Hairdressing

thumb|A typical plastic comb

thumb|right|upright=1.3|Shampoo lather in hair thumb|right|upright=1.3|Bottles of shampoo and lotions manufactured in the early 20th century by the C.L. Hamilton Co. of [[Washington, D.C., United States]]

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 or '''the barber's'''. Barbershops have been noted places of social interaction and public discourse since at least classical antiquity. In some instances, barbershops were also public forums. They were the locations of open debates, voicing public concerns, and engaging citizens in discussions about contemporary issues.

thumb|upright|A conventional hime cut wig

thumb|Chinese woman with an elaborate hair style, 1869 thumb|right|nihongami|Traditional hairstyle of a Japanese bride

thumb|right|Hairdresser washing a woman's hair

type of appliance used to dry hair

thumb|A modern hair pin, typically used for formal styling such as updos and buns thumb|Hairpins (around 600 BC) thumbnail|A golden double-spiral-headed pin from Georgia (3rd millennium BC)

thumb|A traditional vermilion red or orange-red colored cosmetic powder thumb|Sindoor daan in Bengali Hindu wedding thumb|'Sindhooram charthal' ceremony in Malayali Hindu wedding, [[Kerala]] Sindoor (, ) or sindura (,) is a traditional vermilion red or orange-red or maroon cosmetic powder from South Asia, usually worn by married women along the part of their hairline. In Hindu communities, the sindoor is considered auspicious and is a visual marker of marital status of a woman and ceasing to wear it usually implies widowhood.

machine razor

A hairbrush is a brush with rigid (hard or inflexible) or light and soft spokes used in hair care for smoothing, styling, and detangling human hair, or for grooming an animal's fur. It can also be used for styling in combination with a curling iron or hair dryer.

any hairstyle made by treating the head hair with chemical substances to have a long-lasting wavy or curly effect

small tube that is rolled into a person's hair in order to curl it

thumb|right|A tin of Royal Crown Hair Dressing alt=Sweet Georgia Brown Hair Dressing Pomade from 1947|thumb|Sweet Georgia Brown Hair Dressing Pomade from 1947

Panthenol (also called pantothenol) is the alcohol analog of pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), and is thus a provitamin of B5. In organisms, it is quickly oxidized to pantothenic acid. It is a viscous transparent liquid at room temperature. Panthenol is used in pharmaceutical and children's products as a moisturizer and to hasten wound healing.

Hair styling tool with heating element

upright=1.3|thumb|A modern set of the type worn by (apprentice geisha) for the month of January

thumb|Bahram II|Iranian king wearing headband right|thumb|A hard plastic headband, or Alice band thumb|Baby wearing a headband

clip for the hair

fashion accessory used to bind up hair

1990 film by Patrice Leconte

cosmetic act of keeping hair clean by washing it

type of sign used by barbers

Hair styling technique

compound oil used for hair grooming

thumb|Kumkuma powder from Mysore, India.

chemical compound

flat, springlike metal hairpin

thumb|Gajra thumb|Gajra are traditionally worn around hair bun. thumb|Indian Ladies with Gajra during religious Function A Gajra is a flower garland that is worn by Pakistani and Indian women during festive occasions, weddings, or as part of everyday traditional attire. They are made usually of varies types of jasmine flowers but rose, crossandra and barleria are also widely used in gajras. It can be worn both on the bun and with the braid coiling. Women in Pakistan, South India, Maharashtra, Gujarat usually wear them with traditional attire. It is also worn on the wrist mainly during festive

hygiene and cosmetology involving human hair

hair product

thumb|right|250px|A child with a double crown

The () is a traditional Korean wig worn by women. Historically, were expensive accessories worn only by women of high social standing, alongside . They were decorated with silk objects, gold, jewels, silver, coral, jade, and other expensive materials. Certain decorations were reserved for royalty.

thumb| with dragon head thumb| A (; ) is a Korean traditional hairpin for fixing ladies' chignons. Its main purpose is to pin the chignon in place, but it also serves as ornamentation, and it has different usages or names according to its material or shape. Therefore, it is possible to identify one's social status by looking at their . are divided into two kinds, a (; ) and a ( ). have a long body and have an upturned 'U' shape. are usually used by women, but they are also used by men to fix their (topknots) in place.

species of plant

armchair for barber or hairdresser

scissors specifically designed for cutting hair

keeping hair clean without commercial shampoo

thumb|upright|A dressing the hair of professional sumo wrestler Takayasu Akira|Takayasu A is a traditional Japanese hairdresser specializing in the theatrical arts (kabuki and ) and professional sumo. The trade is the result of a slow evolution from the traditional Japanese barbers of the Edo period, some of whom gradually started to specialize in hairstyles of actors, puppets, and . The word uses a Japanese character meaning 'floor', because in the Edo period barbers had shops on simple raised floors.

decorated comb used ceremonially in medieval European Christianity

event with a special significance in certain cultures and religions

thumb|François Marcel marcelling his wife's hair, 1922

longish accessory used to hold a person's hair in place in a hair bun or similar hairstyle

American labor union

thumb|right|Silent film star Mary Pickford in 1919 Frizz is hair that does not align with the surrounding hair, but stands up or curls independently, creating a fuzzy or irregular texture. The three main causes of frizz are genetics, hair damage, and humidity. Frizzy hair can be seen as a positive or a negative trait depending on the current fashion and one's personal preference. Many hair products, such as gels, pomades, and hair waxes, are designed to reduce frizz.

American company manufacturing grooming products

Chinese hair ornaments