<p dir="ltr">Messing with hair is a public health issue. Add in perms, dyes and straighteners and now there's an immediate chemical handling safety issue. So yeah, cosmetology training is a good thing.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 2, 2013 7:43 PM, "Scott Plante" <<a href="mailto:splante@insightsys.com">splante@insightsys.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yeah, in Texas for example, to get an individual license to wash someones hair you need to complete "<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">150 hours of instruction completed in not less than four weeks from date of enrollment" and for hair braiding it's 35 hours of training. Plus, of course, pay whatever fees and go through however different offices. I don't know if Texas is the worst or anything--I think they generally have a good reputation relating to red tape. They just came up near the top in my Google search.</span><br>
<br><div><a href="http://www.license.state.tx.us/cosmet/cosmetrules.htm#r8320" target="_blank">http://www.license.state.tx.us/cosmet/cosmetrules.htm#r8320</a></div><div><br></div><div>It was floating around in the back of my head--I think I might have seen something about this case last year:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.ij.org/utah-hairbraiding-release-8-9-2012" target="_blank">http://www.ij.org/utah-hairbraiding-release-8-9-2012</a></div><div>Utah required 2000 hours of training to braid someones hair!?! Court said nope, sorry Utah.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Scott</div><div><br><hr style="font-size:12pt"><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal"><b>From: </b>"Michael B. Trausch" <<a href="mailto:mbt@naunetcorp.com" target="_blank">mbt@naunetcorp.com</a>><br>
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<div>On 04/02/2013 02:42 PM, Scott Plante
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<blockquote>The USDA, FDA, or some other state or federal
government agency may disagree with your statement about not
needing a license to sell chickens. After all, in a lot of places
you need a license just to profit from <i>washing or braiding
someones hair!</i> </blockquote>
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You mean, aside from the normal, routine business licenses and so
forth?<br>
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