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KRS 317A.130

Sanitation requirements and prohibited practices -- Practices under supervision of physician

Effective: June 27, 2025 History: Amended 2025 Ky

(1) No licensee shall:

(a) Fail to provide the head rest of each chair with a relaundered towel or a sheet of clean paper for each person;

(b) Fail to place around the patron's neck a strip of cotton, towel, or neck strip so that the haircloth does not come in contact with the patron's skin;

(c) Use on one (1) patron a towel that has been used upon another patron, unless the towel has been relaundered;

(d) Use on any patron any razor, scissors, tweezers, comb, bowl, recirculating pipes, rubber disc, or part of a vibrator or other similar equipment or appliance that comes into contact with the head, face, hands, feet, or neck of a patron, until the equipment or appliance has been sterilized in accordance with methods of sterilization that are bacteriologically effective and approved by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; or (e) Use on any patron a liquid nail enhancement product containing monomeric methyl methacrylate, also known as dental acrylic monomer, for the purpose of creating artificial nail enhancements in the practice of cosmetology and nail technology.

(2) No esthetician practicing under this chapter shall perform any of the following unless practicing under the immediate supervision of a licensed physician:

(a) Botox or collagen injections;

(b) Laser treatments;

(c) Electrolysis;

(d) Tattoo;

(e) Permanent makeup;

(f) Microblading; or (g) Piercing.

Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.