Up to the Elbow
Do you know exactly which part of a client’s
hand or foot you’re allowed to work on? What about the use of metal
instruments to remove a callus? Here we take a look at what the accepted
practices are for each state.
Editor’s Note: Information taken verbatim from each State's, State
Board rules.
State: Alabama
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: The practice of manicuring,
pedicuring, nail care or adding wraps, tips, artificial or sculptured extensions
to the nails of any person or cutting, trimming, polishing, coloring, tinting,
cleansing or manicuring the nails of any person or massaging, cleansing,
treating, or beautifying the hands or feet of any person.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Alaska
License required: Manicurist, (Advanced Manicurist as of Sept. 1,
2001)
Area licensed to work on: Cut, trim, polish, color, tint, or
cleanse a natural or artificial nail; affix material by artificial means to a
natural nail for the addition to or extension of the natural nail; cleanse,
treat, or beautify the hands or feet for cosmetic purposes; or otherwise treat
the nails of the hand or foot.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Arizona
License required: Nail Technician
Area licensed to work on: cutting, trimming, polishing,
coloring, tinting, cleansing or otherwise treating a person’s nails; applying
artificial nails; massaging and cleansing a person’s hands, arms, legs, and
feet.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Arkansas
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cutting, trimming, polishing,
coloring, tinting, cleansing, filing, buffing, pushing, extending, protecting,
wrapping, covering, building, or beautifying the nails or performing any other
similar work upon the nails of any person by any means, including the softening
of the arms, hands, feet or ankles of any person by use of hands, mechanical or
electrical apparatus or appliances, cosmetic or chemical preparations,
antiseptics, lotions, or creams or by massaging, cleansing, manipulating or
stimulating the arms, hands, feet or ankles of any person.
Cutting: No provisions
State: California
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cutting, trimming, polishing,
tinting, coloring, cleansing, or manicuring the nails of any person. Massaging,
cleansing, treating, or beautifying the hands or feet of any person.
Cutting: Prohibits the use (or even the presence within an
establishment) of any razor-edged or other device or tool designed to remove
calluses. Additionally, when providing a manicure or pedicure, no metal
instrument shall be used except those necessary for the cutting, trimming,
manicuring, or pedicuring of nails or cuticles.
State: Colorado
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Filing, buffing, polishing,
cleansing, extending, protecting, wrapping, covering, building, pushing, or
trimming of nails including the softening of the hands, arms, ankles, or feet of
any person by use of hands, mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances,
cosmetic or chemical preparations, antiseptics, lotions, or creams or by
massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulation, or exercising the arms, hands,
feet, or ankles of any person.
Cutting: Nippers may be used to trim cuticles and pumice for
calluses; does not allow for credo blades to remove calluses.
State: Connecticut
License required: Nail Technician (as of Oct. 2000)
Area licensed to work on: Cuts, shapes, polishes or enhances
the appearance of the nails of the hands or feet; the application and removal of
sculptured or artificial nails.
Cutting: No cutting nail beds, corns, and calluses, or other
medical treatment involving the foot or ankle.
State: Delaware
License required: Nail Technician
Area licensed to work on: Manicuring, pedicuring or sculpting
nails, including acrylic nails, of any person.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Florida
License required: Nail Specialists
Area licensed to work on: Cutting, polishing, tinting,
coloring, cleansing, adding, or extending of the nails, and massaging of the
hands; affixing of artificial nails, except those nails which may be applied
solely by use of a simple adhesive. Shaping, polishing, tinting, or cleansing of
the feet, and massaging or beautifying of the feet.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Georgia
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Trims, files, shapes, decorates,
applies sculptured or otherwise artificial nails, or in any way cares for the
nails of another person.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Hawaii
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cutting, trimming, polishing,
coloring, cleansing, or otherwise treating a person’s fingernails and toenails;
applying artificial fingernails and toenails; and massaging and cleansing a
person’s hands, arms, legs, and feet.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Idaho
License required: Nail Technician
Area licensed to work on: Manicuring, pedicuring the nails, and
the application of all forms of artificial nails; massage of the hands and feet.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Illinois
License required: Nail Technician
Area licensed to work on: Manicures, pedicures, or decorates
nails, applies sculptured or otherwise artificial nails by hand or with
mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances, or in any way cares for the
nails of another person for other than therapeutic purposes.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Indiana
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cleansing, dressing, polishing,
sculpting, tipping, or wrapping the nails of a person.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Iowa
License required: Manicurist (natural nails), Nail Technician
Area licensed to work on: Applying sculptured nails, nail
extensions, wraps, overlays, nail art, or any other nail technique to the
fingernails and toenails of a person; massaging the hands, arms, ankles, and
feet of a person; removing superfluous hair from hands, arms, feet, or legs of a
person by the use of wax or a tweezer.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Kansas
License required: Manicurist, Esthetician
Area licensed to work on: Manicuring, pedicuring or sculpturing
nails or performing any other beautifying process on any person.
