SALON MANAGER CORE MANUAL UPDATED EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Advanced practice esthetician. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔any person licensed in the practice of cosmetology, esthiology, nail
technology services, or eyelash technology services.
✔✔Scope. - ✔✔For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this part have the
meanings given them, unless their context clearly requires otherwise.
✔✔Active license. - ✔✔a current license that has not expired and is not retired.
✔✔Advanced exfoliation. - ✔✔a cosmetic procedure removing epidermal skin cells
through manual, mechanical, or chemical means.
✔✔Advanced extraction. - ✔✔an extraction performed using lancets or needles.
✔✔Advertising. - ✔✔any written or graphic representation designed to elicit enrollment
or the sale of goods or services and includes signs, displays, circulars, business cards,
brochures, and recruitment materials in print, on air, or online.
✔✔Autoclave. - ✔✔a device registered and listed with the Food and Drug
Administration used to sterilize tools, equipment, and supplies by subjecting them to
high pressure saturated steam.
✔✔Basic exfoliation. - ✔✔the removal of dead skin cells in the stratum corneum layer of
the epidermis through manual or chemical means.
, ✔✔Basic extraction. - ✔✔extractions performed using gloved fingers, cotton swabs, or
comedone extractors.
✔✔Board. - ✔✔the Board of Cosmetologist Examiners.
✔✔Chemical peel. - ✔✔a chemical exfoliation achieved by applying nonprescription
chemical solutions or products.
✔✔Clean. - ✔✔free from all soil, dirt, and debris, and washed with soap and water, or a
cleaning agent, and rinsed.
✔✔Compensation. - ✔✔a monetary or nonmonetary remuneration for services.
✔✔Disinfect. - ✔✔the use of an antimicrobial pesticide that eliminates harmful bacteria,
fungi, and viruses on nonporous surfaces.
✔✔Disinfectant. - ✔✔an antimicrobial pesticide that is registered with the Environmental
Protection Agency for use in a hospital setting and is a bactericide, virucide, and
fungicide.
✔✔Dispensary. - ✔✔a physical location or area in a salon or school where products,
chemicals, and disinfectants are prepared, measured, mixed, portioned, or disposed of,
and where tools and implements are cleaned and disinfected or sterilized.
✔✔Electrical energy treatments. - ✔✔advanced practice esthetic services for the
cosmetic care of the skin that use electrical energy as applied by skin care equipment
used on the epidermal layer. Electrical energy treatments use light, direct current,
indirect current, or sound energy, but do not include laser as identified in Minnesota
Statutes, section 147.081, subdivision 3, as the practice of medicine.
✔✔Extraction. - ✔✔the cosmetic technique of removing impactions and comedones
from follicles.
✔✔Good repair. - ✔✔an item is clean, with no holes, frayed wires, or tears in coverings,
and fully operational for the purpose intended.
✔✔Hair braider. - ✔✔person who offers to perform or performs hair braiding or hair
braiding services as defined in subparts 10b and 10c.
✔✔Hair braiding. - ✔✔a natural form of hair manipulation that results in tension on hair
strands by beading, braiding, cornrowing, extending, lacing, locking, sewing, twisting,
weaving, or wrapping human hair, natural fibers, synthetic fibers, and/or hair extensions
into a variety of shapes, patterns, and textures (predominantly by hand and/or by simple
braiding devices), and maintenance thereof. Hair braiding includes what is commonly
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Advanced practice esthetician. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔any person licensed in the practice of cosmetology, esthiology, nail
technology services, or eyelash technology services.
✔✔Scope. - ✔✔For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this part have the
meanings given them, unless their context clearly requires otherwise.
✔✔Active license. - ✔✔a current license that has not expired and is not retired.
✔✔Advanced exfoliation. - ✔✔a cosmetic procedure removing epidermal skin cells
through manual, mechanical, or chemical means.
✔✔Advanced extraction. - ✔✔an extraction performed using lancets or needles.
✔✔Advertising. - ✔✔any written or graphic representation designed to elicit enrollment
or the sale of goods or services and includes signs, displays, circulars, business cards,
brochures, and recruitment materials in print, on air, or online.
✔✔Autoclave. - ✔✔a device registered and listed with the Food and Drug
Administration used to sterilize tools, equipment, and supplies by subjecting them to
high pressure saturated steam.
✔✔Basic exfoliation. - ✔✔the removal of dead skin cells in the stratum corneum layer of
the epidermis through manual or chemical means.
, ✔✔Basic extraction. - ✔✔extractions performed using gloved fingers, cotton swabs, or
comedone extractors.
✔✔Board. - ✔✔the Board of Cosmetologist Examiners.
✔✔Chemical peel. - ✔✔a chemical exfoliation achieved by applying nonprescription
chemical solutions or products.
✔✔Clean. - ✔✔free from all soil, dirt, and debris, and washed with soap and water, or a
cleaning agent, and rinsed.
✔✔Compensation. - ✔✔a monetary or nonmonetary remuneration for services.
✔✔Disinfect. - ✔✔the use of an antimicrobial pesticide that eliminates harmful bacteria,
fungi, and viruses on nonporous surfaces.
✔✔Disinfectant. - ✔✔an antimicrobial pesticide that is registered with the Environmental
Protection Agency for use in a hospital setting and is a bactericide, virucide, and
fungicide.
✔✔Dispensary. - ✔✔a physical location or area in a salon or school where products,
chemicals, and disinfectants are prepared, measured, mixed, portioned, or disposed of,
and where tools and implements are cleaned and disinfected or sterilized.
✔✔Electrical energy treatments. - ✔✔advanced practice esthetic services for the
cosmetic care of the skin that use electrical energy as applied by skin care equipment
used on the epidermal layer. Electrical energy treatments use light, direct current,
indirect current, or sound energy, but do not include laser as identified in Minnesota
Statutes, section 147.081, subdivision 3, as the practice of medicine.
✔✔Extraction. - ✔✔the cosmetic technique of removing impactions and comedones
from follicles.
✔✔Good repair. - ✔✔an item is clean, with no holes, frayed wires, or tears in coverings,
and fully operational for the purpose intended.
✔✔Hair braider. - ✔✔person who offers to perform or performs hair braiding or hair
braiding services as defined in subparts 10b and 10c.
✔✔Hair braiding. - ✔✔a natural form of hair manipulation that results in tension on hair
strands by beading, braiding, cornrowing, extending, lacing, locking, sewing, twisting,
weaving, or wrapping human hair, natural fibers, synthetic fibers, and/or hair extensions
into a variety of shapes, patterns, and textures (predominantly by hand and/or by simple
braiding devices), and maintenance thereof. Hair braiding includes what is commonly
