Hair and Appearance vocabulary Cabelo e Aparência
20 Portuguese words on the topic of hair and appearance — with pictures, audio recordings and example sentences. Describing hair — with ter: Ela tem cabelo comprido.
| Picture | English | Portuguese · Português | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
 | hair | o cabelo | Singular or plural: o cabelo / os cabelos; a single hair is um fio de cabelo. |
 | long hair | o cabelo longo | Also very common: cabelo comprido. |
 | short hair | o cabelo curto | Related: curta-metragem, a short film. |
 | straight hair | o cabelo liso | liso means 'smooth' in general, not only of hair. |
 | wavy hair | o cabelo ondulado | 🔗 RootFrom onda (wave) — literally 'wavy'. |
 | curly hair | o cabelo cacheado | From cachos (curls). 🇵🇹 Portugalin Portugal encaracolado. |
 | blond | loiro | Also spelled louro. |
 | dark-haired | moreno | Refers to dark hair or to brown/tanned skin, like Spanish moreno. |
 | brown-haired | castanho | For hair and eyes; in Brazil the generic 'brown' is marrom. |
 | red-haired | ruivo | 🔗 RootFrom Latin rubeus 'red'. |
 | gray-haired | cabelos grisalhos | The adjective is grisalho: um homem grisalho, a grey-haired man. |
 | bald | calvo | In colloquial Brazilian speech careca is more common. |
 | haircut | o corte de cabelo | From cortar (to cut); 'to get a haircut' is cortar o cabelo. |
 | hair salon | a barbearia | From barba (beard) — a men's barbershop; a general salon is salão de beleza. |
 | hairdresser | o cabeleireiro | From cabelo; also the salon itself — ir ao cabeleireiro, go to the hairdresser's. |
 | bangs | a franja | 🔗 RootLiterally 'fringe' — the same word covers fabric fringe. |
 | ponytail | o rabo de cavalo | rabo = tail. 🔗 RootLiterally 'horse's tail'. |
 | braids | as tranças | Singular a trança; the verb is trançar, to braid. |
 | beard | a barba | 🔗 RootTo shave is fazer a barba — literally 'do the beard'. |
 | mustache | o bigode |