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fazer escova no cabelo

English translation: hair straightening with hair dryer and brush

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Portuguese term or phrase:fazer escova no cabelo
English translation:hair straightening with hair dryer and brush
Entered by: David Warwick

18:55 Aug 23, 2004
Portuguese to English translations [Non-PRO]
Cosmetics, Beauty
Portuguese term or phrase: fazer escova no cabelo
As mulheres geralmente vão ao salão de cabelereiro para fazer escova no cabelo.
Carolina
straighten their hair
Explanation:
"fazer escova" doesn't refer just to drying the hair with a hair dryer: it's when a hair dryer is used to straighten the hair, particularly curly hair.

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Note added at 13 hrs 1 min (2004-08-24 07:56:43 GMT)
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As well as hair dryer it involves a brush, \"escova\", used to pull the hair straight while being dried.
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David Warwick
Local time: 19:01
Grading comment
Thank you.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +5to have a blow dry.
Marion Gorenstein
4 +1straighten their hair
David Warwick


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
to have a blow dry.


Explanation:
as is

Marion Gorenstein
United States
Native speaker of: Portuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  carmentrad
42 mins
agree  Clauwolf: minha poodle também...
1 hr
agree  Cristina Santos
2 hrs
agree  DavidHardy
4 hrs
agree  skport: I like the image of Clauwolf's poodle having a blowdry - and it is indeed true that dogs go to the hairdresser a lot in Brazil!
13 hrs
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
straighten their hair


Explanation:
"fazer escova" doesn't refer just to drying the hair with a hair dryer: it's when a hair dryer is used to straighten the hair, particularly curly hair.

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Note added at 13 hrs 1 min (2004-08-24 07:56:43 GMT)
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As well as hair dryer it involves a brush, \"escova\", used to pull the hair straight while being dried.

David Warwick
Local time: 19:01
Native speaker of: English
Grading comment
Thank you.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Henrique Magalhaes
29 days
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