SALON MANAGER EXAM SCRIPT UPDATED EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Microdermabrasion. - ✔✔a cosmetic procedure using mechanical or manual means
of light abrasion on the epidermal layer of the skin.
✔✔Mobile structure. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔a standard license for a practitioner and not a manager license.
✔✔Physical location. - ✔✔the contiguous space representing each salon that can be
accessed by customers without exiting the salon.
✔✔Porous material. - ✔✔a material that absorbs liquid or allows liquid to penetrate.
✔✔Sharps. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔the destruction of all microbial life and spores through the use of
heat, steam, or chemical sterilants.
✔✔Suite-style salon. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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; and hair braiding, hair
braiding services, and hair braiders, as defined in subparts 10a to 10c; and threading as
defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 155A.23, subdivision 13. Ordinances by local
units of government that prohibit hair braiding, hair braiding services, or hair braiders, as
defined in subparts 10a to 10c, or regulate any matter relating to licensing, testing, or
training of hair braiding, hair braiding services, or hair braiders are preempted by this
part.
✔✔Work area. - ✔✔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 Cosmetology - ✔✔practice includes:
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 Esthetics - ✔✔Includes:
A. cleansing, stimulating, exfoliating, 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, manual or machine skin cleansing, and basic extractions;
D. removing hair from a person's body using depilatories, waxes, preparations,
sugaring, or tweezing;
E. application of makeup or airbrush makeup, eyelash and eyebrow tinting, eyebrow
shaping and trimming, eyelash and eyebrow enhancements, facials, and body wraps;
and
F. other cosmetic services on the stratum corneum layer of the epidermis.
✔✔Nail technician services. - ✔✔includes:
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Microdermabrasion. - ✔✔a cosmetic procedure using mechanical or manual means
of light abrasion on the epidermal layer of the skin.
✔✔Mobile structure. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔a standard license for a practitioner and not a manager license.
✔✔Physical location. - ✔✔the contiguous space representing each salon that can be
accessed by customers without exiting the salon.
✔✔Porous material. - ✔✔a material that absorbs liquid or allows liquid to penetrate.
✔✔Sharps. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔the destruction of all microbial life and spores through the use of
heat, steam, or chemical sterilants.
✔✔Suite-style salon. - ✔✔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. - ✔✔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; and hair braiding, hair
braiding services, and hair braiders, as defined in subparts 10a to 10c; and threading as
defined in Minnesota Statutes, section 155A.23, subdivision 13. Ordinances by local
units of government that prohibit hair braiding, hair braiding services, or hair braiders, as
defined in subparts 10a to 10c, or regulate any matter relating to licensing, testing, or
training of hair braiding, hair braiding services, or hair braiders are preempted by this
part.
✔✔Work area. - ✔✔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 Cosmetology - ✔✔practice includes:
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 Esthetics - ✔✔Includes:
A. cleansing, stimulating, exfoliating, 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, manual or machine skin cleansing, and basic extractions;
D. removing hair from a person's body using depilatories, waxes, preparations,
sugaring, or tweezing;
E. application of makeup or airbrush makeup, eyelash and eyebrow tinting, eyebrow
shaping and trimming, eyelash and eyebrow enhancements, facials, and body wraps;
and
F. other cosmetic services on the stratum corneum layer of the epidermis.
✔✔Nail technician services. - ✔✔includes:
