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Start from the business you want to run. Each topic page compares that trade's license names, training hours and regulators across the states we have researched from official board sources, and links the full state guides where they are live.
Topics with national comparisons
Hair salon
Cosmetology license names and hours across the United States, from 1,000 to 1,500 hours in the researched states.
Comparison liveBarbershop
Barber licenses, separate barber boards and merged regulators, compared state by state.
Comparison liveNail salon
Manicurist hours from 180 to 600 in the researched states, with the license name each state actually uses.
Comparison liveLash studio
Which states issue a dedicated lash license, which register lash artists, and which have no separate lash credential.
Comparison liveEsthetics
Esthetician hours from 220 to 1,000 in the researched states, license names and regulators compared.
Salon suite guides by state
The salon suite is an operating model rather than a licensed trade, so its national page works differently from the trade comparisons above: it maps the establishment license a suite runs on in each researched state instead of training hours. The full suite guides are published with each state cluster.
Salon suite licensing by state
Texas licenses a single suite directly, with its $70 Mini-Establishment license. Florida runs suites on the standard salon license. See how the researched states structure it.
Texas guide liveSalon suite in Texas
The TDLR Mini-Establishment license ($70) is the legal foundation of the Texas suite model, for renters and suite owners alike.
Florida guide liveSalon suite in Florida
Florida has no mini establishment license. Suites run on the standard salon license, and the structure differs for renters and operators.