MN SALON MANAGER UPDATED CORE MAIN
EXAMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Unregulated service - ✔✔those services not defined as the practice of cosmetology
and are exempt from regulation by the board. Include 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 unit; 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; hair braiding; and threading.
✔✔Work Area - ✔✔a space where regulated services are provided. A separate work
area is created when the service is partitioned from other salon spaces or work areas by
walls at least 6 feet high and doorways of less than 5 feet in width.
✔✔Cosmetology - ✔✔the practice of personal services, for compensation, for the
cosmetic care fo the hair, nails, and skin. These services include cleaning, conditioning,
shaping, reinforcing, coloring, and enhancing the body surface areas of the head, scalp,
face, arms, hands, feet, and trunk of the body, except where these services are
performed by a barber.
,✔✔Cosmetologist - ✔✔any person who, for compensation, performs the personal
services under cosmetology.
✔✔Eyelash Extensions - ✔✔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 - ✔✔any person who is not a cosmetologist, esthetician, or
advanced practice esthetician who, for compensation, performs the personal services
limited to eyelash extensions.
✔✔Esthetician - ✔✔any person who, for compensation, performs personal services for
the cosmetic care of the skin only.
✔✔Individual License - ✔✔a license.
✔✔Nail technician - ✔✔any person who, for compensation, performs personal services
for the cosmetic care of the hands, feet, and nails only.
✔✔Manager - ✔✔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 - ✔✔a salon that is operated in a mobile vehicle or mobile structure for
exclusive use to offer personal services.
✔✔Salon - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to
partnership and other unincorporated associations.
✔✔Threading - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 manger and who has a school
manager license. A school manager must maintain an active salon manager's license.
✔✔Designated School Manager - ✔✔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 - ✔✔any person licensed in the practice of cosmetology, esthiology, nail
technology services, or eyelash technology services.
✔✔Hairstyling - ✔✔the practice of cleaning, drying, arranging, or styling hair. it includes
the use of hair sprays and topical agents, such as shampoos, conditioners. It also
includes the use of styling hair extensions and wigs. It does not include cutting or the
application of dyes, bleach, reactive chemicals, keratin, or other preparations to color or
alter the structure of hair.
✔✔Makeup services - ✔✔the application of a cosmetics to enhance the face or skin,
including powder, foundation, rouge, eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara, and lipstick.
Makeup services includes the application of makeup applied using an airbrush. Makeup
services doe snot include the application of permanent makeup, tattooing, or facial
services.
✔✔Scope of Practice for Cosmetology - ✔✔includes: shampooing, conditioning, cutting,
clipping, coloring, dressing, processing, shaping, straightening, bleaching, tinting, blow-
drying, or waving a person's hair, eyebrows, or eyelashes. Styling, cutting, and coloring
wigs on a person's head. Cleansing, massaging, and stimulating the scalp. Using a
EXAMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Unregulated service - ✔✔those services not defined as the practice of cosmetology
and are exempt from regulation by the board. Include 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 unit; 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; hair braiding; and threading.
✔✔Work Area - ✔✔a space where regulated services are provided. A separate work
area is created when the service is partitioned from other salon spaces or work areas by
walls at least 6 feet high and doorways of less than 5 feet in width.
✔✔Cosmetology - ✔✔the practice of personal services, for compensation, for the
cosmetic care fo the hair, nails, and skin. These services include cleaning, conditioning,
shaping, reinforcing, coloring, and enhancing the body surface areas of the head, scalp,
face, arms, hands, feet, and trunk of the body, except where these services are
performed by a barber.
,✔✔Cosmetologist - ✔✔any person who, for compensation, performs the personal
services under cosmetology.
✔✔Eyelash Extensions - ✔✔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 - ✔✔any person who is not a cosmetologist, esthetician, or
advanced practice esthetician who, for compensation, performs the personal services
limited to eyelash extensions.
✔✔Esthetician - ✔✔any person who, for compensation, performs personal services for
the cosmetic care of the skin only.
✔✔Individual License - ✔✔a license.
✔✔Nail technician - ✔✔any person who, for compensation, performs personal services
for the cosmetic care of the hands, feet, and nails only.
✔✔Manager - ✔✔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 - ✔✔a salon that is operated in a mobile vehicle or mobile structure for
exclusive use to offer personal services.
✔✔Salon - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to
partnership and other unincorporated associations.
✔✔Threading - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 manger and who has a school
manager license. A school manager must maintain an active salon manager's license.
✔✔Designated School Manager - ✔✔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 - ✔✔any person licensed in the practice of cosmetology, esthiology, nail
technology services, or eyelash technology services.
✔✔Hairstyling - ✔✔the practice of cleaning, drying, arranging, or styling hair. it includes
the use of hair sprays and topical agents, such as shampoos, conditioners. It also
includes the use of styling hair extensions and wigs. It does not include cutting or the
application of dyes, bleach, reactive chemicals, keratin, or other preparations to color or
alter the structure of hair.
✔✔Makeup services - ✔✔the application of a cosmetics to enhance the face or skin,
including powder, foundation, rouge, eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara, and lipstick.
Makeup services includes the application of makeup applied using an airbrush. Makeup
services doe snot include the application of permanent makeup, tattooing, or facial
services.
✔✔Scope of Practice for Cosmetology - ✔✔includes: shampooing, conditioning, cutting,
clipping, coloring, dressing, processing, shaping, straightening, bleaching, tinting, blow-
drying, or waving a person's hair, eyebrows, or eyelashes. Styling, cutting, and coloring
wigs on a person's head. Cleansing, massaging, and stimulating the scalp. Using a
