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Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists
Provide beauty services, such as cutting, coloring, and styling hair, and massaging and treating scalp. May shampoo hair, apply makeup, dress wigs, remove hair, and provide nail and skincare services.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Keep work stations clean and sanitize tools, such as scissors and combs.Mostly human for now
- 02Schedule client appointments.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Bleach, dye, or tint hair, using applicator or brush.Mostly human for now
- 04Cut, trim and shape hair or hairpieces, based on customers' instructions, hair type, and facial features, using clippers, scissors, trimmers and razors.Mostly human for now
- 05Shampoo, rinse, condition, and dry hair and scalp or hairpieces with water, liquid soap, or other solutions.Mostly human for now
- 06Update and maintain customer information records, such as beauty services provided.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Analyze patrons' hair and other physical features to determine and recommend beauty treatment or suggest hair styles.Mostly human for now
- 08Massage and treat scalp for hygienic and remedial purposes, using hands, fingers, or vibrating equipment.Mostly human for now
- 09Apply water or setting, straightening or waving solutions to hair, and use curlers, rollers, hot combs and curling irons to press and curl hair.Mostly human for now
- 10Shave, trim, and shape beards and moustaches.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss3%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
8%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 17% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 61% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Keep work stations clean and sanitize tools, such as scissors and combs.
- Bleach, dye, or tint hair, using applicator or brush.
- Cut, trim and shape hair or hairpieces, based on customers' instructions, hair type, and facial features, using clippers, scissors, trimmers and razors.