1924年，美國英語（Mencken 在俄亥俄州克利夫蘭的電話目錄中找到了它），源自於 beauty，加上後綴，和 technician 的類似。 Beauty salon 來自1912年，是普通術語 beauty shop 的替代品（1898）。Beauty parlor 來自1894年。
The sudden death of a young woman a little over a week ago in a down-town "beauty parlor" has served to direct public attention to those institutions and their methods. In this case, it seems, the operator painted on or injected into the patron's facial blemish a 4-per-cent cocaine solution and then applied an electrode, the sponge of which was saturated with carbolized water. [The Western Druggist, October 1894]
一週多之前，一位年輕女子在市區的“美容院”裏突然去世，這引起了公衆對這些機構及其方法的關注。在這種情況下，似乎操作員在顧客的面部瑕疵上塗抹或注射了4%的可卡因溶液，然後應用了一種海綿浸滿碳化水的電極。【《西方製藥商》1894年10月】
Back in 1917, according to Frances Fisher Dubuc, only two persons in the beauty culture business had paid an income tax; by 1927 there were 18,000 firms and individuals in this field listed as income-tax payers. The "beautician" had arrived. [Frederick Lewis Allen, "Only Yesterday," 1931]
根據 Frances Fisher Dubuc 的說法，在1917年，美容業務只有兩個人繳納了所得稅； 到1927年，已有18,000家公司和個人在此領域上列爲納稅人。美容業已經到來了。【弗雷德裏克·劉易斯·艾倫，《僅僅昨天》，1931年】
