At ozashiki and on the stage both geisha and Maiko are heavily-powdered with Shironuri (white makeup), but while a geisha usually wears a wig, Maiko dresses her hair in traditional Japanese style and wears a gorgeous ornate hairpin, tsumami-kanzashi (a decorative hair pin) featuring something like flowers of each season.
座敷や舞台に上がるときは芸妓も舞妓も白塗りの厚化粧をするが芸妓が通常鬘を付けるのに対し、舞妓は自髪で日本髪を結い、四季の花などをあしらった華やかな簪つまみ簪を挿す。