bleach job

English

Alternative forms

  • bleachjob

Etymology

From bleach +‎ job.

Noun

bleach job (plural bleach jobs)

  1. (cosmetics) The act, or the result of bleaching or rebleaching (namely) the hair.
    • 1975, Linda Jacobs, Cher: Simply Cher (Women Behind the Bright Lights), EMC Corporation, page 31:
      The days when she had worried about her nose and her teeth, and pouted because she couldn’t be a blonde, seemed far away and unreal. She had long ago given up her old dream of having a bleach job and plastic surgery and dental work.
    • 2013, Loren Lankford, DIY dye: bright and funky temporary hair coloring you do at home, Ulysses Press, page 78:
      You may just want to go from your natural color to blond, in which case you’ll just want to do a bleach job with the instructions on the next page. If you want to go for some fun colors, you can do the dye after you bleach into an ombre but let your hair rest for a week after you bleach it before you dye it.
    • 2000, Carol Morley, Liz Wilde, Hair: 100 styling secrets, MQ Publications, page 62:
      A proper bleach job is best left to the professionals, but you can lift dull hair between appointments with a post-shampoo herbal rinse.
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