PROTECT THE BEAUTY INDUSTRY AGAINST DEREGULATION

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They are not banning the profession. They are making it easier to bypass.

Georgia · it already happened here

In 2024, Georgia passed SB 354 and carved shampooing, blow-dry styling, and consumer makeup application out of cosmetology licensure. Those services can now be performed for pay without a license when no other licensed practice is performed.

One exemption. One hour cut. One optional safety course. One weakened board. One unfunded school. One closed campus. One untrained operator at a time.

This is not just about beauty. It is about trained hands, clean tools, safe skin, funded schools, women's income, small business ownership, and the right to build a career without watching the standards get gutted underneath you.

Georgia Already Crossed the Line

In 2024, Georgia passed SB 354. It did not erase every beauty license. It did something quieter: it carved out the first pieces.

Shampooing.

Blow-dry styling.

Consumer makeup application.

Those services can now be performed for pay without a cosmetology license when no other licensed practice is performed. A facility that only offers those limited services is also exempt from facility licensing under the cosmetology and barbering chapter.

Haircutting, color, chemical services, nails, waxing, esthetics, eyelash extensions, and barbering are still licensed. For now.But the wall has been opened — and once lawmakers learn they can remove one piece of a profession and call it “opportunity,” they come back for another.

71,609 Georgians hold a cosmetology or barbering license — every one built on the standards SB 354 began carving apart, one service at a time.

Your License Was Not Erased. It Was Undercut.

That is the danger.

The state can still point to the license and say it exists, while carving pieces of the work away from the training behind it.

This Is How It Spreads

No one starts by saying, “Let's collapse professional standards.” They start with the service that sounds harmless.

Just shampoo. Just blowouts. Just makeup. Just braids. Just fewer hours. Just an optional sanitation course. Just abolish the board. Just let the market decide.

By the time people realize the pattern, the profession has already been chopped into pieces.

The Next Cut Always Sounds Reasonable

That is how these bills move.

They do not arrive wearing a warning label. They arrive with words like freedom, access, reform, and opportunity.

Then the industry is left to explain why training, sanitation, inspection, and accountability were never red tape in the first place.

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