A comb with a tapering tail or handle used in styling to lift, divide, or curl the hair.
Example sentencesExamples
- Use a tail comb to tuck ends of hair around rollers, lift and section hair for rollers and clean loose hair from brushes.
- The tail of a tail comb is then woven through the section and lifted, thereby separating tufts of hair from the section.
- Using a rat tail comb gently create a series of hair loops that are pulled loose from the Twist.
- It is anticipated that a set of three or four such clip-on combs having different tooth spacings may be purchased by a hairdresser and these clipped on to a conventional tail comb as required.
- We never use mane and tail combs because they break the hair.