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

1. (1) School Requirements.

   1. (A) Minimum Training Requirements.

      1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 3. All programs of apprenticeship train-

ing 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 Column

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Subject Student Apprentice Apprentice Shampooing of all kinds Hair coloring, bleaches and rinses Hair cutting and shaping Permanent waving and relaxing Hair setting, pin curls, fingerwaves, thermal curling Combouts and hair styling techniques Scalp treatments and scalp diseases Facials, eyebrows and arches Manicuring hand and arm massage, and treatment of nails Cosmetic chemistry Salesmanship and establishment management Sanitation and sterilization Anatomy State law Study of the use and application of certain chemicals Misc. lectures and test review Total Column A B C Cosmetologist Manicurist

40 80

130 260 130 260

150 250

230 450

105 210

30 60

40 80

110 220 440 25 50

10 20 40

30 60 40 20 40 20 10 20 20

160 940 140 ____ ____ ___ 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.