noun
- a person trained to style and dress the hair; hairdresser.Compare esthetician(def 2).
- a manager or an employee of a beauty parlorbeauty salon.
noun
- a person who works in or manages a beauty salon
first recorded 1924, American English (the Cleveland, Ohio, telephone directory, to be precise), from beauty + ending as in technician. Beauty salon is from 1922, a substitution for prosaic beauty shop (1901).