Terms Used In Michigan Laws 339.1203a

  • Cosmetologist: means an individual who performs or offers to perform 1 or more cosmetology services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Cosmetology: means performing 1 or more cosmetology services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Cosmetology establishment: means a place of business at which 1 or more cosmetology services are offered or provided. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Cosmetology services: means any of the following:
  (i) Hair care services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Electrologist: means an individual who performs or offers to perform electrology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Electrology: means the permanent removal of hair from the body of an individual by the use of electricity. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Esthetician: means an individual who performs or offers to perform skin care services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Hair care services: means arranging, cutting, dressing, curling, waving, cleansing, singeing, bleaching, coloring, tinting, trimming, styling, relaxing, perming, straightening, or similar work upon the hair of the head or a wig that an individual is wearing. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Manicuring services: means the cleansing, filing, shaping, buffing, polishing, or beautifying of the nails of the hands or feet, and the cleansing, massaging, stimulating, exercising, or beautifying of the skin of the hands, arms, and feet, manually or with the use of tools, appliances, or cosmetic preparations, including the repair of nails, or the creation or decoration of artificial nails. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Manicurist: means an individual who performs or offers to perform manicuring services. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Natural hair cultivation: means techniques that result in tension on hair strands such as twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking, or braiding of the hair by hand, if that work does not include the application of dyes, reactive chemicals, or other preparations to alter the color or to straighten, curl, or alter the structure of the hair. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Natural hair culturist: means an individual who is engaged in natural hair cultivation but does not include an individual who is engaged in natural hair cultivation if that activity is performed as part of the practice of a recognized religion. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • premises: means 1 of the following, as applicable:
  •   (i) For a mobile salon described in subdivision (o)(i), the vehicle or other device and the equipment installed in the vehicle or device. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • School of cosmetology: means a school that teaches 1 or more cosmetology services at a premises designated in the license application. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Skin care services: includes the following services or combination of services:
  •   (i) Beautifying the skin of the body of an individual by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams, including body wrapping. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  • Student: means an individual who is engaged in learning cosmetology or 1 or more cosmetology services in a school of cosmetology. See Michigan Laws 339.1201
  •   (1) Subject to subsection (5), an individual shall not perform any form of cosmetology services, with or without compensation, on any individual other than a member of his or her immediate family without a license under this article. However, this article does not apply to an individual, person, or premises that is licensed under article 11 while performing the services of a barber.
      (2) An individual who is licensed as a cosmetologist under this article may perform hair care services, skin care services, natural hair cultivation, and manicuring services as part of the practice of cosmetology, but shall not perform electrology unless he or she is licensed as an electrologist.
      (3) The department may license an individual to perform manicuring services, natural hair cultivation, or skin care services in accordance with his or her training. An individual who is licensed as a manicurist, natural hair culturist, or esthetician shall only perform that particular service and shall not perform any other cosmetology service unless he or she is licensed for that service. An individual who is licensed as a manicurist, natural hair culturist, or esthetician shall not perform electrology unless he or she is licensed as an electrologist.
      (4) An individual who is licensed as an electrologist shall only perform electrology services and shall not perform any other cosmetology service unless he or she is separately licensed to perform those services.
      (5) An individual who is a cosmetology student may perform shampoo services in a cosmetology establishment on members of the public without a license under this article if all of the following are met at the time the individual performs the shampooing services:
      (a) Except as provided in subsection (6), he or she is enrolled in a school of cosmetology.
      (b) He or she has completed at least the 350 hours of instruction in the school’s general cosmetology curriculum that is required under section 1205(5)(c). The instruction must include at least the minimum number of practical applications established by the director by rule.
      (c) The cosmetology establishment that is employing the individual to perform shampoo services has received written verification from the school of cosmetology the individual attends, in the form of a letter on the school’s letterhead, dated and signed by the director or manager of that school, that states all of the following:
      (i) The individual’s full name.
      (ii) That the individual is currently enrolled in the school.
      (iii) That the individual meets the requirements described in subdivision (b).
      (iv) His or her expected graduation date.
      (6) An individual who is performing shampooing services under subsection (5) without a license under this article may continue to perform those services at the cosmetology establishment without a license for a period of 30 days after the date the individual is scheduled to graduate from the school of cosmetology.
      (7) A cosmetology establishment that employs a cosmetology student to perform shampoo services under subsection (5) must do all of the following:
      (a) Maintain records of the student’s employment and keep the records on file for at least 3 years after the end of the employment relationship. The records must include the verification letter described in subsection (5)(c).
      (b) Allow the department access to the records described in subdivision (a).
      (c) Ensure that the student does not perform cosmetology services other than shampoo services while employed by the establishment.
      (d) Ensure that a licensed cosmetologist is present in the establishment when the student is performing shampoo services.
      (8) A school of cosmetology that provides a verification letter described in subsection (5)(c) to a cosmetology establishment must retain a copy of the letter in the student’s school record for at least 3 years after the student’s expected graduation date.
      (9) As used in this section, “shampoo services” means preparing a customer for a shampoo, or shampooing or blow-drying a customer, for a licensed cosmetologist.