В салоне мастер включила фен и сказала, что моя чёлка высохнет через минуту.

Because мастер here refers to a female salon worker.

In Russian, мастер is a noun that can refer to a professional of either sex, especially in service contexts like salons. The past-tense verb shows the person’s gender, so:

• мастер включил / сказал = the male stylist turned on / said
• мастер включила / сказала = the female stylist turned on / said

So even though мастер looks grammatically masculine, Russian often uses feminine past-tense agreement when the actual person is a woman.

В салоне means in the salon.

Here, в means in, and салоне is in the prepositional case because it expresses location.

Compare:

• в салоне = in the salon (location)
• в салон = into the salon (motion toward)

So the sentence starts by setting the scene: In the salon...

Yes, in this context it most naturally means a beauty salon / hair salon.

On its own, салон can mean different kinds of salon or showroom depending on context, but because the sentence mentions:

• мастер (a salon professional)
• фен (hair dryer)
• чёлка (bangs/fringe)

the meaning is clearly a hair or beauty salon.

Yes. Фен is the normal Russian word for a hair dryer.

Even though English learners may expect a longer phrase, Russian usually just says фен. In this context, it very naturally means the device used to dry hair.

So:

• включить фен = to turn on the hair dryer

Чёлка means bangs in American English or fringe in British English.

A useful thing to notice: in English, bangs is plural, but in Russian чёлка is singular.

So:

• моя чёлка = my bangs / my fringe

That is why the adjective and verb are singular:

• моя (not мои)
• высохнет (singular verb)

Because моя чёлка is the subject of the clause моя чёлка высохнет.

The subject is in the nominative case, so:

• моя чёлка = my bangs/fringe (subject)

If it were a direct object, you would use the accusative:

• я сушу мою чёлку = I am drying my bangs/fringe

So here the meaning is not someone dries my bangs, but rather my bangs will dry.

Высохнет means will dry / will become dry. It focuses on the completion of the drying process.

This is the perfective future of высохнуть.

So:

• чёлка высохнет = the bangs will dry / will be dry
• чёлка будет сухой = the bangs will be dry

Both can work in some contexts, but высохнет is more natural here because the stylist is talking about the process reaching its result very soon.

Высохнет is a perfective verb form.

Russian aspect matters because it tells you whether you are talking about:

• a process in progress / repeated action (imperfective)
• a completed result (perfective)

Here, the stylist means that after a short time, the bangs will have finished drying. That is why Russian uses the perfective future:

• высохнет = will dry completely / will be dry

An imperfective form would not fit as well here if the focus is on the result being achieved.

Что introduces a subordinate clause and means that.

So:

• сказала, что... = said that...

In English, that is often optional:

• She said that my bangs would dry in a minute.
• She said my bangs would dry in a minute.

In Russian, что is normally used in this structure.

Через минуту literally means after a minute, and in natural English it is often translated as in a minute.

It means that one minute from now, the result will happen.

So here:

• моя чёлка высохнет через минуту = my bangs will dry in a minute / after a minute

It points to the moment in the future when the bangs will be dry.

This is a very common question.

• через минуту = in a minute / after a minute
  → focuses on when something will happen
• за минуту = in one minute / within one minute
  → focuses on how long it takes to complete something

So:

• Моя чёлка высохнет через минуту = My bangs will be dry in a minute.
• Я высушу чёлку за минуту = I’ll dry the bangs in one minute.

In your sentence, через минуту is natural because the stylist is predicting the result a minute from now.

Yes, Russian word order is flexible.

The version in the sentence is neutral and natural:

• что моя чёлка высохнет через минуту

But Russian could also say:

• что через минуту моя чёлка высохнет

That version puts a bit more emphasis on the time expression.

Russian word order often changes for emphasis, rhythm, or information structure, not because the grammar changes. The case endings and verb forms still tell you who is doing what.

Yes: the letter ё matters.

• чёлка is pronounced with yo, roughly CHYOL-ka
• In everyday writing, Russians often replace ё with е, so you may also see челка

But the correct pronunciation is still with ё. This is very common in Russian: many words with ё are written with е in ordinary text.

Because Russian has no articles.

English says:

• In the salon, the stylist turned on a/the hair dryer...

Russian simply says:

• В салоне мастер включила фен...

Russian expresses definiteness from context instead of using words like the or a. In this sentence, the context makes it clear that we mean the stylist in that salon situation, and the hair dryer being used there.

Not in the English sense of master.

In salon language, мастер often means something like:

• stylist
• technician
• specialist
• beautician

So in this sentence, a natural English translation would usually use the stylist or the hairdresser, not the master.

Because the sentence mixes two time frames:

1. What already happened:
   • включила = turned on
   • сказала = said

These are past tense, singular, feminine, because the stylist already did those actions.

2. What the stylist predicted:
   • высохнет = will dry

This is future tense, because the drying happens after the moment of speaking.

So the structure is:

• In the salon, the stylist turned on the hair dryer and said that my bangs would dry / will dry in a minute.

Yes, depending on how you translate it into natural English.

Russian says:

• сказала, что моя чёлка высохнет через минуту

A very direct translation is:

• She said that my bangs will dry in a minute.

But in standard English sequence of tenses, many speakers prefer:

• She said that my bangs would dry in a minute.

Both represent the same Russian meaning. Russian does not shift the future here the way English often does after a past reporting verb.