A professional who provides beauty services for customers. Respnsibilities include:

• Analyzes hair to ascertain condition of hair.
• Applies bleach, dye, or tint, using applicator or brush, to color customer's hair, first applying solution to portion of customer's skin to determine if customer is allergic to solution.
• Shampoos hair and scalp with water, liquid soap, dry powder, or egg, and rinses hair with vinegar, water, lemon, or prepared rinses.
• Massages scalp and gives other hair and scalp-conditioning treatments for hygienic or remedial purposes.
• Styles hair by blowing, cutting, trimming, and tapering, using clippers, scissors, razors, and blow-wave gun.
• Suggests coiffure according to physical features of patron and current styles, or determines coiffure from instructions of patron.
• Applies water or waving solutions to hair and winds hair around rollers, or pin curls and finger-waves hair.
• Sets hair by blow-dry or natural-set, or presses hair with straightening comb.
• Suggests cosmetics for conditions, such as dry or oily skin.
• Applies lotions and creams to customer's face and neck to soften skin and lubricate tissues.
• Performs other beauty services, such as massaging face or neck, shaping and coloring eyebrows or eyelashes, removing unwanted hair, applying solutions that straighten hair or retain curls or waves in hair, and waving or curling hair.
• Cleans, shapes, and polishes fingernails and toenails.
• May be designated according to beauty service provided as Facial Operator; Finger Waver; Hair Colorist; Hair Tinter; Marceller; Permanent Waver; Shampooer.