MN Salon Manager License Exam
Questions with Correct Answers
Cosmetology - Answer-the practice of personal services, for compensation, for the
cosmetic care of the hair, nails, and skin. These services include cleaning, conditioning,
shaping, reinforcing, coloring and enhancing the body surface in the areas of the head,
scalp, face, arms, hands, legs, feet, and trunk of the body, except where these services
are performed by a barber.
cosmetologist - Answer-any person who, for compensation, performs the personal
services, as defined in subdivision 3
Eyelash Extensions - Answer-the application, removal, and trimming of threadlike
natural or synthetic fibers to an eyelash, and includes the cleansing of the eye area and
lashes. Eyelash extensions do not include color agents, straightening agents,
permanent wave solutions, bleaching agents, applications to the eyebrow, or any other
cosmetology service.
Eyelash technician - Answer-is any person who is not a cosmetologist, esthetician, or
advanced practice esthetician who, for compensation, performs the personal services
limited to eyelash extensions as defined in subdivision 4a only.
Esthetician - Answer-any person who, for compensation, performs personal services for
the cosmetic care of the skin only.
Individual license. - Answer-means a license described in section 155A.25, subdivision
1a, paragraph (b), clause (1).
Nail technician. - Answer-any person who, for compensation, performs personal
services for the cosmetic care of the hands, feet, and nails only.
Manager. - Answer-is any person who is a cosmetologist, esthetician, advanced
practice esthetician, nail technician practitioner, or eyelash technician practitioner, and
who has a manager license and provides any services under that license, as defined in
subdivision 3.
Mobile salon. - Answer-a salon that is operated in a mobile vehicle or mobile structure
for exclusive use to offer personal services, as defined in subdivision 3.
Salon. - Answer-an area, room, or rooms employed to offer personal services, as
defined in subdivision 3. "Salon" does not include the home of a customer but the board
may adopt health and infection control rules governing practice in the homes of
customers.
, School. - Answer-a place where any person operates and maintains a class to teach
cosmetology to the public for compensation. "School" does not include a place where
the only teaching of cosmetology is done by a licensed cosmetologist as part of a
community education program of less than ten hours duration, provided that the
program does not permit practice on persons other than students in the program, and
provided that the program is intended solely for the self-improvement of the students
and not as preparation for professional practice.
Instructor. - Answer-any person employed by a school to prepare and present the
theoretical and practical education of cosmetology to persons who seek to practice
cosmetology. An instructor must maintain an active operator or manager's license in the
area in which the instructor holds an instructor's license.
Person. - Answer-may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to
partnership and other unincorporated associations.
Threading. - Answer-a method of removing hair from the eyebrows, upper lip, or other
body parts by using cotton thread to pull hair from follicles. Threading does not include
the use of chemicals or any type of wax. Threading may include the use of (1) over-the-
counter astringents, gels, and powders; and (2) tweezers and scissors incidental to
threading.
Advanced practice esthetician. - Answer-a person who for compensation performs
personal services for the cosmetic care of the skin, including the use of mechanical or
electrical skin care apparatuses or appliances that are used on the epidermal layer of
the skin.
Designated licensed salon manager. - Answer-a manager designated by a salon owner
and registered with the board, who is responsible with the salon owner for salon and
practitioner compliance.
School manager - Answer-a cosmetologist who is a salon manager and who has a
school manager license. A school manager must maintain an active salon manager's
license.
Designated school manager. - Answer-school manager who is designated by the school
owner and registered with the board, who is responsible with the school owner for
school and instructor compliance.
Practitioner. - Answer-any person licensed in the practice of cosmetology, esthiology,
nail technology services, or eyelash technology services.
Scope. - Answer-For the purposes of this chapter, the terms defined in this part have
the meanings given them, unless their context clearly requires otherwise.
Active license. - Answer-a current license that has not expired and is not retired.