Cutting: Prohibited in the working area of an establishment or
school: devices, tools, or instruments to remove calluses or skin blemishes.
State: Kentucky
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cutting, trimming, polishing,
coloring, cleansing, applying artificial nails, or massaging, cleaning,
treating, or beautifying the hands and feet of any human.
Cutting: Trimming and cutting of calluses is not permitted.
State: Louisiana
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Trims, files, decorates, shapes, or
in any way cares for the nails of another person.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Maine
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Applying the hands with or without
cosmetic preparations, lotions, creams, or antiseptics to cut, trim, shape,
pedicure, polish, color, tint or apply artificial nails to the nails of any
person or to massage, cleanse or beautify the hands or feet of any person.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Maryland
License required: Nail Technician
Area licensed to work on: Massage of the hands and feet;
manicuring and pedicuring services; applying and maintaining artificial nail
enhancement products.
Cutting: Prohibited from removing corns, calluses, or other
growths of the skin, such as warts, by cutting.
State: Massachusetts
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cutting, trimming, polishing,
tinting, coloring or cleansing the nails of any person and application of
artificial nail products.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Michigan
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cleansing, filing, shaping, buffing,
polishing, or beautifying of the nails of the hands or feet, and the cleansing,
massaging, stimulating, exercising, or beautifying the skin of the hands, arms,
and feet, manually or with the use of tools, appliances, or cosmetic
preparations, including the repair of nails, or the creation or decoration of
artificial nails.
Cutting: Prohibited to use a blade in the practice of pedicuring.
State: Minnesota
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cosmetic care of the body surface in
the areas of the arms, hands, legs, and feet.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Mississippi
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cutting, trimming, polishing,
coloring, tinting, cleansing or otherwise treating a person’s nails; applying
artificial nails; massaging or cleaning a person’s hands, arms, legs, or feet.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Missouri
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cutting, trimming, polishing,
coloring, tinting, cleaning or otherwise beautifying a person’s fingernails,
applying artificial fingernails, massaging, cleaning a person’s hands and arms;
pedicuring, which includes, cutting, trimming, polishing, coloring, cleaning,
tinting, or otherwise beautifying a person’s toenails, applying artificial
toenails, massaging and cleaning a person’s legs and feet.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Montana
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Nail care of the hands and feet and
the application and maintenance of artificial nails, not to go beyond the wrist.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Nebraska
License required: Nail Technician
Area licensed to work on: Attaching, applying, fitting,
shaping, or adjusting artificial nails using acrylic, resin, fabric, or gel
application systems, sanitizing of the nail bed by brushing on or spraying
material in preparation for attaching, fitting, shaping, or adjusting artificial
nails, cutting, filing, buffing, shaping, trimming, polishing, coloring,
tinting, cleansing, reshaping, or other cosmetic acts on the nails of a person,
the ability to detect infection, fungus, or nail disorders that contraindicate
the application of artificial nails and cleansing, stimulating, manipulating,
exercising, or similar acts on the hands or feet of any person.
Cutting: Nail technology does not include cutting nail beds,
corns, or calluses or medical treatment involving the feet, hands, or nails.
State: Nevada
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Care of another’s fingernails or
toenails, beautification of another’s nails, extension of another’s nails,
massaging of another’s hands, forearms, feet or lower legs.
Cutting: Use of a credo blade is allowed for the removal of dead
skin only.
State: New Hampshire
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cut, trim, polish, tint, color or
cleanse the nails of any person.
