Learn Spanish (Latin America): El estilista me va a cortar el pelo rizado. - The stylist is going to cut my curly hair.

Words ending in -ista that refer to professions (like estilista, dentista, or artista) can be either masculine or feminine depending on the person. Since we are talking about a male stylist, we use the masculine article el. If it were a female stylist, it would be la estilista.

Why does it say el pelo (the hair) instead of mi pelo (my hair)?

In Spanish, when talking about body parts, you usually use the definite article (el, la, los, las) instead of a possessive word like mi (my). The pronoun me earlier in the sentence (me va a cortar) already makes it clear whose hair is being cut!

Could the pronoun me go somewhere else in this sentence?

Yes! When you have a verb phrase that uses an infinitive, like va a cortar (is going to cut), you can put the pronoun me right before the first verb, which gives us me va a cortar. Alternatively, you can attach it to the end of the infinitive to make va a cortarme. Both are perfectly correct and mean the same thing.

How could I use this vocabulary to make a polite request to the stylist?