QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Microdermabrasion - ✔✔means a cosmetic procedure using mechanical or manual
means of light abrasion on the epidermal layer of the skin
✔✔Mobile structure - ✔✔means a trailer or other enclosed space towed by a vehicle. A
mobile structure does not include a manufactured home as defined in Minnesota
Statutes, section 327.31, subdivision 6.
✔✔Nursing home - ✔✔means a facility that is licensed under Minnesota Statutes,
chapter 144A, and does not include any attached or adjacent facilities that are not
licensed as a nursing home under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 144A.
✔✔Operator - ✔✔means a standard license for a practitioner and not a manager
license
✔✔Physical location - ✔✔means the contiguous space representing each salon that
can be accessed by customers without exiting the salon
✔✔Porous material - ✔✔means a material that absorbs liquid or allows liquid to
penetrate
✔✔Sharps - ✔✔means any object,sterile or contaminated, that may purposefully or
accidentally cut or penetrate the skin or mucosa including presterilized single-use
lancets, dermal blades, and razor blades.
✔✔Sharps container - ✔✔means a closed, puncture-resistant, leak-proof container,
labeled with the international biohazard symbol, that is used for handling, storage,
transportation, and disposal of sharps.
✔✔Simple braiding devices - ✔✔include clips, combs, curlers, curling irons, hairpins,
rollers, scissors, needles, and thread.
✔✔Special event - ✔✔means an event held for any purpose other than the
provision of licensed services, where a participant in the event may receive the limited
cosmetology
services described in part 2105.0410, subpart 2, at a location not in a licensed salon.
✔✔Sterilization - ✔✔means the destruction of all microbial life and spores through the
use of heat, steam, or chemical sterilants
, ✔✔Suite-style salon - ✔✔means a business under part 2105.0397 specializing in
leasing or renting individual rooms or suites to licensees, where the salon license may
be carried by the business or where each suite has its own salon license.
✔✔Unregulated service - ✔✔means those services not defined as the practice of
cosmetology under Minnesota Statutes, section 155A.23, subdivision 3, and that are
exempt from regulation by the board. Unregulated services are ear piercing; body art;
body painting; henna tattoos and permanent tattoos; eyebrow embroidery; eyebrow
microblading; permanent hair removal; permanent makeup; tanning by UV radiation and
spray tanning units; injectables;services for theatrical, television, film, fashion,
photography, or media productions or media appearances; mortuary services;
massage; body wraps and lymphatic drainage when performed by a massage therapist;
the practice of medicine as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 147.081, subdivision
3; hair braiding; and threading as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 155A.23,
subdivision 13
✔✔Work area - ✔✔means a space where regulated services are provided. A separate
work area is created when the service area is partitioned from other salon spaces or
work areas by walls at least six feet high and doorways of less than five feet in width.
✔✔scope of practice for cosmetology - ✔✔A. shampooing, conditioning, cutting,
clipping, coloring, dressing, processing, shaping,
straightening, bleaching, tinting, styling, blow-drying, or waving a person's hair,
eyebrows, or
eyelashes;
B. styling, cutting, and coloring wigs when on a person's head;
C. cleansing, massaging, and stimulating the scalp;
D. using a razor to remove hair from the head, face, and neck; and
E. other services for the cosmetic care of the hair, head, and scalp.
✔✔scope of practice for esthiology - ✔✔Is the cosmetic treatment of the stratum
corneum
of the epidermal layer of the skin surface. Esthetic practice includes eyelash technology
services
in subpart 4 and includes items A to F:
A. cleansing, stimulating, or massaging a person's scalp, face, neck, arms, legs, or
trunk
with or without the use of any cosmetic preparation, antiseptic, tonic, lotion, or cream;
B. cosmetic care of a person's face, eyelashes, eyebrows, lips, nose, neck, arms, legs,
or
trunk using a cosmetic preparation, antiseptic, tonic, lotion, powder, oil, gels, paraffin,
clay, cream,
or makeup;
C. basic exfoliation as defined in part 2105.0010, manual or machine skin cleansing,
and
basic extractions;