Beauty & Grooming

1. མགོ་སྐྲ་བཅད་ན་འདོད་ཡི།

   Go-tra ce na do-yi

   I'd like a haircut

   Usage

   Basic phrase for requesting a haircut at a salon or barbershop

   Grammar Note

   "Do-yi" expresses desire "I want/would like to"

2. ཧ་ལས་བཅད་ཙམ་གནང་། ཧེ་མ་ཤར་མ་བཅད།

   Ha-le ce tsam nang; he-ma shar ma-ce

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

   Usage

   Used when requesting just a small trim, not too much cut off

   Grammar Note

   "Ma-ce" is a negative imperative "don't cut"

3. མགོ་སྐྲ་[ཁ་དོག]་གིས་གཞི་བཟུང་ན་འདོད་ཡི།

   Go-tra [kha-dog] gi zhi-zung na do-yi

   I'd like to dye my hair [color]

   Usage

   Used to request hair dyeing in a specific color

   Grammar Note

   "Gi" is an instrumental particle "with/using"

4. མགོ་སྐྲའི་ལྟ་སྟངས་ཤོག་ལེབ་ལྟ་ཆོག་གམ།

   Go-tra-i ta-tang shog-lep ta chog-gam

   Can I look at a hairstyle book?

   Usage

   Used to request a hairstyle catalog or lookbook

   Grammar Note

   "Ta chog-gam" is a permission question "may I look/see?"

5. མགོ་འཁྲུ་ཞིང་ཆར་གཟུགས་བཟུང་གནང་ཞུ།

   Go-khru zhing char-zug zung nang-zhu

   I'd like a shampoo and blow-dry

   Usage

   Used to request a shampoo and blow-dry at a salon

   Grammar Note

   "Zhing" is a simultaneous connective "while/and"

6. སེན་མོ་ལུ་རི་མོ་འབྲི་ནི་ཡོད་ག།

   Sen-mo lu ri-mo dri-ni yoe ga

   Do you offer nail art?

   Usage

   Used to ask if nail art services are available

   Grammar Note

   "Yoe ga" is a question confirming whether something is available. "Drawing a picture on the nails" expresses nail art

7. ཇེལ་སེན་མོ་ཞུ་ན་འདོད་ཡི།

   Jel sen-mo zhu na do-yi

   I'd like gel nails / acrylic nails

   Usage

   Used to request gel or acrylic nail services

   Grammar Note

   The loanword "gel" is phonetically transcribed in Dzongkha

8. དུས་ཡུན་ག་དེམ་ཅིག་འགོར་འོང་།

   Due-yun ga-dem-chig gor-ong?

   How long will it take?

   Usage

   Used to ask how long a beauty treatment will take

   Grammar Note

   "Gor" means to take time, and "ong" marks futurity or expectation.

9. གདོང་གི་པགས་ཀོ་ལ་སྨན་གཞི་བཟུང་ན་འདོད་ཡི།

   Dong gi pa-ko la men zhi-zung na do-yi

   I'd like a facial / skin treatment

   Usage

   Used to book a facial or skin care treatment

   Grammar Note

   "Gi" is the genitive particle. "Dong gi pa-ko" means "skin of the face" (skin is "pa-ko"; "sha" means flesh)

10. ང་གི་མགོ་སྐྲ་འཁྱིལ་ཤོར། གཞུང་ཤར། མི་ཆེ་བ་ཨིན།

    Nga gi go-tra khyil-shor / zhung-shar / mi-che-ba yin

    My hair is curly / straight / fine / thick

    Usage

    Used to describe your hair type to a stylist

    Grammar Note

    "Yin" is a declarative copula "is/am" expressing objective information

11. མགོ་སྐྲ་གཞུང་ཤར་བཟོ་ཞིང་ཡང་ན་གཟེར་གྱི་གཟུགས་བཟུང་ཆོག་གམ།

    Go-tra zhung-shar zo zhing yang-na zer-gyi zug zung chog-gam

    Can you straighten / perm my hair?

    Usage

    Used to request a hair straightening or perming treatment

    Grammar Note

    "Zhing yang-na" offers two alternatives "either...or"

12. འབྲས་བུ་ལ་ཧ་ཅང་དགའ་ཡི། བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ།

    Dre-bu la ha-cang ga yi; ka-drin-che

    I'm very happy with the result — thank you

    Usage

    Used to express satisfaction with a beauty treatment result

    Grammar Note

    "Ha-cang" is an intensifying adverb "very/extremely"

13. སྨིན་མ་ཟུར་བཅད་གཞི་བཟུང་གནང་ཆོག་གམ།

    Min-ma zur-ce zhi-zung nang chog-gam

    Can you shape / thread my eyebrows?

    Usage

    Used to request eyebrow shaping or threading at a salon

    Grammar Note

    "Nang chog-gam" is a polite request "could you please...?"

14. སྔོན་བཀོད་འབད་དགོཔ་ཨིན་ན།

    Ngon-ko be gop in na

    Do I need to make an appointment?

    Usage

    Used to check if a prior appointment is required

    Grammar Note

    "Gop in na" is a necessity question "is it necessary?" (Dzongkha "go" corresponds to Tibetan "gos")

15. མགོ་སྐྲའི་གཞི་ལུ་མར་སྦྱར་གནང་གནང་ཞུ།

    Go-tra-i zhi lu mar-jar nang-nang zhu

    I'd like a scalp massage

    Usage

    Used to request a scalp massage at a salon

    Grammar Note

    "Nang-nang zhu" repeats the honorific imperative for polite emphasis

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