2023 Tennessee Code › Title 62 - PROFESSIONS, BUSINESSES AND TRADES (§§ 62-1-101 — 62-76-203) › Chapter 4 - TENNESSEE COSMETOLOGY ACT OF 1986 (§§ 62-4-101 — 62-4-217) › Part 1 - TENNESSEE COSMETOLOGY ACT OF 1986 (§§ 62-4-101 — 62-4-139) › Section 62-4-102

(a)
As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)
"Aesthetics" means any of the following practices:
(A)
Massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, beautifying or similar work with hands or mechanical or electrical apparatus or by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams;
(B)
Placing or applying artificial eyelashes; or
(C)
Giving facials, applying makeup, giving skin care or removing superfluous hair by tweezing, depilatories or waxing;
(2)
"Board" means the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners created by §
62-4-103
;
(3)
"Cosmetology" means any of the following practices:
(A)
Arranging, dressing, curling, waving, cleansing, cutting, singeing, bleaching, coloring or similar work on the hair of any person by any means;
(B)
Caring and servicing of wigs and hair pieces;
(C)
Manicuring;
(D)
Massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, beautifying or similar work upon the hands, arms, face, neck or feet with hands or by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams;
(E)
Placing or applying artificial eyelashes;
(F)
Giving facials, applying makeup, giving skin care or removing superfluous hair by tweezing, depilatories or waxing;
(G)
Providing a necessary service that is preparatory or ancillary to a service pursuant to this subdivision (a)(3);
(H)
Treating a person's mustache or beard by arranging, beautifying, coloring, processing, styling, trimming, or shaving with a safety razor;
(I)
Shampooing;
(J)
Natural hair styling; or
(K)
Providing eyelash services;
(4)
"Cosmetology shop" means any place of business where any person engages or offers to engage in any practice of cosmetology for a fee or other form of compensation, but does not include a manicure shop, skin care shop, natural hair styling shop, or eyelash services shop;
(5)
"Designated manager" means a person licensed under this part or chapter 3 of this title in at least one (1) discipline that a shop is licensed to offer, and who serves in a supervisory or managerial capacity of the shop in the absence of the manager;
(6)
"Dual shop" means any shop licensed by the board where services are performed or offered to be performed in more than one (1) field of cosmetology, including aesthetics, natural hair styling, manicuring, and eyelash services, or in both cosmetology, or a field of cosmetology, and barbering. A dual shop does not include a shop licensed solely as a cosmetology shop or a single specialty thereof, or as a barber shop;
(7)
"Eyelash services" means applying and removing a semi-permanent, thread-like, natural or synthetic single fiber to an eyelash, including cleansing of the eye area and lashes prior to applying and after removing extensions;
(8)
"Eyelash services shop" means a place of business where a person licensed pursuant to this part performs or offers to perform only eyelash services for a fee or other form of compensation;
(9)
"Hair braiding" means techniques that result in tension on hair strands, such as twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking, or braiding of the hair, by hand or mechanical appliances for compensation, without cutting, coloring, relaxing, removing, chemically treating, or using other preparations to straighten, curl, or alter the structure of the hair;
(10)
"Hair wrapping" means the wrapping of manufactured materials around a strand or strands of human hair for compensation, without cutting, coloring, permanent waving, relaxing, removing, weaving, chemically treating, braiding, using hair extensions or performing any other service otherwise covered by this part;
(11)
"Instructor trainee" means any person who holds a valid cosmetologist's, manicurist's, aesthetician's or natural hair stylist's license issued by the board who is engaged in a board-approved course in instructor training of at least three hundred (300) hours to be completed within a period of six (6) months, which course includes practice teaching in a school under the personal supervision of a licensed instructor;
(12)
"Junior instructor" means any person who holds a valid cosmetologist's, manicurist's, aesthetician's or natural hair stylist's license issued by the board who is engaged in a course of training in practice teaching in a school under the personal supervision of a licensed instructor for a period of time not to exceed three (3) years;
(13)
"Manager" means a person licensed under this part or chapter 3 of this title in at least one (1) discipline that a shop is licensed to offer, who serves in a supervisory or managerial capacity in the shop, and whose information is filed with the board;
