Everyone is concerned with their appearance, which is why we have gone to someone to maintain our hair since the early centuries. As time passed, the many different methods and strategies of styling men’s hair has changed. From the different styles to the tools used this has all helped improve the process of styling and shaping men’s hair. Barbering has been revolutionized into the world today.
Barbering has been around for many centuries and has more and more of an effect as year’s pass. Barbering is one of the oldest professions in the world. The word barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave men's and boys' hair. Archeologists says that barbering was first founded in the glacier period (Goldwing, Bobby). The word barber came from the Roman (Latin) word 'Barba', meaning beard, that the word 'barber' is derived - and hence 'barbarians' as the name used during that period to describe tribes who were bearded. Barbering started in Egypt around 6000 years ago. Barbers were highly respected in
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the ancient years because they thought if you could cut hair you could do much more. Back in 1500 BC the art of barbering consisted of haircutting, shaving, hair coloring, facial make up. That is slightly more than barbers do today. For barbers back when barbering began razors were made of stone and rock. There were no clippers back then. Soon after barbering started barbers had sort of got transformed into surgeon assistants. When barbers got into this they were known for bloodletting which is the surgical removal of some of a patient's blood for therapeutic purposes. The barber pole came from barber surgeons when barbers used a cloth bandage to stop a person from bleeding out, and when the cloth bandage dried it was used as an emblem. It was replaced with a wooden pole with blue and red stripes. Barber surgeon created there first organization in France in 1906 B.C. Ever since barbers had because a part of surgery, most people had forgot about barbering. Soon after the first surgeons school was made barbering was forgot about. People weren’t thinking about getting their hair cut anymore, there were more important things happening in the world at the time. If you could cut hair you could stop someone from bleeding or heal someone who was bleeding. Yes, barbering had come to a complete fault for about two years. In 1745, a bill was passed separating barbers from surgeons. When the barber-surgeons separated, the barber kept the pole as their identification. The pole consists of red and white, or red, white and blue stripes. Red for blood, white for bandages and blue for veins as I stated earlier in the text. Most men of the colonial times were smooth shaven and many of the wealthy wore wigs. Also in the colonial days, barbering was not really considered a white man's trade. It was mostly taken over by black barbers. The wealthy became slave owners and the job of the barber was shifted to the servants. In 1865, after the Civil War with the of Dutch, Germans, Italians, and Swedish immigrants, the barber profession escalated. The Civil War that closely followed the Western movement brought many changes to America, including the re-establishment of the barber shop. In 1880, the average barber shop at this time cost approximately twenty dollars (which was a lot to come by back then) to equip and were ten by twelve feet in size. The shop consisted of a straight-backed chair with a head piece, a basin of water, a piece of common soap and a brush, lobby sitting chairs, and enough towels to last as we (The nation barbering museum). One towel to every ten to twelve customers. Haircuts were five or ten cents and shaves were three cents. In 1886, The Barbers Protective Union was made on December 6, 1886, in Columbus, Ohio. Soon after, The Protective Union became the Journeymen Barber's International on December 5, 1887. It was very late in 1893 when A.B. Moler opened the first Barber School in Chicago. He also made some barber textbooks at the time. In 1897 the state of Minnesota passed legislation for a barber license. For the next forty years almost all states followed & enacted legislation where barbers were licensed and tested / inspected for sterilization to protect the public people from disease. With the enactment of the licensing laws and stringent inspections, diseases such as impetigo, anthrax, ringworm and barbers itch are rarely heard of in today’s society. In the 1900, much changed from previous years.
