[Sacajaweau]

why do you need a license to cut hair?

[IncPen]

why do you need a license to cut hair

Your permit fees pay for the pensions of the crooks with their boot on your neck.

Next question!

[TexasGator]

“why do you need a license to cut hair?”

I believe it is Michigan to give a haircut to anyone outside the immediate family without a license.

[Mercat]

Originally barbers were also minor surgeons. They would bleed people when that was considered a rational medical treatment.

[Hot Tabasco]

I just paid $165 for a haircut. Well, not really. After eight weeks, I was desperate and finally searched the internet for a pair of electric hair trimmers. Virtually every website offering the WAHL clippers was out of stock and I finally had to purchase the most expensive pair they offer thru a barber supply company.

Anyway, I gave myself a buzz cut and it actually came out good except for the fact that I didn't know how to keep the top and the front longer than the sides.......oh well.

Practice makes perfect and ball caps hide the screw ups........LOL!

[Dr. Sivana]

why do you need a license to cut hair?

One of the things the licensing classes focus on is what to do if you have a customer with lice. Health issue.

[decal]

“Why do you need a license to cut hair?”

There was a state legislator in Texas (I want to say it was Eddie Bernice Johnson) who claimed cosmetology licenses are necessary because they can detect venereal diseases in your scalp...

[gnarledmaw]

I cant claim to know the justification in every state. The justification government claims here is that there is no such thing as a “hair cutter”. While modern barbers don’t do surgery, present day “cosmetologists” do work with blades and chemicals. Supposedly it is within the realm of possibility, small chance but theoretically possible, for someone to get badly cut or seriously burned by the treatments and having someone trained makes it all safer.

I agree with you that a “hair cutter” probably shouldn’t need a license. At the same time though, those using other processes, like formaldehyde generating “Brazillians” or high concentration peroxide bleaches, should probably have some idea of what they are doing.

(Peroxide: I, not a hair dresser, was once horsing around with some highly concentrated peroxide. I wasn’t wearing gloves and I accidentally spilled a bunch on the back of my left hand and it ran down my fingers. It foamed like one might expect if it had been put on a wound and stung as it ran down. I reflexively shook my hand but none of it came off. I immediately went to wash it off but the “foam” wouldn’t come off, the portion of my hand it had run down was burned into something like a flexible porkie rind.)

[353FMG]

It’s like getting a driver’s license. It is money for the state. Always follow the money.