§ 37:563 — Definitions

§563. Definitions
As used in this Chapter, the following words have the following meanings:
(1) "Beauty shop" or "salon" means any premises upon or within which cosmetology
is practiced for a fee. These terms shall not include the premises wherein any of the persons
exempted in R.S. 37:581 practice or do business.
(2) "Blow dry technician" means an individual who provides blow drying hair
services.
(3) "Blow drying hair services" means to provide to an individual for compensation
the services of beautifying, cleaning, arranging, curling, dressing, blow drying, or performing
any other similar procedure intended to beautify, clean, or arrange the hair.
(4) "Board" means the Louisiana State Board of Cosmetology. The board shall
constitute a professional association within the meaning of Article VII, Section 9 of the
Constitution of Louisiana.
(5) "Cosmetologist" means any person, who is not exempted from the provisions of
this Chapter pursuant to R.S. 37:581, who engages in the practice of cosmetology for
compensation, directly or indirectly, including tips.
(6)(a) "Cosmetology" means the practice of using one's hands, mechanical or
electrical apparatuses, or appliances or using cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, soaps,
detergents, tonics, lotions, or creams in any one or any combination of the practices of
esthetics, hair dressing, and manicuring for compensation, direct or indirect, including tips.
(b) "Cosmetology" does not include ear piercing as provided for in R.S.
37:581(B)(6).
(7) "Esthetician" means a person who practices esthetics.
(8) "Esthetics" means engaging in any one or a combination of the following
practices: massaging the face or neck of a person, dyeing or trimming eyebrows, applying
natural or artificial enhancements to eyelashes, hair removal by cosmetic preparations,
threading, waxing, or other similar means, stimulating, cleansing, or beautifying the face,
neck, arms, bust, upper body, legs, or feet of a person by any method with the aid of the
hands or of any mechanical or electrical apparatus, including micro-dermabrasion,
epidermabrasion, or particle exfoliation using equipment and methodology approved by the
board or by the use of a cosmetic preparation; however, esthetics shall not include the
diagnosis, treatment, or therapy of any dermatological condition, or the process of removing
hair known as "electrolysis".
(9) "Hairdressing" means massaging, cleansing, washing, stimulating, manipulating,
exercising, beautifying, or doing similar work upon the scalp of any person, including
arranging, singeing, cutting or shaping, curling or waving, cleansing, shampooing, styling,
bleaching, coloring, or similar work upon the hair of another person.
(10) "Manager" means a person responsible for supervising any facility required to
be licensed as a beauty shop or salon where one or more person offers cosmetology services
or engages in the practice of cosmetology.
(11) "Manicuring" means trimming, filing, decorating, shaping, sculpting, or in any
way caring for the nails and skin of another person's hands or feet together with massaging
the hands, arms, legs, and feet including pedicuring; however, manicuring shall not include
the use of blades or graters for callous or skin removal.
(12) "Manicurist" means a person who practices manicuring.
(13) "Mobile salon" means a self-contained facility, where cosmetology is practiced
for a fee, that may be moved, towed, or transported from one location to another.
(14) "Satellite classroom" means a separate classroom location used as supplemental
training space located under the same roof of the main school building or on the same
campus as the administrative center and within at least three hundred feet of the main school
building for the purpose of training an overflow of students who cannot be accommodated
at the main school.
(15) "School" means any premises wherein cosmetology is taught.
(16) "Student" means a person registered in a school authorized by the board to teach
cosmetology.
(17) "Teacher" or "instructor" means a person who teaches cosmetology for direct
or indirect compensation, within a school.

Legislative History

Acts 2001, No. 907, §2, eff. June 26, 2001; Acts 2010, No. 728, §1; Acts 2016, No. 271, §1; Acts 2016, No. 611, §1; Acts 2022, No. 196, §1.