How To Get A Haircut In English - Conversation!
- Posted on 11 January, 2018
- Hair Knowledge
- By Anonymous
Do you know how to get a haircut in English?
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Take a look at this woman: she wants to get a haircut okay, so she needs to go to a hair salon to get her hair cut. This place is called a hair salon. Now, if it's just for men men only, then it's called a barbershop. Okay, a barbershop: now men can go to a barbershop, but they can also go to a hair salon. Okay, so men can go to a hair salon and a barbershop, but women can only go to a hair salon. Okay, it might be a little bit weird if a woman went into a barber shop, they would say hmm what are you doing here? Okay, so remember that, okay, so let's say this guy goes into a hair salon or a barber shop to get a haircut okay. So someone is going to say: hi are you here for a haircut and this guy says hi yeah, I am okay. Do you have a reservation? No, I don't. Okay, a reservation means he called before and booked a time for the haircut okay. So he doesn't have a reservation, so she says: okay, no problem it'll be about a 5-minute, wait, okay, sure have a seat and we'll call you when we're ready Thanks. Okay, so you sit down and you might pick up a magazine or a newspaper or something and read that for five minutes. Then after five minutes she's going to come back and say mark and then you can stand up and you can follow her okay, she's going to say how are you doing today? I'M doing great thanks yourself, I'm doing good thanks! It'S pretty busy today, then she's going to say, have a seat and you're gon na say thanks. So what would you like to have done today? Okay, what would you like to have done today? That means what do you want? What do you want me to do with your hair? Okay, so every time you go to a hair salon or a barber shop, they're always going to ask you. What would you like to have done today? Okay have done or they might ask. What are you looking for today? What are you looking for today either going to ask you something similar to these questions? Okay, so you could say I just like a trim. Please I'd means I would. I would just like a trim. Please a trim is just a little bit. Okay, maybe that much, maybe you go into the barber shop every month for a trim like me, I go about once a month for a trim. Okay, then she's going to say sure about half an inch about half an inch okay, then you can say actually, if you could take off closer to an inch that would be great okay. So she asked about half an inch and you're saying know a little bit more, maybe closer to an inch about an inch okay, she's going to say sure. Okay, now take off means to cut off you're, going to hear this phrasal verb. Very often when you go for a haircut okay, she's going to ask you: how much would you like taken off the sides or how much would you like taken off the top or the back? Okay, there's different parts of our hair? Okay, we have the sides. We have the top. We have the back and around ears around the ears and bangs a bangs, our hair, that come down like this, so to cut the bangs, you cut them like that: okay, men and women can both have bangs okay. Now this person, who cuts your hair, is called a hairdresser or a hairstylist, or a bar okay, now they're going to use different kinds of tools when they cut your hair they're going to use scissors a comb and they might use a razor, they might use a Razor for here or here just to make the edges sharp okay. Now these things are called Clippers, Clippers or a hair trimmer, or if it's for a beard, then it's called a beard trimmer. Okay, now this thing is called a curling iron. It'S for making hair curly. Okay, this thing is called a flat iron, it's for making hair flat. So if you want straight hair, then you need a flat iron. If you want curly hair, then you need a curling iron. This here is called hair spray. You spray it into your hair and this is called hair gel you take it into your hands, rub it around and then mash it into your hair. Okay. Now there are so many different kinds of hair products out there. So very often we just use the word product to mean anything. Okay, so the hairdresser might ask you: what kind of product do you use? What kind of product do you use, and you can say I use hair spray or I use hair gel okay. Now this thing is called a blow dryer for a hair, dryer. Okay, now the hairdresser might ask you: how short, would you like the sides? How short would you like the sides or how short, would you like the top okay, then you could answer? Could you use number two on the sides? Okay, so, for example, when I go get my hair cut, I say: could you use number one on the sides? Okay, this is called a hair, trimmer or clippers, and Clippers have different settings right. Setting one two: three, it gets longer longer longer. One is short, then, two, three four five: okay, so they might ask you what setting do you want me to use on the sides? Okay, then, you could say I'd like number two on the sides. Okay or you could say it like this I'd like half an inch taken off the sides, you want half an inch taken off the side. So half an inch is about one point: two seven centimeters and one inch is about 2.54 centimeters. Now this is called a taper or a fade. Okay, look it's really short here and then it gets longer and longer and longer. Okay, so you could say I'd like it tapered on the sides and back please, okay, so that means you want the barber or the hairdresser to taper the sides and the back. That means to do it like this. Okay, so the hairdresser might ask you what would you like to have done today? Okay, and then you can answer, I like a cut or I'd like a trim. I'D like my hair colored, I like a cut and wash okay, so there's different options that you have to get a haircut. Okay, a cut means a haircut. A trim just means a little bit. Okay, colored means dyed to have your hair dyed, a different color, a cut and wash means a haircut and a wash okay. Now, before