Beauty & Grooming

1. ང་ལ་སྐྲ་བཅད་དགོས།

   Nga-la tra-che go

   I'd like a haircut.

   Usage

   Basic phrase used at a barber or hair salon

   Grammar Note

   "go" expresses need or desire — "I need/want"

2. ཙམ་ཙམ་བཅད་དང་། མང་དུ་མ་བཅད།

   Tsam-tsam che-tang, mang-du ma-che

   Just a trim, please — don't cut too much.

   Usage

   Specify how much hair to cut

   Grammar Note

   "ma-" is a negative prefix; "ma-che" means "don't cut"

3. ང་ལ་སྐྲ་[ཁ་དོག]དུ་བཅུག་དགོས།

   Nga-la tra [color]-du chug-go

   I'd like to dye my hair [color].

   Usage

   Request hair dyeing with a specific color

   Grammar Note

   "chug-go" expresses desire to have something done

4. སྐྲ་གཟུགས་དེབ་ལྟ་ཐུབ་བམ།

   Tra-zug deb-ta-thub-bam?

   Can I look at a hairstyle book?

   Usage

   Request to see a hairstyle catalog or book

   Grammar Note

   "ta-thub-bam" asks politely if one can look at something

5. སྐྲ་བཀྲུ་ཞིང་ལག་གི་རླུང་འབུད་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་དམ།

   Tra-tru zhing lag-gi lung-bü-thub-kyi-red-dam?

   Can I get a shampoo and blow-dry?

   Usage

   Request a shampoo and blow-dry service

   Grammar Note

   "zhing" is a conjunction meaning "while also"

6. སེན་མོའི་རི་མོ་ཡོད་དམ།

   Sen-mo ri-mo yod-dam?

   Do you offer nail art?

   Usage

   Check if nail art services are available

   Grammar Note

   "ri-mo" means "drawing/pattern" and is used for nail art

7. ཇེལ་སེན་མོ་དགོས།

   Jel-sen-mo go

   I'd like gel nails.

   Usage

   Request gel nail service

   Grammar Note

   "go" is a verb expressing need or desire

8. འདི་ལ་རིན་ག་ཙམ་རེད།

   Di-la rin ga-tsam red?

   How much will this cost?

   Usage

   Ask about the price of a beauty service

   Grammar Note

   "ga-tsam red" is the standard question for asking the price

9. ཆུ་ཚོད་ག་ཙམ་དགོས།

   Chu-tsod ga-tsam go?

   How long will it take?

   Usage

   Ask how long the treatment will take

   Grammar Note

   "chu-tsod ga-tsam go" asks about the required time

10. ང་ལ་གདོང་པ་བཅོས་སྒྲིག་དགོས།

    Nga-la dong-pa cho-drig go

    I'd like a facial / skin treatment.

    Usage

    Request a facial or skin care treatment

    Grammar Note

    "cho-drig" is a compound meaning "to repair and arrange"

11. ང་གི་སྐྲ་གཡར་གཡར་རེད། / སྙིང་པ་རེད།

    Nga-gi tra yar-yar red / nying-pa red

    My hair is curly / fine.

    Usage

    Describe your hair type to the stylist

    Grammar Note

    "red" is a declarative copula meaning "is/are"

12. སྐྲ་དྲང་པོ་བཟོ་རོགས། / སྐྲ་རིལ་རིལ་བཟོ་རོགས།

    Tra drang-po so-rog / tra ril-ril so-rog

    Please straighten my hair / Please perm my hair.

    Usage

    Request straightening or perming treatment

    Grammar Note

    "rog" is a polite imperative particle requesting assistance

13. འབྲས་བུ་ལ་ཤིན་ཏུ་དགའ་བོ་ཡོད། བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ།

    Dre-bu-la shin-tu ga-wo yod. Ka-drin-che.

    I'm very happy with the result — thank you.

    Usage

    Express satisfaction and gratitude after the treatment

    Grammar Note

    "shin-tu" is an adverb meaning "very / extremely"

14. སྨིན་མ་གཟབ་གནང་ཐུབ་ཀྱི་རེད་དམ།

    Min-ma dzab-nang-thub-kyi-red-dam?

    Can you shape / thread my eyebrows?

    Usage

    Request eyebrow shaping or threading

    Grammar Note

    "dzab-nang" is a polite request to do something carefully

15. ཐོན་རྫས་ཅི་གནང་བ་རེད།

    Thön-dzé chi-nang-ba-red?

    What products do you use?

    Usage

    Ask about products used, for allergy or product interest reasons

    Grammar Note

    "nang-ba-red" is the honorific present/habitual form

16. སྔར་ཁ་གཏན་དགོས་སམ།

    Ngar-kha ten-go-sam?

    Do I need to make an appointment?

    Usage

    Check if an advance appointment is required

    Grammar Note

    "go-sam" asks "is it necessary?"

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