- 1. The Board will issue master hair care specialist licenses to those licensed as cosmetologists by the South Carolina State Board of Cosmetology who submit a completed application with the application fee, proof of a current South Carolina cosmetologist license, and proof of a passing score on all portions of the practical examination prescribed by the Board along with the total number of years’ experience and training prescribed hereunder.
- 2. Any licensed cosmetologist with fewer than two (2) years’ experience must have three hundred seventy-five (375) hours of barber school training approved by the Board.
- 3. Any applicant failing any portion of the examination must complete fifty (50) hours of training in each portion failed in a Board approved barber school prior to reapplying and retaking the portion(s) of the examination failed.
HISTORY: Added by State Register Volume 15, Issue No. 4, eff April 26, 1991. Amended by State Register Volume 40, Issue No. 5, Doc. No. 4601, eff May 27, 2016; SCSR 46-5 Doc. No. 5073, eff May 27, 2022.