you go to a hair salon, you might book an appointment okay. So this is how you book an appointment. You call the hair salon and you say hi I'd like to book an appointment, okay and they're going to say sure. When would you like to come in okay, then you're going to say: do you have any openings on Tuesday openings means free time? Okay, free periods of time those periods are called slots. Okay, so maybe like 3 o'clock to 3:30, that's a half hour slot 3:30 to 4:00 4:30 to 5:00. Okay, those are time slots. So do you have any openings on Tuesday and she's going to say? Yes, we have a 3:30 and a 4:30 slot available and you can say: okay, I might be able to do 3:30. Do you take walk-ins? Do you take walk-ins? Okay, walk-ins are when you don't book an appointment. You just walk in and say hi I'd like to have a haircut okay. Now, if you booked an appointment, then that's different. Okay, so there's two options: walk in or by appointment. Some hair salons only do by appointment. So you can't just walk in you have to book an appointment, but other hair salons allow for walk-ins, okay, most hair salons, that I've been to allow for walk-ins. But sometimes I booked an appointment so you're going to ask: do you take walk-ins and then she's going to say? Yes, we do, then you can say: okay I'll just come in whenever I'm free, then okay I'll just come in whenever I'm free. That way, you don't have to book an appointment and then cancel or that way, you're not late for an appointment. Okay, sometimes it's better just to walk in and wait for a few minutes. Okay, so she's going to say sounds good and you can say thanks for your help, bye, okay! So now you know everything you need to get a haircut in English, but I want to know: have you seen my hairstyles video? Yet in that lesson I teach you all about different kinds of hairstyles okay. So if you haven't seen that video yet watch it I'll put the link somewhere right up here. Okay, let's do some homework. What do you tell your hairdresser? What do you tell your hairdresser in English? Okay, I want you to tell me down there in the comments and I'll see you over in the next episode of Mad English TV. Take care
Comments
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Afghanistan cricket board_T20 World Cup: thanks man. it was the first time i have watched your video and actually it would help me so when i go to barbershop tomorrow i will remember all the sentences and phrasal verbs you have teached me thank you again
Ridwan Farah: Thank you very much You're so helpful And your explanation is so good. Thanks a lot.
Júlio César Lima de Sousa: "Hi! I'd just like a trim, please. Could you use a number 2 on the sides?" Very useful, Mark. Thanks a lot.
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Xavier Santiago Andrés: I normally go for a simple haircut, longer on the top than on the sides and the back. I normally ask to use scissors on the top and clippers (a number 3 setting) on the back and sides. Sometimes I ask to get the top styled with some gel.
Katy Naber: I’m a hairstylist. I started a job in US. Thanks so much. Actually today I had a training class. I was in trouble because I don’t have hair salon vocabulary☹️. Good bless you.
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Ily 1998: Thanks for this video! It may be very useful! Are these phrases used is UK too? Or in America only?
kalai: Great stuff! I usually cut my hair by myself using scissors and just Keep them short. But I would like to straighten my hair by using flat iron teacher. Thank you so much! teacher . I miss my teacher. I think you're busy writing your idiom book. Okay I'm being patient until you show up. I hope tomorrow you might come. take care! !
asad khan: you solved my biggest problem bcoz i always used to get confused while talking to my hair stylist that what kind of vocab i should use. but now i am pretty confident and know what to to tell him. thanks
Dan Dan: I'll be having a trouble if I go in Canada and ask someone to do my haircut. haha. This is a great help.
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Marcella: Hey! I was just looking for a lesson like that. Thank you very much! Btw, I love your videos! Only, I disagree that women can't go to a barber shop. I think they can go to both just as men can do. What about women who like male hair styles, short hair, side-cuts, and stuff alike? Hahaha! Anyway, I was just trying to show that there are exceptions to the rule. Well, I've never been to a barber shop, though. I'd rather go to a beauty salon where most women go. But my boyfriend does. Besides, I have a few friends who work at a barber shop, so I kind of have an idea what it looks like on the inside. These days, barber shops are not too different from beauty salons. You can find as good as anything in both places. There's even manicure and pedicure service getting done at barber shops. No wonder, this is not a place exclusively for men nowadays. But, yeah, when you think of a barber shop, you automatically imagine a place crowded with men. It's hard to spot women in these places, but this is actually changing.
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Vahid Hoseini: Hi, I am Iranian, and I want to work as a hairdresser in an English-speaking country next time, this video was great, thank you very much
Hicazkar74: At first I want to say I love so much your lessons and I enjoy watching your videos. When I am going to my barber. I would say "I'd like tapered sides and trim top."
Ismayil Haciyev: I am going to the same hairdresser, so he knows how to cut ;) But when I am going to a new barbershop, I often say to leave very little.
Luís Henrique Maia: When I go to the barber shop, I tell the hairdresser to use a setting number 4 or 5 to cut off the top of my hair and a number 1.5 to take off the sides.
Мобила Мобила: Thanks for the lesson. I've gone to the hair salon every time. I ask to cut a trim asides, back, top etc. I eagerly will wait the next lessons ☺.
