“Esthetics” means the practices of:

1. 1. Beautifying, massaging, cleansing or stimulating the skin of the human body by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams, or any device for the care of the skin that is noninvasive and is not an esthetic medical device or otherwise prohibited by the Board;
2. 2. Applying cosmetics, eyelash extensions or eyelashes to any person, tinting eyelashes and eyebrows, eyelash perming and lightening hair on the body;
3. 3. Removing superfluous hair from the body of any person by the use of depilatories, waxing, tweezers or sugaring; and

4. 4. Performing any of the following procedures for esthetic purposes and not for the treatment of a medical, physical or mental ailment:

   1. (a) Extraction;
   2. (b) Hydrotherapy; or

   3. (c) Exfoliation which does not remove any skin below the stratum corneum, including, without limitation, by the use of manual exfoliation, microdermabrasion or dermaplaning,

      but does not include the branches of cosmetology of a cosmetologist, advanced esthetician, hair designer, shampoo technologist, hair braider, electrologist or nail technologist.

(Added to NRS by 2015, 587; A 2019, 1166; 2023, 876)