MINNESOTA NAIL TECHNICIAN LAW TEST
2026 STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE STATE BOARD
REGULATIONS AND PRACTICE QUESTIONS
◉ Advertising. Answer: 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.
◉ Auto clave. Answer: 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
◉ Clean. Answer: Free of all soil, dirt, and debris, and washed with
soap and water, or a cleaning agent, and rinsed
◉ Disinfect. Answer: the use of an antimicrobial pesticide that
eliminates harmful bacteria, fungi, and viruses on nonporous
surfaces
◉ Homebound. Answer: an individual lacksthe physical or
intellectual capacity for independent transportation and is unable to
travel independently to a licensed salon
,◉ Microdermabrasion. Answer: a cosmetic procedure using
mechanical or manual means of light abrasion on the epidermal
layer of the skin
◉ Operator. Answer: a standard license for a practitioner and not a
manager license
◉ Porous Material. Answer: a material that absorbsliquid or allows
liquid to penetrate
◉ Sharps. Answer: 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
◉ Cosmetology. Answer: practice of personal services, for
compensation, for the cosmetic care of the hair, nails, and skin.
These services include cleaning, conditioning, shaping, reinforcing,
coloring and enhancing the body surface in the areas of the head,
scalp, face, arms, hands, legs, feet, and trunk of the body, except
where these services are performed by a barber
◉ Manager. Answer: any person who is a cosmetologist, esthetician,
advanced practice esthetician, hair technician, nail technician
practitioner, or eyelash technician, and who has a manager license
,and provides any services under that license, as defined in
subdivision 3.
◉ Cosmetology Scope. Answer: - shampooing, conditioning, cutting,
clipping, coloring, dressing, processing, shaping, straightening,
bleaching, tinting, styling, blow-drying, or waving a person's hair,
eyebrows, or eyelashes
- styling, cutting, and coloring wigs when on a persons head
- using rezor to remove hair from the head, face and neck
- other services for the cosmetic care of the hair, head, and scalp
◉ Esthetics scope of practice. Answer: - cleaning, 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;
- 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;
, - basic exfoliation as defined in part 2105.0010, manual or machine
skin cleansing, and basic extractions
- removing hair from a person's body using depilatories, waxes,
preparations, sugaring, or tweezing
- application of makeup or airbrush makeup, eyelash and eyebrow
tinting, eyebrow shaping and trimming, eyelash and eyebrow
enhancements, facials, and body wraps
- other cosmetic services on the stratum corneum layer of the
epidermis
◉ Nail technician scope of practice. Answer: - cleansing, removing
polish, cutting, trimming, polishing, tinting, coloring, or manicuring
the fingernails or toenails
- attaching and removing acrylic, other artificial nails, or nail
enhancements
- cleansing, massaging, and cosmetic care of the skin of the hands
and feet including paraffin treatments
2026 STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE STATE BOARD
REGULATIONS AND PRACTICE QUESTIONS
◉ Advertising. Answer: 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.
◉ Auto clave. Answer: 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
◉ Clean. Answer: Free of all soil, dirt, and debris, and washed with
soap and water, or a cleaning agent, and rinsed
◉ Disinfect. Answer: the use of an antimicrobial pesticide that
eliminates harmful bacteria, fungi, and viruses on nonporous
surfaces
◉ Homebound. Answer: an individual lacksthe physical or
intellectual capacity for independent transportation and is unable to
travel independently to a licensed salon
,◉ Microdermabrasion. Answer: a cosmetic procedure using
mechanical or manual means of light abrasion on the epidermal
layer of the skin
◉ Operator. Answer: a standard license for a practitioner and not a
manager license
◉ Porous Material. Answer: a material that absorbsliquid or allows
liquid to penetrate
◉ Sharps. Answer: 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
◉ Cosmetology. Answer: practice of personal services, for
compensation, for the cosmetic care of the hair, nails, and skin.
These services include cleaning, conditioning, shaping, reinforcing,
coloring and enhancing the body surface in the areas of the head,
scalp, face, arms, hands, legs, feet, and trunk of the body, except
where these services are performed by a barber
◉ Manager. Answer: any person who is a cosmetologist, esthetician,
advanced practice esthetician, hair technician, nail technician
practitioner, or eyelash technician, and who has a manager license
,and provides any services under that license, as defined in
subdivision 3.
◉ Cosmetology Scope. Answer: - shampooing, conditioning, cutting,
clipping, coloring, dressing, processing, shaping, straightening,
bleaching, tinting, styling, blow-drying, or waving a person's hair,
eyebrows, or eyelashes
- styling, cutting, and coloring wigs when on a persons head
- using rezor to remove hair from the head, face and neck
- other services for the cosmetic care of the hair, head, and scalp
◉ Esthetics scope of practice. Answer: - cleaning, 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;
- 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;
, - basic exfoliation as defined in part 2105.0010, manual or machine
skin cleansing, and basic extractions
- removing hair from a person's body using depilatories, waxes,
preparations, sugaring, or tweezing
- application of makeup or airbrush makeup, eyelash and eyebrow
tinting, eyebrow shaping and trimming, eyelash and eyebrow
enhancements, facials, and body wraps
- other cosmetic services on the stratum corneum layer of the
epidermis
◉ Nail technician scope of practice. Answer: - cleansing, removing
polish, cutting, trimming, polishing, tinting, coloring, or manicuring
the fingernails or toenails
- attaching and removing acrylic, other artificial nails, or nail
enhancements
- cleansing, massaging, and cosmetic care of the skin of the hands
and feet including paraffin treatments
