What is your favorite term for a fixer of hair, mostly for women?

[greekspeak]

Just curious. My grandmother went to the "beauty shop" to get her hair done by a "beauty operator." I get a kick out of that. It sounds like someone who works to make telephones more stylish

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Still holding a license, I prefer the term stylist, although I'm out of th

biz....and cosmetologist is even better. These people do go through a lot of training and a lot of $$$ for said training and proper equipment. I ground my teeth sometimes when my "breadnbutter" ladies aka the "bluehairs" called my their "Beautician". :hi:

[Sanity Claws]

2. Beautician sounds very old fashioned

I haven't heard the word in years.

[greekspeak]

7. I cannot imagine when my grandmother would come to you and

ask you to be her "beauty operator." She would also bring her own "blue rinse" in a little paper bag. In a gray bottle with pink printing and pink cap. She was also very hard on stylists over the years. "I just cannot stand that Joyce anymore. I need a new operator."

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Ahhhh Fanciful rinses...I'm quite familiar with them. Most of my ladies

liked silver lining, although I had one who used Bashful Beige and one who used Copper Penny. It's funny, because we had the whole collection, and yet most of my ladies brought their own in. :hi:

And I never lost a client...they just tended to pass away. :(

[greekspeak]

14. I never understood the bringing of rinse either

But my grandmother did and so did her sister Goldie. They got their hair done every saturday, then went to a grocery store they hated (although there were others right by it) and then to this restaurant where they ordered the same thing every week and it was done wrong every week. The wild life of the merry widow of the 70's and 80's. WOOHOO!

[stevedeshazer]

3. Edith

I'm a guy, but I'm speaking for my mom.

She's been a customer for 55 years. Edith is 80 and still runs her own shop. Mom is 77.

Mom just tells me that it's time to go see Edith. :)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. I go to my hairdresser.

[bigwillq]

5. Hair Dresser (nt)

[Grey]

16. I say Hairdresser

But that is so 'Canadian'.......

[Clintmax]

6. My grandmother also called her hairdresser...

a Beauty Operator.

[greekspeak]

8. LOL Arent you supposed to be in Jacksonville?

:hug:

[Clintmax]

9. Why yes I am!

:hug:
This Radisson is SO nice! You should see the room they gave me! "Sleep Number Bed" and all!
:woohoo:

[greekspeak]

10. Sleep number schmeep number

[Clintmax]

11. *grin*

I wish I were back in Tallahassee, though.

[Clintmax]

13. Hey, Greekspeak...

check your inbox, please!

[greekspeak]

15. mmkay

[Jamastiene]

17. Cosmetologist. Oddly enough,

back in high school, I didn't take one single cosmetology class, yet I was offered a scholarship to a school for that purpose. I was an idiot. I turned it down. Imagine me, turned loose with razors, scissors, and hair dye in different colors? Now, imagine all the punk rock haircuts you've ever seen. I would have had a field day. Notice, I said field day, not field days... I imagine they'd stop me after a couple of hours, but I would have made my mark. :evilgrin:

[trackfan]

18. My mother always said "beauty operator"

We thought that was kind of funny and old fashioned. Both of my sisters are "beauty operators"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. For me, it's hair dresser....no idea why!