MN Salon Manager Questions and Answers
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• Cosmetology. CORRECT ANSWER: the practice of personal services, for
compensation, for the cosmetic care of the hair, nails, and skin. These services include
cleaning, conditioning, shaping, reinforcing, coloring and enhancing the body surface in
the areas of the head, scalp, face, arms, hands, legs, feet, and trunk of the body, except
where these services are performed by a barber.
• cosmetologist. CORRECT ANSWER: any person who, for compensation, performs the
personal services, as defined in subdivision 3
• Eyelash Extensions. CORRECT ANSWER: the application, removal, and trimming of
threadlike natural or synthetic fibers to an eyelash, and includes the cleansing of the
eye area and lashes. Eyelash extensions do not include color agents, straightening
agents, permanent wave solutions, bleaching agents, applications to the eyebrow, or
any other cosmetology service.
• Eyelash technician. CORRECT ANSWER: is any person who is not a cosmetologist,
esthetician, or advanced practice esthetician who, for compensation, performs the
personal services limited to eyelash extensions as defined in subdivision 4a only.
• Esthetician. CORRECT ANSWER: any person who, for compensation, performs
personal services for the cosmetic care of the skin only.
• Individual license.. CORRECT ANSWER: means a license described in section
155A.25, subdivision 1a, paragraph (b), clause (1).
• Nail technician.. CORRECT ANSWER: any person who, for compensation, performs
personal services for the cosmetic care of the hands, feet, and nails only.
• Manager.. CORRECT ANSWER: is any person who is a cosmetologist, esthetician,
advanced practice esthetician, nail technician practitioner, or eyelash technician
practitioner, and who has a manager license and provides any services under that
license, as defined in subdivision 3.
• Mobile salon.. CORRECT ANSWER: a salon that is operated in a mobile vehicle or
mobile structure for exclusive use to offer personal services, as defined in subdivision 3.
• Salon.. CORRECT ANSWER: an area, room, or rooms employed to offer personal
services, as defined in subdivision 3. "Salon" does not include the home of a customer
but the board may adopt health and infection control rules governing practice in the
homes of customers.
, • School.. CORRECT ANSWER: a place where any person operates and maintains a
class to teach cosmetology to the public for compensation. "School" does not include a
place where the only teaching of cosmetology is done by a licensed cosmetologist as
part of a community education program of less than ten hours duration, provided that
the program does not permit practice on persons other than students in the program,
and provided that the program is intended solely for the self-improvement of the
students and not as preparation for professional practice.
• Instructor.. CORRECT ANSWER: any person employed by a school to prepare and
present the theoretical and practical education of cosmetology to persons who seek to
practice cosmetology. An instructor must maintain an active operator or manager's
license in the area in which the instructor holds an instructor's license.
• Person.. CORRECT ANSWER: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and
corporate, and to partnership and other unincorporated associations.
• Threading.. CORRECT ANSWER: a method of removing hair from the eyebrows,
upper lip, or other body parts by using cotton thread to pull hair from follicles. Threading
does not include the use of chemicals or any type of wax. Threading may include the
use of (1) over-the-counter astringents, gels, and powders; and (2) tweezers and
scissors incidental to threading.
• Advanced practice esthetician.. CORRECT ANSWER: a person who for compensation
performs personal services for the cosmetic care of the skin, including the use of
mechanical or electrical skin care apparatuses or appliances that are used on the
epidermal layer of the skin.
• Designated licensed salon manager.. CORRECT ANSWER: a manager designated by
a salon owner and registered with the board, who is responsible with the salon owner
for salon and practitioner compliance.
• School manager. CORRECT ANSWER: a cosmetologist who is a salon manager and
who has a school manager license. A school manager must maintain an active salon
manager's license.
• Designated school manager.. CORRECT ANSWER: school manager who is
designated by the school owner and registered with the board, who is responsible with
the school owner for school and instructor compliance.
• Practitioner.. CORRECT ANSWER: any person licensed in the practice of
cosmetology, esthiology, nail technology services, or eyelash technology services.
• Scope.. CORRECT ANSWER: For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in
this part have the meanings given them, unless their context clearly requires otherwise.
