Cosmetology Instructor

ArkansasActive
Exam
State exam
Education
Specific course
Experience
Experience
Background check
Not reported

Cosmetology Instructors provide instructions to students in the basic theory of cosmetology and its related branches. In addition, they provide students with the practical knowledge required in the fundamentals of sanitation, hygiene, sales, professional ethics, basic science, and safety precautions. The courses an instructor is eligible to teach are dependent upon which license to practice the instructor holds.The instructor training curriculum is designed as a course to extend over a period of not less than four (4) months and not less than six-hundred (600) hours of training. (1) Be licensed as a cosmetologist, manicurist, aesthetician or electrologist in the State of Arkansas, Must be at least 21 years of age. 2. Must have completed four years of high school or its equivalent. 3. Must be licensed in the field you wish to teach as a Cosmetologist, Manicurist, Esthetician or Electrologist. 4. Must be a graduate of a 600-hour training course from an approved school of cosmetology. 5. Electrologist Instructor applicants must have three years of practical experience as an electrologist in the state of Arkansas within the past five years. Must take a practical eximantion administered by a Licensed school of Cosmetology in Arkansas(Not to exceed $65.00) and a national written examination ($60.00)

Requirements reported by the state

Licence type
Secondary license (other license is prerequisite)
Exam
State exam required
Education
Specific course required
Continuing education
Continuing education required
Certification
No mention of certification
Experience
Experience
Military and veterans
A temporary license available to military and spouses until formal license approval

Issuing body

Department
Arkansas Department of Health
Division
Cosmetology and Massage Therapy Section
Board
Board of Health
Address
4815 West Markham Street, Slot 8 Little Rock, AR 72205
Last updated
June 28, 2022

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Source and verification

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