| License Description |
MASTER BARBER
A barber performs one or any combination of practices listed for payment, directly or indirectly, or without payment for the public generally: shaving or trimming beards, cutting or styling the hair, giving facial and scalp massages or treatments with oils, creams, lotions or other preparations either by hand or mechanical appliances; singeing, curling, shampooing, coloring, bleaching or straightening the hair, or applying hair tonics; cutting, fitting, measuring and forming head caps for wigs or hair pieces; hair weaving (excluding medical or surgical procedures); applying cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, powders, oils, clays or lotions to scalp, face, neck or other parts of the body; or manicuring and nail care. (A technician's license is available that permits a limited number of the above practices.)
REQUIREMENTS:
Be at least seventeen years of age, not owing any money to the barbering school, and satisfying education and examination requirements.
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Tenth-grade education or equivalent and satisfactory completion of fifteen hundred (1,500) hours in a registered barber school. 750 hours of approved training in a registered school of cosmetology can count towards the 1,500 required hours in the registered barber school.
RENEWAL REQUIREMENTS:
Renewal required every two years. |