(a) No person may be admitted to an examination or licensed as an esthetician/manicurist unless he or she holds a license as an esthetician and has successfully completed at least 650 hours in nail technology in a school licensed or registered under this chapter.
(b) Any applicant who satisfies the qualifications in subsection (a), pays any applicable examination fee, successfully completes the examination, and pays the license fee shall be issued an esthetician/manicurist license.