(14)
"Managing aesthetician" means a person licensed to practice aesthetics who is designated by the owner of a skin care shop to be responsible for supervising the operation of the shop and its employees;
(15)
"Managing cosmetologist" means a licensed cosmetologist who is designated by the owner of a cosmetology shop to be responsible for supervising the operation of the shop and its employees;
(16)
"Managing manicurist" means a person licensed to practice manicuring who is designated by the owner of a manicure shop to be responsible for supervising the operation of the shop and its employees;
(17)
"Manicure shop" means any place of business where any person performs or offers to perform only manicuring services for a fee or other form of compensation;
(18)
"Manicuring" means manicuring or pedicuring the nails of any person or performing nail artistry;
(19)
"Mobile shop" means any self-contained, self-supporting, enclosed motor vehicle that may be used as a barber shop, cosmetology shop, dual shop, manicure shop, skin care shop, eyelash services shop, or other category of shop licensed by the board;
(20)
"Natural hair styling" means techniques that result in tension on hair strands such as twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking or braiding of the hair by hand or mechanical appliances, which 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. The techniques include providing or offering to the general public for compensation any of the following services solely for development or improvement of physical qualities of the natural hair structure:
(A)
Intertwining in a systematic motion to create patterns in a three-dimensional form;
(B)
Inversion or outversion flat against the scalp along the part of a straight or curved row; or
(C)
Extension with natural or synthetic fibers;
(21)
"Natural hair styling shop" means a place of business where a person licensed pursuant to this part performs or offers to perform only natural hair styling for a fee or other form of compensation;
(22)
"Natural hair stylist" means a person licensed to practice natural hair styling;
(23)
"Safety razor" means a razor that is fitted with a guard close to the cutting edge of the razor that is intended to:
(A)
Prevent the razor from cutting too deeply; and
(B)
Reduce the risk and incidence of accidental cuts;
(24)
"School" means a school of cosmetology;
(25)
"Shampooing" means any brushing, combing, shampooing, rinsing or conditioning upon the hair and scalp;
(26)
"Shop" means a cosmetology shop, manicure shop, skin care shop, natural hair styling shop, or eyelash services shop;
(27)
"Skin care shop" means any place of business where any person performs or offers to perform exclusively aesthetics services for a fee or other form of compensation; and
(28)
"Student" means any person who is engaged in learning, performing or assisting in any of the practices of cosmetology under the immediate supervision of an instructor of cosmetology; however, for the purposes of this part, neither instructor trainees nor junior instructors shall be considered as students.
(b)
The practice of aesthetics or the practice of cosmetology does not include any treatment or attempt to treat any abnormality or disease-related condition of the skin, skin disease process or aging process of the skin.
Amended by 2024 Tenn. Acts, ch. 1060,s 6, eff. 7/1/2024.
Amended by 2024 Tenn. Acts, ch. 1060,s 5, eff. 7/1/2024.
Amended by 2024 Tenn. Acts, ch. 1060,s 4, eff. 7/1/2024.
Amended by 2024 Tenn. Acts, ch. 1060,s 3, eff. 7/1/2024.
Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 214, s 6, eff. 7/1/2023.
Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 214, s 5, eff. 7/1/2023.
Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 214, s 4, eff. 7/1/2023.
Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 214, s 3, eff. 7/1/2023.
Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 214, s 2, eff. 7/1/2023.
Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 214, s 1, eff. 7/1/2023.
Amended by 2019 Tenn. Acts, ch. 207, s 1, eff. 7/1/2019.
Amended by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 991, Secs.s 6, s 8eff. 7/1/2016.
Amended by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 991, s 9, s 10 eff. 7/1/2016.
Amended by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 983, s 3, eff. 4/27/2016.
Amended by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 838, s 5, s 6 eff. 7/1/2016.
Amended by 2015 Tenn. Acts, ch. 402, s 14, eff. 7/1/2015.
Amended by 2015 Tenn. Acts, ch. 402, s 13, eff. 7/1/2015.
Acts 1986, ch. 817, § 3; 1987, ch. 112, §§ 1, 2; 1988, ch. 902, §1; 1989, ch. 93, §§1-3; 1996, ch. 897, §§ 1, 2, 19; 2002, ch. 804, §1; 2007 , ch. 485, §§ 1, 2.