Cutting: No provisions
State: New Jersey
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Manicure the fingernails, pedicure
the toenails, nail sculpt, and remove superfluous hair from the face, neck,
arms, legs or abdomen by the use of delipatories, waxing or tweezing.
Cutting: Prohibit the use of a credo blade, skin scraper, or other
comparable instrument, which might be used on calluses.
State: New Mexico
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: A person who performs work on the
nails of a person and applies nail extensions or products to the nails for the
purpose of strengthening or preserving the health and beauty of the hands or
feet.
Cutting: Shall not treat an obviously infected ingrown toenail or
use any technique involving mechanical penetration of the skin beneath a callus
or corn.
State: New York
License required: Nail Specialty
Area licensed to work on: Cut, shape or enhance the appearance
of the nails of the hands or feet including the application and removal of
sculptured or artificial nails.
Cutting: Chamois buffers, pumice stones, and credo knives are
prohibited.
State: North Carolina
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: The care and treatment of the
fingernails, toenails, cuticles on fingernails and toenails, and the hands and
feet, including the decoration of the fingernails and the application of nail
extensions and artificial nails.
Cutting: No provisions
State: North Dakota
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cleansing, cutting, shaping,
beautifying, or massaging of the hands, feet, or nails of any person.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Ohio
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Manicuring of the nails of any person
or the application of artificial or sculptured nails, or both.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Oklahoma
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Oklahoma statutes are not very clear
about the areas of the body a manicurist may perform services on. The manicurist
may work from the knees and elbows down.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Oregon
License required: Nail Technician
Area licensed to work on: Services performed on the nails of
the hands and feet; the application and removal of artificial nails; the
application of mini-art work, etching or imprinting on nails.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Pennsylvania
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Work or maintenance done to the nails
or cuticles of the hands or the feet for cosmetic purposes including, and
limited to, filing, polishing, coating, nipping, shaping, sculpturing, and
applying artificial nail tips and other extensions.
Cutting: Does not include the removal of corns and calluses, but
does include the removal of thin, dry skin for cosmetic purposes with a pumice
stone or similar nonmetal instrument.
State: Rhode Island
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cutting, trimming, polishing,
tinting, coloring or cleansing the nails of any person.
Cutting: The use of a razor blade callus shaver is prohibited.
State: South Carolina
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Manicuring or pedicuring the nails or
similar work.
Cutting: No provisions
State: South Dakota
License required: Nail Technician
Area licensed to work on: Pedicure, manicure, artificial nails,
massage of the hands, arms, feet, and lower legs.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Tennessee
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Manicuring or pedicuring the nails of
any person, or performing nail artistry.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Texas
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cutting, trimming, polishing,
tinting, coloring, cleansing, or manicuring a person’s nails or attaching false
nails, or massaging, cleansing, treating, or beautifying a person’s hands or
feet.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Utah
License required: None
Area licensed to work on: No regulations
Cutting: No provisions
State: Vermont
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: The non-medical treatment of a
person’s fingernails or toenails or the skin in the vicinity of the nails, and
includes the use of cosmetic preparations or appliances.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Virginia
License required: Nail Technician
Area licensed to work on: Manicures or pedicures natural nails
or performs artificial nail services.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Washington
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cleaning, shaping, or polishing of
the nails of the hands or feet, and the application and removal of artificial
nails.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Washington, D.C.
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Filing, shaping, trimming, painting,
cleaning, nourishing, and stimulating the natural fingernail or toenail; the
application of chemical treatments to the fingernail or toenail, including, but
not limited to, the application of false fingernails, acrylic sculptured nails,
nail tips, and nail wrapping; and massage of the finger, hands, arm below the
elbow, toe, foot, or leg below the knee.
Cutting: The practice of manicuring shall not include the cutting
of nailbed, corns, or calluses, or other medical treatments involving the foot
or ankle of any individual.
State: West Virginia
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: The care, preservation, and
beautification of the hands, feet, and nails only.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Wisconsin
License required: Manicurist
Area licensed to work on: Cleansing, cutting, shaping,
beautifying or massaging limited to the hands, feet, or nails of the human body.
Cutting: No provisions
State: Wyoming
License required: Manicurist/Nail Technician
Area licensed to work on: Services performed for others for the
improvement and beautification of the nails.
Cutting: No provisions
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