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 Final
Comment Period Ends 7/3/2024
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6/29/24  6:41 am
Commenter: Previous student

Disagreeing
 

In today’s society with social media, more and more people are doing things without licensure’s. They do it out of there house with no proper training or regulations. That’s problem one secondly so many people have issues going to a stylist that is somehow just unable to give satisfactory work and use any sort of technique. How do you think decreasing hours will affect that? This industry is looked up to and looked down upon because to many people experience and get scared by a bad haircut and unprofessional behavior.as a recent Graduate of a 1500 hour program. I can assure that I learned so much even reaching my 1,500 reaching that last 500 really solidified everything for me and I feel so much more prepared for salon life. Not only that but now you are flipping all the educators worlds upside down . Now they have to change the curriculum, classes and timing which equals less education and faster pace. Which not saying all but many beauty school attendees are often people who need a little more care when it comes to education and studying. On top of the fact that by changing state board all the people who have already graduated and have been taught how to approach this will now suffer for new circumstances and new test regulations and cause so much anxiety for people who already did there 1500. So please consider this a dangerous idea. 

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