Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation
 
Board
Board for Barbers and Cosmetology
 
chapter
Barbering and Cosmetology Regulations [18 VAC 41 ‑ 20]
Action Lower Cosmetology Training to 1,000 Hours
Stage NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 10/12/2022
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10/12/22  5:19 pm
Commenter: Peter Eriks

Keeping Hours
 

      Excellence in effciancy regarding both mental and tactile education is ideal for an industry that opperates apart of everyone's daily lives. The current wake of understanding that the completion time for Cosmetology Licensure/Education is dropping puts into question the quality of disease control, physical safety (regarding implements, service providers physical ergonomic health, and the recepients safety), and mental knowledge (regarding how to comprehend pathogens, understanding the full body so that it can be operated on from a macro and micro scale, additionally the how and why to educate the public so that a higher standard of life can be acheived). The full understanding and application of the current material requires maxium time possible to master and take into hand the physical ramifications of removing the education time yielding the inability of people to fend for themselves as stylists, colorists, educators, and the like providing a down play in an already booming industry to suffer regardless of "quick fix" or "social media" based models. 

Truly, having educated many student and being in the grind of education with them after working abroad for the past several years immediatly demands that education be not only taught but fostered and administered to a motor skill as the industry provides the removal of physical apendiages and the prevention of diseases to spread. This mastery of information further allows a more uniformed and well educated group of industry workers to build up the economy and provide for the local community stretching onto the national level. Removing the how to's, and concrete facts of the body and science of chemistry in which the chemicals (not just hair dye, or bleach) are applied to another being protects a way of allowing this service to be for all. Removing any aspect will add to the detriment of those who will receive services. Having friends in other countries who do hair in an unlicensed portion of the world, it further shows the needs and quality already established so that all can reveive a suscent and quality service at the risk of damaging the mental or phsycial health of those in the community.

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