Dominican ladies, come in here! Hair terms in spanish!

sharifeh

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Ok. I can speak spanish very well but I hardly speak to the hairdressers because I don't many hair terms. Like I know to relax is lisar. I know the hooded dryer is secador. I don't know how to say blow dry, I know in french, it's "brushing."

But I don't know how to say hair roots, I know how to say ethnic roots, "raices" but I know that's not how you say hair roots right, :giggle:
Like, how do you say, blow out my roots or "my relaxer was under processed."

:look: I feel kind of silly not knowing these things.

Hispanic/dominican ladies? help?

Also what does pelo moño mean? :look:

If you have any useful hair terms for the salon, put it in here. :grin:
 
pelo mono? are you sure?
pelo mojo means wet hair.

arreglar el pelo- (cut and style my hair)
encrespado - frizzy hair
echar pelo- grow hair
maquina de cortar el cabello- hair clippers
color de pelo- hair color
gomina- hair gel
alisador del pelo- hair straightener
estilista- hair stylist
cabello cortado a capas- layered hair


thats all i can think of right now
 
thanks panama princess

ya pelo moño w/ the tilde maybe it's a dominicanism but I've heard it more than once; and not in a nice context
 
My ex is Cuban and I just asked hi
it means monkey hair and it's very derogatory


Nooo...:nono: Mono (moonoo) is a monkey. El pelo moño (monyo)can be a big ponytail or a big bun or just big hair in general. Usuallly when we (I'm Domonican) say someone has a moño it's big hair or moñito.. a big beehive, or big tall hair or some kind of big hairpeace on your head. But when you say "el pelo moño" it's the "big head of hair or bun".
 
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