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Mohammed almusawi: Thanks your lessons very helpful
Sukanya Jandapang: Hi, I'm a hairdresser I am from Thailand this is a video help me a lot. Thank you.
Trung Trinh Huu: Very useful (y)
Abdelilah Jamali: Hi! I usually tell my hairdresser that I'd like a trim with scissors on the top, on the sides and on the back. Thank you.
Блокчейн Биткойн: great lesson!!!!
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beauty shimul: Very good. Thanks a lot
Maryam Monshizadeh: I tell her/his thank you so much (LOL) Thank you , you are a perfect teacher
Deepak Kumar: i always said to my hair dresser use trimmer .. Bcoz i love small hair cuting..
Hypebeast phone cases sales: I’d like a cut and wash , and pls just taper the sides and the back and trim the top a little bit ( correct me if I’m wrong thanks very much teacher !)
Francisco Ruiz: Very helpful. Thanks
Amine games: Hey please could u tell me how do we call the person who accepts the lost cheerfuly or in other words his unability to win (opposite of sore loser) ??
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Sunny Chan: Thanks for your help!
灯盏: I very like the lesson because it has teached me how to ask a barber to take off my hair so i never became ugly after having a cut. lol
Argus Simmon: Hi Mark, I often go to hair salon once time on 6months to cut my hair,dying and wash ect...maybe sometime i want to make a bang ,i 'd cut off by myself.could you tell me how to talk about when i take off my hair by myself,please.thank you so much.
Nam Ha Quoc: Thank you so much!
yong luo: thank you teacher !
Ganesh Rao Mahendran: Actually I'm thinking to ask you to do this subject... Thank you...
Haichao Li: "Hello, I would like it tapered on the sides and back please. My hair is oily. What product would you recommend?" Thanks vey much. very useful!
She Tiong: I haven't go to the hair salon here yet, because I just do by myself to hair cut or hair trim to my hair. As I've know that it's a bit quite expensive when we go to salon. lol But if I will go to the hair salon I will tell to the hairdresser that "I would like to have a hair treatment and hair trim".
Hairstyles Channel: Thanks for sharing, ❤❤❤
Rajat Dewangan: I'd like to have the fade haircut. 'Cause it's my favorite. Could you use number 1 on the sides?
Nesma: I usually trim my hair and my bangs at home but I go to hair salon for hair colouring and highlighting, hair treatments or to blow dry my hair.
Ann Nur: Hello Mark! Is goo has the same meaning as gel?
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Натали Дайнеко: Thanks, dear teacher
Marat L: I show them my current profile picture and say, "Think you could trim it so it looks like this?" Works like a charm!
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Merlin Sunny: I will tell my hairdresser to cut my hair to the latest fashion trend and to make me look out of the box.
Kamlesh Saini: I go to the same barber shop for the same haircut every month. So, I don't have to tell them how style I want to. But if my son goes with me for a haircut. He asks the barber how style he wants to. Children are into a bizzare fashion these days.
fabsir2007: This is what I say: Can I book an appointment for a haircut? Do you have any openings Saturday morning? I'd like number 4 on the top and number 2 on the side and on the back.
Ngoc Hanh: I’d like to have a new hair style for this year -short a little bit and curly .
Francisco Barrios: I can use flat iron for making curly hair style too
Yaya Yaya: great lesson
Zulema Hdz: I’m still learning English But this video help me to communicate with customers Thank you.
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PM Channel: I would like to use no.2 taken off taper on side.
Vorontsov Konstantin: Hello I would like to have a cut and wash. Could you please use trimmer setting 2 on the sides and back the bang should lie on the right side and please just make it lighter.
Carlos Eduardo: Hi Mark! My wife cut my hair. I did buy a hair trimmer because i cut my hair with a number 1 in the whole head, I like my hair very short. Have a good one!!!
Nguyen The Hoang: Hello Mark, I liked your hairstyle, how often do you go to the hair salon?
Ota Burian: Its usefull! When I was first time in hairsallon i wanted to cut just about 2cm off but that guy didnt understand me so he left just 2cm on my head :D now its not going to happend again :D
Jaden K: "Iron" in the UK pronounced "airn" . But you told is " airen" . Am not able to found the right phonetical letter on my type key ,
just use an " r " instead of it. Is that pronounce difference really? Or i understood incorrectly?
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Ahmed Hijazi: Thanks
subhashbajwa: Sir extremely helpful video...I'll use this tips ......tepper....trim half an inch..
azar reastegar: You are a grenar teacher And Doing good job
hrand mahmoudi: Thanks
al waga: Thank you for this video and you are goo teacher for baraber shops
Phuoc Pham: I would like my hair colored on next Tuesday. Do you have any openings available?
Janardhan K: What is the cost to have the hair cut. We call it hair stylist in India too
Hello Comrade: I'm gonna get a hair cut three hours later.
علاء اسعد alaa asaad: it was great thanks