as in cosmetologist
a person whose job is to give beauty treatments to women by washing and cutting hair, applying makeup, etc.
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Recent Examples of beautician
She was inspired to pursue hairstyling as a profession after growing up in the Bay Area, witnessing her mother’s career as a beautician.
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Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
When graduates of a basic beautician course said the market wanted nail art and advanced hairstyling, the team launched an advanced track in Bhopal.
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
In recent years, lawmakers approved legislation to require beauticians and hairstylists to undergo training in detecting trafficking signs in their clients.
—Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Noem was also depicted being trailed by a team of beauticians having to reattach her face.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
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Essence, 24 Sep. 2025
When graduates of a basic beautician course said the market wanted nail art and advanced hairstyling, the team launched an advanced track in Bhopal.
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
In recent years, lawmakers approved legislation to require beauticians and hairstylists to undergo training in detecting trafficking signs in their clients.
—Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Noem was also depicted being trailed by a team of beauticians having to reattach her face.
—Nino Paoli, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beautician
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Domestic violence training for cosmetologists Licensed hairdressers, nail technicians, barbers and other cosmetologists in Maryland will now be required to complete a one-hour domestic violence awareness training to renew their professional licenses.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
1 Jan. 2026
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It was launched by none other than Mario Badescu himself, a chemist and cosmetologist from Romania who started offering facial services out of his Manhattan apartment (this is exactly where, as legend has it, Badescu first formulated the Drying Lotion).—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
5 Nov. 2025
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If all that counts is inward essence, what the hell were those teams of makeup artists, coiffeurs, and cinematographers employed by the major studios, in the golden age, doing all day?—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2024
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Toussaint, who was literate, socially adroit and a talented fiddler, was apprenticed as a coiffeur and was permitted to keep some of his earnings; Schuyler and her sister-in-law, Eliza Hamilton — the wife of Alexander Hamilton — were among his earliest clients.—
Elizabeth Stone,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2024
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“Beautician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beautician. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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