2105.0105 SCOPE.
Subpart 1. Cosmetology. The practice of cosmetology includes the services defined under
Minnesota Statutes, section 155A.23, subdivision 3, and includes all services in subparts 2, 3, and
4. Cosmetology does not include advanced practice esthetic services in subpart 5. 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.
Subp. 2. Esthetics. The practice of esthiology is the cosmetic treatment of the stratum corneum
of the epidermal layer of the skin surface. Esthetic practice includes eyelash technology services
in subpart 4 and includes items A to F:
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.
Subp. 3. Nail technician services. The practice of nail technology is the cosmetic care of the
hands, feet, and nails. Nail technician services do not include waxing, eyelash or eyebrow
enhancements, or any other esthetician service. Nail technicians must not use any tool or equipment
to penetrate the skin.
Nail technology includes:
A. cleansing, removing polish, cutting, trimming, polishing, tinting, coloring, or manicuring
the fingernails or toenails;
B. attaching and removing acrylic, other artificial nails, or nail enhancements;
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