MN SALON MANAGER LICENSE 2026 MASTER
STUDY EXAM
◉ Esthetician. Answer: any person who, for compensation, performs
personal services for the cosmetic care of the skin only.
◉ Individual License. Answer: a license.
◉ Nail technician. Answer: any person who, for compensation,
performs personal services for the cosmetic care of the hands, feet,
and nails only.
◉ Manager. Answer: any person who is a cosmetologist, esthetician,
advanced practice esthetician, nail technician, or eyelash technician
practitioner, and who has a manager license and provides any
services under that license.
◉ Mobile salon. Answer: a salon that is operated in a mobile vehicle
or mobile structure for exclusive use to offer personal services.
◉ Salon. Answer: an area, room, or rooms employed to offer
personal services. Does not include the home of a customer but the
board may adopt health and infection control rules governing in the
homes of customers.
,◉ School. Answer: a place where any person operates and maintains
a class to teach cosmetology to the public for compensation. 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 10 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. 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 manger's license in the area in which
the instructor holds an instructor's license.
◉ Person. Answer: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and
corporate, and to partnership and other unincorporated
associations.
◉ Threading. Answer: a method of removing hair for 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; 2) tweezers and scissors
incidental to threading.
, ◉ Advanced Practice esthetician. 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 epidermal layer of the
skin.
◉ Designated License Salon Manager. 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. Answer: a cosmetologist who is a salon manger
and who has a school manager license. A school manager must
maintain an active salon manager's license.
◉ Designated School Manager. Answer: a cosmetologist who is a
salon manager who is designated by the school owner and
registered with the board, who is responsible with the school owner
for the school and instructor compliance.
◉ Practitioner. Answer: any person licensed in the practice of
cosmetology, esthiology, nail technology services, or eyelash
technology services.
STUDY EXAM
◉ Esthetician. Answer: any person who, for compensation, performs
personal services for the cosmetic care of the skin only.
◉ Individual License. Answer: a license.
◉ Nail technician. Answer: any person who, for compensation,
performs personal services for the cosmetic care of the hands, feet,
and nails only.
◉ Manager. Answer: any person who is a cosmetologist, esthetician,
advanced practice esthetician, nail technician, or eyelash technician
practitioner, and who has a manager license and provides any
services under that license.
◉ Mobile salon. Answer: a salon that is operated in a mobile vehicle
or mobile structure for exclusive use to offer personal services.
◉ Salon. Answer: an area, room, or rooms employed to offer
personal services. Does not include the home of a customer but the
board may adopt health and infection control rules governing in the
homes of customers.
,◉ School. Answer: a place where any person operates and maintains
a class to teach cosmetology to the public for compensation. 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 10 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. 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 manger's license in the area in which
the instructor holds an instructor's license.
◉ Person. Answer: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and
corporate, and to partnership and other unincorporated
associations.
◉ Threading. Answer: a method of removing hair for 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; 2) tweezers and scissors
incidental to threading.
, ◉ Advanced Practice esthetician. 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 epidermal layer of the
skin.
◉ Designated License Salon Manager. 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. Answer: a cosmetologist who is a salon manger
and who has a school manager license. A school manager must
maintain an active salon manager's license.
◉ Designated School Manager. Answer: a cosmetologist who is a
salon manager who is designated by the school owner and
registered with the board, who is responsible with the school owner
for the school and instructor compliance.
◉ Practitioner. Answer: any person licensed in the practice of
cosmetology, esthiology, nail technology services, or eyelash
technology services.