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• Cosmetology. CORRECT ANSWER: the practice of personal services, for
compensation, for the cosmetic care of the hair, nails, and skin. These services include
cleaning, conditioning, shaping, reinforcing, coloring and enhancing the body surface in
the areas of the head, scalp, face, arms, hands, legs, feet, and trunk of the body, except
where these services are performed by a barber.
• cosmetologist. CORRECT ANSWER: any person who, for compensation, performs the
personal services, as defined in subdivision 3
• Eyelash Extensions. CORRECT ANSWER: the application, removal, and trimming of
threadlike natural or synthetic fibers to an eyelash, and includes the cleansing of the
eye area and lashes. Eyelash extensions do not include color agents, straightening
agents, permanent wave solutions, bleaching agents, applications to the eyebrow, or
any other cosmetology service.
• Eyelash technician. CORRECT ANSWER: is any person who is not a cosmetologist,
esthetician, or advanced practice esthetician who, for compensation, performs the
personal services limited to eyelash extensions as defined in subdivision 4a only.
• Esthetician. CORRECT ANSWER: any person who, for compensation, performs
personal services for the cosmetic care of the skin only.
• Individual license.. CORRECT ANSWER: means a license described in section
155A.25, subdivision 1a, paragraph (b), clause (1).
• Nail technician.. CORRECT ANSWER: any person who, for compensation, performs
personal services for the cosmetic care of the hands, feet, and nails only.
• Manager.. CORRECT ANSWER: is any person who is a cosmetologist, esthetician,
advanced practice esthetician, nail technician practitioner, or eyelash technician
practitioner, and who has a manager license and provides any services under that
license, as defined in subdivision 3.
• Mobile salon.. CORRECT ANSWER: a salon that is operated in a mobile vehicle or
mobile structure for exclusive use to offer personal services, as defined in subdivision 3.
• Salon.. CORRECT ANSWER: an area, room, or rooms employed to offer personal
services, as defined in subdivision 3. "Salon" does not include the home of a customer
but the board may adopt health and infection control rules governing practice in the
homes of customers.
, • School.. CORRECT ANSWER: a place where any person operates and maintains a
class to teach cosmetology to the public for compensation. "School" does not include a
place where the only teaching of cosmetology is done by a licensed cosmetologist as
part of a community education program of less than ten hours duration, provided that
the program does not permit practice on persons other than students in the program,
and provided that the program is intended solely for the self-improvement of the
students and not as preparation for professional practice.
• Instructor.. CORRECT ANSWER: any person employed by a school to prepare and
present the theoretical and practical education of cosmetology to persons who seek to
practice cosmetology. An instructor must maintain an active operator or manager's
license in the area in which the instructor holds an instructor's license.
• Person.. CORRECT ANSWER: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and
corporate, and to partnership and other unincorporated associations.
• Threading.. CORRECT ANSWER: a method of removing hair from the eyebrows,
upper lip, or other body parts by using cotton thread to pull hair from follicles. Threading
does not include the use of chemicals or any type of wax. Threading may include the
use of (1) over-the-counter astringents, gels, and powders; and (2) tweezers and
scissors incidental to threading.
• Advanced practice esthetician.. CORRECT ANSWER: a person who for compensation
performs personal services for the cosmetic care of the skin, including the use of
mechanical or electrical skin care apparatuses or appliances that are used on the
epidermal layer of the skin.
• Designated licensed salon manager.. CORRECT ANSWER: a manager designated by
a salon owner and registered with the board, who is responsible with the salon owner
for salon and practitioner compliance.
• School manager. CORRECT ANSWER: a cosmetologist who is a salon manager and
who has a school manager license. A school manager must maintain an active salon
manager's license.
• Designated school manager.. CORRECT ANSWER: school manager who is
designated by the school owner and registered with the board, who is responsible with
the school owner for school and instructor compliance.
• Practitioner.. CORRECT ANSWER: any person licensed in the practice of
cosmetology, esthiology, nail technology services, or eyelash technology services.
• Scope.. CORRECT ANSWER: For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in
this part have the meanings given them, unless their context clearly requires otherwise.
