hairdresser
n.a person whose job is to cut, wash, and style people's hair. You usually visit them at a shop called a salon.
n.a professional whose occupation involves cutting, colouring, and styling hair to improve or maintain a client's appearance.
“I need to book an appointment with my hairdresser for a trim.”
“After years of working for a large salon, she decided to open her own business as a mobile hairdresser.”
“A skilled hairdresser must possess both the technical proficiency to execute complex cuts and the interpersonal skills to interpret a client's often vague aesthetic desires.”
Commonly used to refer to both the individual professional and, metonymically, the salon itself ('at the hairdresser').
In modern English, 'hairdresser' is written as a single compound word without a space.
From hair + dress + -er.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.