Curriculum Prescribed for Cosmetology Schools

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. Column A Column B Column C Vo-Tech cosmetologist Manicurist Subject 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 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 AUTHORITY: sections 329.025.1 and 329.040, RSMo Supp. 2006.* Original rule filed Aug. 1, 2007, effective Feb. 29, 2008. *Original authority: 329.025, RSMo 2005; and 329.040, RSMo 1939, amended 1945, 1959, 1979, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1995, 1997, 2001.