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New law requires NY hairdressers to learn how to do all hair types, including Black hair
ABC via Yahoo ^ | 09 01 2026 | Staff

Posted on 09/08/2026 2:25:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

A new law requiring hairdressers in New York to learn how to do all hair types including Black hair is now in effect.

Starting Tuesday, anyone studying cosmetology in the state must be trained to work with diverse types of hair textures.

The number of hours needed to get a license won't change.

Instruction on how to do curly, wavy, coily and kinky hair must be integrated into the curriculum.

The goal of the law is to stop anyone from being turned away from a salon.

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KEYWORDS: 2manylaws; 2manylaws2manytaxes; 2manytaxes; blackhair; hair; hairdressers; newyork

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To: yesthatjallen

In the Universal Hot Crazy matrix Hairdressers are in the danger zone. This will just make them even more dangerous.


21 posted on 09/08/2026 2:45:15 PM PDT by xp38
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To: FreedomPoster
Especially if she’s the prototypical angry shaved head look black woman.

LOL!

The one who has no hair is the most outraged about hair.

22 posted on 09/08/2026 2:45:53 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: mass55th

The Black hairdressers are going to have something to say about this.


23 posted on 09/08/2026 2:47:20 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: yesthatjallen

If I am bald but I identify as a person with hair, can I sue them if they refuse to give me an afro?


24 posted on 09/08/2026 2:48:57 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Our long national nightmare is over!)
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To: yesthatjallen

This is normally taught in cosmetology school (at least in Memphis).


25 posted on 09/08/2026 2:49:55 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Reddy
Some black hair styles are ridiculously elaborate. Are they expecting everyone to know any and every style?

This is going to be jet fuel for lawsuits.

26 posted on 09/08/2026 2:51:04 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Are Nappies contagious??


27 posted on 09/08/2026 2:51:44 PM PDT by sit-rep (I may be Dumb, but I'm not Stupid!)
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To: yesthatjallen

If they have a school and license requirement then being familiar with all types of hair and related areas seems like it should be normal.


28 posted on 09/08/2026 2:54:21 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: yesthatjallen

How come lawyers aren’t regulated?


29 posted on 09/08/2026 3:00:25 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: yesthatjallen

how soon before new york state forbids MDs from specializing?


30 posted on 09/08/2026 3:04:56 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: All

I demand that they also learn how to do bald people too. We old, bald guys (and especially cancer patients of all chromosomic and age variants) need to be able to go to any hairdresser and feel catered to.


31 posted on 09/08/2026 3:14:46 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: yesthatjallen

What if they stink at doing it?


32 posted on 09/08/2026 3:18:55 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: LegendHasIt

Don’t they do some study on baldness?


33 posted on 09/08/2026 3:21:29 PM PDT by ansel12
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34 posted on 09/08/2026 3:23:08 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Are they expecting everyone to know any and every style?”

Hopefully, after they get their virtue signaling accolades, the end result will be hairdressers will have to pass a unit on “black hair” and then can move on.

Would they expect all medical students to perform all modalities of healthcare? They S*P*E*C*I*A*L*Z*E, just like hairdressers do.


35 posted on 09/08/2026 3:43:04 PM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: yesthatjallen

Shave ‘em bald. Offer wig and glue.


36 posted on 09/08/2026 3:49:06 PM PDT by dynachrome ("The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." —Tacitus, Annals 3.27)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Y’mean I have to TOUCH it?” 😒


37 posted on 09/08/2026 3:51:05 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: Reddy

“This stinks of virtue signaling by city hall.”

Sadly, it’s a STATE law.


38 posted on 09/08/2026 3:53:43 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.)
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To: yesthatjallen

In the memoir sections about the early careers of Muddy Waters and BB King they recalled they always arrived in a town on tour having to locate a barber, hotel or motel, dry cleaner, restaurant and so on that allowed black people. Usually would look for a black man and come up to him and ask.

Muddy remembered an older white woman on the other side of a motel office window taking one look at him and his carload of black musicians in the car, her eyes went wide open and she pulled down a shade with “Closed” on it.


39 posted on 09/08/2026 4:11:32 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Boiler Plate

Photo....

He is an executive in a “hedge” fund.

Considering adding a maze on top of his hedge.


40 posted on 09/08/2026 4:13:18 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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