beautician

[byoo-tish-uhn]

noun

1. a person trained to style and dress the hair; hairdresser.

2. a manager or an employee of a beauty salon.

beautician

/ bjuːˈtɪʃən /

noun

1. a person who works in or manages a beauty salon

Word History and Origins

Origin of beautician¹

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25; beaut(y) + -ician

Example Sentences

Healthcare professionals have warned that Scotland is the worst country in Europe for unqualified beauticians injecting customers with cosmetic treatments.

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He then explained how beauticians could use a genuine patient's prescription to order extra vials and keep the spare doses for other paying clients.

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The beautician who carried out Mrs Howson's treatment was prosecuted for unlawfully practising dentistry and was ordered to pay £250 compensation.

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But undercover BBC researchers caught several pharmacists trying to prescribe the medicine to beauticians to use on people who had not been clinically assessed.

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Earlier this year, a sudden outbreak of botulism across England left dozens of young women in hospital, some partially paralysed, after being injected with black-market Korean toxin sold by beauticians as a Botox-style treatment.

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