Where a performance hairdresser can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a performance hairdresser already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Performance hairdressers assist and support artists before, during and after the performance to ensure the hairdressing is in line with the artistic vision of the stage director and the artistic team. They maintain, check and repair wigs and assist with quick changes.
Also known as hair & wig stylist, hair and wig stylist, hair & wig artist, hair and wig artist, hair artist, event hair stylist.
Service and sales workers 26 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: wig and hairpiece maker, 72%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A performance hairdresser needs 13 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- perform quick hair changeovers assisting and caring
- apply hair cutting techniques assisting and caring
- hair services
- maintain wigs handling and moving
- prepare personal work environment management skills
- safeguard artistic quality of performance communication, collaboration and creativity
- understand artistic concepts communication, collaboration and creativity
- translate artistic concepts to technical designs communication, collaboration and creativity
- adapt to artists' creative demands communication, collaboration and creativity
- work with respect for own safety assisting and caring
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a performance hairdresser does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- make-up and hair designer 79% covered · difficulty 22
- make-up artist 69% covered · difficulty 32.3
- wig and hairpiece maker 67% covered · difficulty 34.7
- dresser 62% covered · difficulty 39.7
- mask maker 60% covered · difficulty 41.9
- costume maker 57% covered · difficulty 43.8
- scenic painter 56% covered · difficulty 45.6
- hair stylist 37% covered · difficulty 60
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Performance hairdresser is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a performance hairdresser’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.