hairline
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Even a stray grain or hairline defect means the part has to be scrapped, he added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Don't forget your hairline and any partings to protect your scalp.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
My hair woes started in high school, when I would scrape my curls into a bun and lament how thin my hairline looked.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
You’re more than allowed to believe him abominable, and maybe do some witchcraft so his hairline starts receding at an unprecedented rate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
His eyes grew wide as we all watched her face change to a pale blue mask pulled down from her hairline to her swollen lips.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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He is among a cohort of men who have had enough of hiding under hats and obsessively monitoring hairlines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
As of 2021, there were an estimated 350,000 tattoo artists in the country, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare - most of whom specialised in semi-permanent make-up for lips, eyebrows or hairlines.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
Back of the day, the NBA players used to look like they were 65, had hairlines back here.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022
Yoon's party has not yet decided its position on traditional tattoos but supports legalising so-called cosmetic tattoos, which are semi-permanent and popular in South Korea for enhancing eyebrows, eyelines and hairlines.
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2022
She nearly didn’t marry him because it was said that people with angular hairlines often have very troubled lives.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
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