During WWI, soldiers wore very short hair styles because of frequent body lice from trenches. No beards were worn and they shaved often so that gas masks would seal against the face. In 1959, Edmond O. Roffler developed the Roffler Sculptur-Kut technique, a method where barbers could get big money and capitalize on long hair. The Roffler-Kut system started with twenty barbers. The Roffler-Kut system now has over 6,000 barbers that have been trained in the Roffler Method (The national barbering museum). It is still being practiced today. In 1985, more and more women had started to get into the profession barbering. Which is pretty awkward because before our time women were not much of workers. In the present 2000, new technology and techniques continue to shape the future of barbering. Every year more young men and women choose the barber profession. The future of barbering is in their
hands. Barbering was home to many men and women. This profession is one of the oldest in the business. Also, this profession is getting larger and larger by day. If you were ever thinking of being a barber I’d say go for it. Why? Because there are many benefits to it. One thing is, you get to choose your hours. Two, you make what you want to make money wise. A barbershop is also the center for conversation so anything you want to know they know it. You also meet a lot of new friends and connection. As I stated earlier everyone is concerned with their appearance, so this profession will always be a consistent flow in the world today.
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In the short story “Just Lather, That’s All” by Hernando Tellez, the barber says little yet he is shown to be a complex character. The story is about the owner of a male haircut place. The male hair stylist has secretly become an informant for a band of rebels. When a violent/difficult military captain asks for a shave, the barber must decide whether to kill the captain or let him go. In the end, he decides he doesn't want blood on his hands. The barber is clever, patient and caring.
What does being a Cosmetologist entail? “Cosmetology is defined as the art and science of beautifying and improving application.”( Milady Standard cosmetology publish 2016 edition, Ted Gibson) Cosmetologist provide therapeutic services to their clients. Cosmetologist are not just hairstylist, they are therapist, lifetime friends, and possibly someone's personal fashion artist--regarding their hair and the newest trends. Cosmetologist consist of different jobs. Depending on how high their are in the industry affects their salary. How far does this industry expand? The industry of cosmetology evolved and unfurl throughout time.
As the glass door opens, the din from Second Street fades from your ears. The clean crisp cut of scissors, the flick of combs through wet hair, the buzz of electric clipping shears, and the occasional blast of air from a blow dryer captivate your sense of sound. Joe, a large, bald man, wearing an aqua T-shirt and blue jeans tied up with an old brown leather belt, gives his customary greeting, “Howdy there,” to a man who has just entered. The sign above Joe’s mirror reads: “Hair cuts—ten dollars, Seniors—eight dollars.” It is Saturday morning, and at Leo’s Barber Shop business is brisk. Joe and two other barbers are working at a fast clip, keeping their eyes on the scalps of the customers and periodically throwing quick glances to the line that is forming in the waiting area. Hector, wearing a maroon wind-breaker and baseball cap, is putting an apron on a kid to the right of Joe. Chris is trimming a man’s sideburns, leveling her green, contact-lens covered eye to the shears. Four chairs near the entrance are occupied by men of various sorts. Some are reading newspapers or magazines, while others sit looking out the front window. One man clad in denim is standing outside the shop with a cigarette held to his mouth. The barbers at Leo’s have their work cut out for them today.
The beard, which was worn in full at the beginning of the twelfth century, was modified both as to shape and length. At first it was cut in a point, and only covered the end of the chin. But the next fashion was to wear it so as to join the moustaches. Generally moustaches went out of fashion. Beards were worn only by country people, who, desired to preserve a "remembrance of their participation in the Crusades." At the end of the twelfth century, all chins were shaved.
What you need to know about the history of cosmetology.” Finally! What you need to know about the history of cosmetology. n.d. Web. 19 May 2014.
