When we think of visiting a hairdresser, we often visualise clean, modern salons with reclining chairs and washbasins, the hum of hairdryers, chemical odours stinging our eyes, and the hairdressers themselves, often dressed in black, with skills many of us just couldn’t live without – something we all discovered during lockdown!
Hairdressers are both male and female, often apprenticed and trained and, as with so many professions both past and present, suffer from occupational-related afflictions such as lower back pain, dermatitis, and respiratory disorders.
The hairdresser, or hair cutter, emerged separately from barbers at a time when wigs became unfashionable and the focus turned to wearing real hair. This led to an inevitable conflict with A barber and his client, 1866.
Once wigs fell out of fashion, hairdresser and barber…
