A beautician is a person whose job is to make your skin, hair, nails, or makeup look better — the treatments you get in a salon, not surgery. They may clean skin, shape eyebrows, paint nails, or help with makeup for a wedding. Though actually the edges of the job are messy. In British English, beautician is a normal everyday word. In American English, people often split the work: an esthetician (also spelled aesthetician) for skin, a cosmetologist for a wider license, a hairdresser or stylist for hair. Younger city talk in the US may never say beautician at all. In a Taiwan salon the work is often split too: 美容師 for face and skin, 美髮師 for hair — even when both stand in the same shop. The word was coined around the 1920s in Cleveland, Ohio, as a blend of beauty and technician: someone technical about beauty, not merely “good at looking nice.” It is a job title, so it stays fairly plain and professional, not poetic.