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Trim client hair

Physical care and clinical work need trained hands, close observation and a person who is accountable at the bedside or chairside.

Part of Groom or style hair, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 6 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Cut and trim hair according to clients' instructions or current hairstyles, using clippers, combs, hand-held blow driers, and scissors.Stays human Barbers
• Apply lather and shave beards or neck and temple hair contours, using razors.Stays human Barbers
• Shape and trim beards and moustaches, using scissors.Stays human Barbers
• Shave, trim, and shape beards and moustaches.Stays human Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists
• Shape eyebrows and remove facial hair, using depilatory cream, tweezers, electrolysis or wax.Stays human Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Cut, trim and shape hair or hairpieces, based on customers' instructions, hair type, and facial features, using clippers, scissors, trimmers and razors.Stays human Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists