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Beauty Salon Vocabulary: Translating Spanish to English Words


Beauty Salon Vocabulary: Translating Spanish to English WordsGetting your haircut can be a scary experience anytime, but if you add in language barriers, it can be downright terrifying. If you find yourself in a Spanish speaking country in dire need of a trim, here are some helpful basic Spanish phrases that just might save you from a disastrous haircut.

Beauty Salon Vocabulary in Spanish for Ladies

1. Peluquería / salón / beauty – a hair salon

2. Pelo /Cabello – hair

3. Las puntas – the tips or ends (usually your dead ends) “Corte las puntas, nada más, por favor” means “Cut the tips, nothing more, please.”

4. Puntas partidas /orquetillas – split ends

5. Las raíces / crecimiento – the roots, the growth

6. Canas – grey hair

7. Flequillo/pollina / fleco – bangs/fringe

8. Tinte / tintura / colorante – dye (noun)

9. Teñir / pintar – to color or dye (verb)

10. Brushing / Blower – blowdry / style. Un brushing is used in Argentina, while un blower is used in Puerto Rico

11. Gel – gel, in most countries you pronounce the “g” like an “h” as in hell but in Puerto Rico just say gel, the same as English

12. Laca / fijador / aerosol / spray – hairspray

13. Alisado – chemical straightening

14. Planchado – straightened using a flat iron

15. Rolos / rulos – curlers

16. Lavar – wash

Barber Shop Vocabulary

1. Barbería – a barbershop (not to be confused with barbaridad – barbarity)

2. Redondo – rounded, refers to the hair on the back of the head

3. Cuadrado – squared, refers to the hair on the back of the head

4. Patillas – sideburns

5. La máquina – clippers, shears

Buena suerte and remember, hair grows back!

Check out these other English Spanish articles.

Featured photo credit: Most Hair Cuts $6.99 by a4gpa via flickr

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