MN Salon Manager Questions and Answers
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• Cosmetology -✓✓the 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
• Cosmetologist -✓✓any person who, for compensation, performs the
personal services
• Eyelash extensions -✓✓means 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 -✓✓is any person who is not a cosmetologist,
esthetician, or advanced practice esthetician who, for compensation,
performs the personal services limited to eyelash extensions
• Esthetician -✓✓is any person who, for compensation, performs personal
services for the cosmetic care of the skin only.
• Individual license -✓✓means a license described in section 155A.25,
subdivision 1a, paragraph (b), clause (1).
• Nail technician -✓✓is any person who, for compensation, performs
personal services for the cosmetic care of the hands, feet, and nails only
• Manager -✓✓is any person who is a cosmetologist, esthetician,
advanced practice esthetician, nail technician practitioner, or eyelash
technician practitioner, and who has a manager license and provides any
services under that license
,• Mobile salon -✓✓is 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.
It does not include the home of a customer but the board may adopt health
and infection control rules governing practice in the homes of customers.
• School -✓✓is a place where any person operates and maintains a class
to teach cosmetology to the public for compensation. It 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 ten
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 -✓✓is any person employed by a school to prepare and
present the theoretical and practical education of cosmetology to persons
who seek to practice cosmetology. They must maintain an active operator
or manager'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 -✓✓is a method of removing hair from the eyebrows, upper lip,
or other body parts by using cotton thread to pull hair from follicles. It does
not include the use of chemicals or any type of wax. It may include the use
of (1) over-the-counter astringents, gels, and powders; and (2) tweezers
and scissors incidental to threading.
• Advanced practice esthetician -✓✓is 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 the epidermal layer of the skin
, • Designated licensed salon manager -✓✓is 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 -✓✓is a cosmetologist who is a salon manager and who
has a school manager license. A school manager must maintain an active
salon manager's license.
• Designated school manager -✓✓is a school manager who is designated
by the school owner and registered with the board, who is responsible with
the school owner for school and instructor compliance
• Practitioner -✓✓is any person licensed in the practice of cosmetology,
esthiology, nail technology services, or eyelash technology services.
• Scope -✓✓For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this part
have the meanings given them, unless their context clearly requires
otherwise
• Active license -✓✓means a current license that has not expired and is not
retired.
• Advanced exfoliation -✓✓means a cosmetic procedure removing
epidermal skin cells through manual, mechanical, or chemical means.
• Advanced extraction -✓✓means an extraction performed using lancets or
needles.
• Advertising -✓✓means 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.
• Autoclave -✓✓means 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
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• Cosmetology -✓✓the 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
• Cosmetologist -✓✓any person who, for compensation, performs the
personal services
• Eyelash extensions -✓✓means 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 -✓✓is any person who is not a cosmetologist,
esthetician, or advanced practice esthetician who, for compensation,
performs the personal services limited to eyelash extensions
• Esthetician -✓✓is any person who, for compensation, performs personal
services for the cosmetic care of the skin only.
• Individual license -✓✓means a license described in section 155A.25,
subdivision 1a, paragraph (b), clause (1).
• Nail technician -✓✓is any person who, for compensation, performs
personal services for the cosmetic care of the hands, feet, and nails only
• Manager -✓✓is any person who is a cosmetologist, esthetician,
advanced practice esthetician, nail technician practitioner, or eyelash
technician practitioner, and who has a manager license and provides any
services under that license
,• Mobile salon -✓✓is 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.
It does not include the home of a customer but the board may adopt health
and infection control rules governing practice in the homes of customers.
• School -✓✓is a place where any person operates and maintains a class
to teach cosmetology to the public for compensation. It 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 ten
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 -✓✓is any person employed by a school to prepare and
present the theoretical and practical education of cosmetology to persons
who seek to practice cosmetology. They must maintain an active operator
or manager'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 -✓✓is a method of removing hair from the eyebrows, upper lip,
or other body parts by using cotton thread to pull hair from follicles. It does
not include the use of chemicals or any type of wax. It may include the use
of (1) over-the-counter astringents, gels, and powders; and (2) tweezers
and scissors incidental to threading.
• Advanced practice esthetician -✓✓is 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 the epidermal layer of the skin
, • Designated licensed salon manager -✓✓is 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 -✓✓is a cosmetologist who is a salon manager and who
has a school manager license. A school manager must maintain an active
salon manager's license.
• Designated school manager -✓✓is a school manager who is designated
by the school owner and registered with the board, who is responsible with
the school owner for school and instructor compliance
• Practitioner -✓✓is any person licensed in the practice of cosmetology,
esthiology, nail technology services, or eyelash technology services.
• Scope -✓✓For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this part
have the meanings given them, unless their context clearly requires
otherwise
• Active license -✓✓means a current license that has not expired and is not
retired.
• Advanced exfoliation -✓✓means a cosmetic procedure removing
epidermal skin cells through manual, mechanical, or chemical means.
• Advanced extraction -✓✓means an extraction performed using lancets or
needles.
• Advertising -✓✓means 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.
• Autoclave -✓✓means 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
