Hairdressing Equipment
While
the word 'hairdressing' may seem like a specific term, yet
it encompasses all beauty related services. Thus, it goes
beyond all the hair and
cosmetics related services of styling, cutting and
the rest like perming and straightening. So, what are the
other services provided by a hairdressing or beauty salon?
Well, here is a general list of the services provided by the
salons and parlors commonly:
- Hair
cutting
- Perming
- Straightening and hair highlights
- Blow
drying
- Waxing
- Threading
- Manicure
- Pedicure
- Massages
- Hair
Wash
- Spa
Treatments
- Bleaching
-
Facial cleansers
- Clean-ups
These
are amongst the basic services that are provided. And for
each of the services there are specific hairdressing tools
that are essential for those running a salon or parlor.
In
order to carry out these services there are varied hairdressing
equipment that is required. However, here is a list of the
basic hairdressing equipment:
- Hairdressing
scissors: every hairdresser prefers to maintain their own
personal kit of hair-cutting and hair-trimming scissors,
also which most consider their lucky scissors.
- Water
spray: This is to wet the client's hair when styling or
cutting
- Hair
spray, mousse, styling gels,
bridal makeup kits etc.
- Shampoo
and conditioner
- Blow
dryers
- Hair
irons: This is used to straighten the hair
- Curlers:
These are of different types, depending on the type of curls
a client desires
- Hair
steamer: This is used to give a steam after a head massage
or then also to provide heat to the head while perming and
hair coloring
- Threads:
This is for threading
- Plucker/Tweezer:
To pull out in-growth
- Wax
heaters
- Facial
steam machine
- Mixing
bowls
- Nail
cutters
- Feet
scrubbers
- Hand
brushes
- Cuticle
cutters
- Buffers
for the nails
- Massage
machine
- Plastic
or glass jars
- Hair
dressing chairs
- Small
and medium handheld mirrors
- Hair
crimping machines
- Hair
combs and brushes
- Hair
color applying brushes
- Large
wall to wall mirrors
- Hair
washing sink with handheld shower
- Geyser
for warm water to wash the hair
- Sterilizing
box for the steel equipment
- Plastic
or rubber gloves
-
Cosmetic products
The
aforementioned inventory of equipment is amongst the essentials
required by hairdressing salons, in general. However, according
to requirements one may need to make additional purchases
to keep up with the times.