mention hairdressing in…
A barber shaping his customer's beard in Ahvaz, Iran, c. 2022
A traditional Hausa barber (Wanzami)
Boiotian Greek painted terracotta figure dating between c. 500 and c. 475 BCE, showing a barber cutting a man's hair, currently in the Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
Barber on the Hofämterspiel card game, 15th century