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Through ethnographic interviews, this thesis explores the contemporary Taiwan hairdressing industry and the professional development of hairdressing practitioners, showing how hairdressing practitioners encounter with technical development, workplace competition, physical and mental labor, emotional services, and social labels in their lives. This study explores the interpersonal relationship and emotional management of hairdressing practitioners, trying to reverse the social stereotype of hairdressing practitioners. The purpose of this study is to describe and reshape the profession and value of hairdressing practitioners, thereby presenting the social significances of the profession.
This research on the one hand, draws on life stories of five hairdressers, narrated their professional development experience, and presents that the hairdressers have been trained in hairdressing techniques, through self-learning and facing emotion management has finally become a successful hairdresser. On the other hand, it discusses how the hairdressing salon as a social space was operated and shaping the spiritual rest for modern people, supplementing the function of the traditional hairdressing salon. As a result, contemporary hairdressers serve as an alternative social role along with their profession: a listener of political and business people, a witness of social wealth, and a supporter of female spiritual and emotional healing.
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