Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 2085 - Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners
Chapter 12 - Schools and Student Rules-Barber and Cosmetology
Section 20 CSR 2085-12.050 - Curriculum Prescribed for Cosmetology Schools

Universal Citation: 20 MO Code of State Regs 2085-12.050

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024

PURPOSE: This rule establishes the curriculum requirements prescribed for cosmetology schools, to be consistent with Chapter 329, RSMo.

(1) School Requirements.

(A) Minimum Training Requirements.
1. The subjects and the minimum hours in each subject for the cosmetology programs in private schools and for the esthetician and manicuring programs in all schools are set forth in section 329.040, RSMo.

2. All public vocational-technical schools of cosmetology in Missouri shall provide a minimum of one thousand two hundred twenty (1,220) hours of training for cosmetology over a period of not less than six (6) months in the appropriate subjects. The subjects and the minimum hours in each are listed in Column A of paragraph (1)(A)3. of this section.

3. All programs of apprenticeship training in Missouri shall provide a minimum of three thousand (3,000) hours of training for cosmetology, a minimum of fifteen hundred (1,500) hours of training for esthetician, or a minimum of eight hundred (800) hours of training for manicuring. The subjects and the minimum hours in each are listed in Columns B, C, and D in this paragraph.

Subject Column A Column B Column C
7 Vo-Tech Cosmetologist Manicurist
Student Apprentice Apprentice
Shampooing of all kinds 40 80
Hair coloring, bleaches and rinses 130 260
Hair cutting and shaping 130 260
Permanent waving and relaxing 150 250
Hair setting, pin curls, fingerwaves, thermal curling g 230 450
Combouts and hair styling techniques 105 210
Scalp treatments and scalp diseases 30 60
Facials, eyebrows and arches 40 80
Manicuring hand and arm massage, and treatment of nails 110 220 440
Cosmetic chemistry 25 50
Salesmanship and establishment management 10 20 40
Sanitation and sterilization 30 60 40
Anatomy 20 40 20
State law 10 20 20
Study of the use and application of certain chemicals 80
Misc. lectures and test review 160 940 140
Total 1,220 3,000 800

Column D Esthetician
Subject Apprentice
Facials, cleansing, toner, massaging 240
Makeup application, all phases 200
Hair removal 60
Body treatments, aroma therapy, wraps 240
Reflexology 70
Cosmetic sciences, structure, condition, disorder 170
Cosmetic chemistry, products and ingredients 150
Cosmetology establishment management and salesmanship 110
Sanitation and sterilization, safety 90
State law 20
Misc. lectures and test review 150
Total 1,500

*Original authority: 329.025, RSMo 2005; and 329.040, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1959, 1979, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1997, 2001.

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