[lurk]

Like it or not, styling and cosmetology are a licensed industry requiring 1600-2000 hours of instruction and a state test to be certified.

One of the things they teach in the course is sanitation and infection/infestation control, since hair and scalp is a great place for disease and critters to proliferate. Stylists find all kinds of things that would make you jump back on peoples’ heads. Our daughter is a licensed cosmetologist, so we get an inside account.

Plus, it is not okay for a stylist who spends thousands on training and certification (styling schools can cost up to $25,000) to be in competition with an unlicensed person who didn’t take the hard road to get there.

It is in the interest of the public for the state to require training and salon standards.

[WildHighlander57]

Why not divide up the licenses; instead of having to take classes on everything from a to z, have separate certificates- one for nails, one for hair, etc.

[Svartalfiar]

Plus, it is not okay for a stylist who spends thousands on training and certification (styling schools can cost up to $25,000) to be in competition with an unlicensed person who didn’t take the hard road to get there.

Why is it okay for the state to require you to spend up to $25k just to cut hair? If people are willing to go to a hairdresser that self-taught, instead of someone who spent too much $$ to be 'certified', that is their choice. Just because someone was smart enough to take the easy road, shouldn't mean they can't offer their services to people willing to pay for them!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Not a big believer in freedom, are ya?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Like it or not, styling and cosmetology are a licensed industry requiring 1600-2000 hours of instruction and a state test to be certified.

One of the things they teach in the course is sanitation and infection/infestation control, since hair and scalp is a great place for disease and critters to proliferate. Stylists find all kinds of things that would make you jump back on peoples’ heads. Our daughter is a licensed cosmetologist, so we get an inside account.

Plus, it is not okay for a stylist who spends thousands on training and certification (styling schools can cost up to $25,000) to be in competition with an unlicensed person who didn’t take the hard road to get there.

It is in the interest of the public for the state to require training and salon standards.

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I think some are questioning the need for the standards being as strict as they are, not the concept of having standards and licensing in the first place.

That’s my take on it anyway.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Worksite inspections, and perhaps four hours of instruction annually for a hair braider.

No need for 2000 hours of instruction.

1500 hrs of flight time for the copilot on airlines.
Used to be much less.