{"id":306,"date":"2016-02-19T10:45:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T10:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boldbarber.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2017-08-08T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T10:37:01","slug":"what-is-barber-and-barber-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldbarber.com\/what-is-barber-and-barber-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Barber and Barber shop?"},"content":{"rendered":"
It seems that barbers and hairdressers are considered to be one and the same, but actually these are two similar, but diverse professions with different responsibilities and history. A barber is a person<\/strong> whose occupation is cutting, dressing, grooming, styling and shaving men’s and boy’s hair. A hairdresser is a person<\/strong> whose occupation is hair cutting or styling in order to maintain or change client’s image. This purpose is achieved by using combination of hair cutting, hair coloring and hair texturing techniques.<\/p>\n The word \u201cbarber\u201d<\/strong> comes from the Latin word \u201cbarba\u201d<\/strong> which means \u201cbeard\u201d<\/strong>. Historically barbers were known as barber surgeons as well, because they performed surgery and dentistry<\/strong>. Because of development of safety razors and decrement of popularity of beards, most of barbers in English-speaking cultures started to specialize in cutting men’s scalp hair, not facial hair.<\/p>\n A workplace<\/strong> of barbers is called \u201cbarber shop\u201d<\/strong> or \u201cbarber’s\u201d<\/strong>. Barber shops are also places for public disclosure and social interaction, as well as places for shaping of male identity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Despite the fact that historically all hairdressers were called barbers, nowadays the word\u00a0\u201cbarber\u201d is used both as professional title of hairdressers and as reference to hairdressers who specialize in men’s hair<\/strong>. In the 20th century, cosmetology seceded from barbering, therefore, today hairdresser can be licensed as either cosmetologist or barber. Difference of this terminology depends on regulations in given location, for example, in Australia the official title\u00a0of barber is \u201chairdresser\u201d, but \u201cbarber\u201d refers only to men’s hairdressers. Also places are called differently, for example, barber shop, hairdressing salon or hair salon.<\/p>\n The barber’s trade has long history \u2013 some kind of razors have been found among artifacts of the Bronze Age in Egypt<\/strong>, where barbers were highly respected persons. The first examples of barbers are priests and medicine men<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In some ancient tribes barbers were considered to be as one of the most important members of tribe<\/strong>, because they believed that certain evil spirits can enter person’s body through the hair, so the hair cutting was one of ways to get them out. Considering this fact, barbers were performing religious ceremonies<\/strong> such as marriages and baptisms as well.<\/p>\n