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HAIR THINNING [3 records]

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Record 1 2018-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hair Styling
DEF

A cutting movement used in thinning hair with the hair-cutting scissors by slithering the scissors up and down a strand of hair and at the same time slightly opening and closing the scissor blades to cut one or two hairs at a time, thus producing a tapered effect in the hair strand.

OBS

slithering: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coiffure
CONT

L'effilage par repoussage [...] Lorsque la quantité de cheveux que l'on désire effiler reste en main, repoussons en une fois les autres cheveux vers la racine. Procédons alors à l'effilage aux ciseaux droits [...]

OBS

effilage par repoussage : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 2 2018-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hair Styling
DEF

A procedure to reduce the bulk and density of hair.

OBS

hair thinning : term approved officially by the Lexicon Project Committee(New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coiffure
CONT

L'effilage consiste à couper seulement quelques cheveux dans la longueur d'une mèche, de façon à en diminuer l'épaisseur.

OBS

amincissement des cheveux; effilage : termes uniformisés par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hair Styling
OBS

club cutting : Cutting the hair straight off without thinning, slithering or tapering; a technique used to cut bangs and to cut ends the same length.

OBS

According to the source "An Illustrated Dictionary of Hairdressing & Wigmaking, J. Stevens Cox, 1984, p. 30," the term "blunt cut" is an American term.

OBS

0° [to] 30°.

OBS

blunt cut; club cut: terms officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Coiffure
CONT

Nous donnons les noms de : coupe enveloppante : pour une coupe très peu dégradée où les longueurs du sommet sont très grandes (recouvrement) et enveloppent les cheveux plus courts des guiches et de la nuque.

OBS

0° À 30°.

OBS

coupe enveloppante : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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