In the Short Story “Just Lather…That’s All” by Hernando Tellez. In this story, the protagonist is described as an ordinary barber, who finds himself in a sticky situation. The barber, who is a rebel in Colombia in 1948, when the government refused to agree with the people's demands for economic change. The barber has a surprise visit in his barber shop. One day the enemy captain of the military walks into the barber shop and wants a shave. The whole time when the barber is shaving the captain, he has an argument with himself on whether he should slit the throat of the captain seeing as it was all too easy. I think the razor in this story Represents barber’s personality and how he would deal with an enemy. (Would he
Hair is an important part of our body. It can be found anywhere and can be a useful evidence in forensic science. It consists of three layers, namely cuticle, cortex and medulla. Cuticle- is a covering that consists of hard scales made of keratin, which is a protein approaching tip ends of the hair. There are three types of cuticle: coronal, imbricated and spinous types. Cortex consists of stretched out beam shaped cells, buried with pigment granules for hair to cede with color and is the main body of the hair shaft. It may also contain pigment granula, ovoid bodies and cortical fusi (Wright, 2008). Furthermore, medulla can be categorized into continuous, fragmental, absent and interrupted types. If medulla
The barber had the power to kill who was perhaps his greatest enemy, but he chose not to which was the right decision because he was a barber and not a murder. Though he was a revolutionary, his primary job was to shave people and so he chose right in doing so. As he even said “You are an executioner; I am only a barber. Each one to his job. That’s
Hair weaving dates back as far as Ancient Egypt and throughout history. Egyptians adored a good hair weave. It was considered a form of self-expression and common practice for them to trim their hair and create dazzling wig out of it. The men on occasion wore more dashing styles of wigs than the women. Women more so used weaving methods because of their diminishing hair. This practice is still used today for men and women who suffer from different types of hair loss.
Each sex is treated differently for a naturally occurring body process. As discussed, body hair is viewed as masculine, leading to the assumption that women should be hairless and men should wear their body hair with pride. It is clear that society uses hair to label individuals as either male or female (Toerien and Wilkinson, 2003). In addition, male hair is associated with strength and power (Toerien and Wilkinson, 2003). So how come when women display body hair they are shamed, but men are encouraged to grow it? Hope (1982) elaborates that the term, “feminine, when applied to lack of body hair, implies a child-like status, as opposed to the adult status afforded men” (as cited in Toerien and Wilkinson, 2003). That being said, body hair is another way in which society ranks men as the superior gender by making women conform to the hairless normative. A study conducted by Tiggemann and Hodgson (2008), asked women why they practice hair removal. After completing a questionnaire with different statements to evaluate different factors such as normativity, sexual attractiveness, femininity and self-enhancement, they found significant support in all four types of factors for hair removal of the underarm, leg and pubic area. Additionally, they can found that one item pertaining to males preferring a hairless body, was the only one linked to two factors: normativity and sexual attractiveness. It is evident with their findings that women tend to follow the socially constructed normative for many reason, including to please men. The idea is that women have to change their bodies not only to be accepted by society, but they also do so to be accepted by men. Nonetheless, the must make is seem natural and effortless to uphold the beauty allure. In recent years, depletion of male body hair has become popular. In a study performed by Boroughs, et al. (2005), they found that men removed
was as though everyone was enjoying each other and not fixating on my underarms. Physically, I felt fine. Emotionally, I felt inadequate. I knew that I needed to shave. Scientifically, I cannot offer any explanation as to why I felt this way. In her article Making Up Is Hard to Do, Sheila Jeffreys contends that there is little research on the reasons why women engage in other forms of “grooming”. My guess would be that it provides a sense of beauty. Women that allow facial hair or underarm hair to grow in today’s standards may not be looked upon as being beautiful. However, in the earlier years the old-time Pueblo world former professor Leslie Marmo Silko points out the old-time people thought it was crazy to attach such importance to a person’s
chair looking into the mirror we see the barber hacking away the strands with scissors and we
This hair removal technique most likely originated in the Middle East and is still popular there today. It uses thread to pull out individual hairs from the follicles. You can think of it as a more fine-tuned version of waxing, and its benefits include the following:
I felt the waxy goo before I saw it. Squinting, for a better look, I carefully separated the hair that grew from his temples, ordinarily bristling white, but now suspiciously black and tarry. Interrupting my cutting, I ventured, "Doug, what's all over your hair?" As I awaited his reply, I contemplated my long professional relationship with the man seated before me. I cut hair and work with hairpieces for a living. I design, install, and maintain them for fees far below those of large companies whose lavish infomercials are viewable following David Letterman's show. Doug was not typical of my clients. He favored a vanity I could not understand and fed it as cheaply as possible. His obsessive search for his lost youth was equaled only by the stinginess of his wallet. I had taken care of his hair needs for ten years since he was in his early forties, and not once had he tipped me or acknowledged his age. My patience with him ran thin, but I was about to experience something that would help my own dilemma of age and vanity regarding my life and my profession.