North Carolina regulations

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts requires cosmetology teacher trainees to complete 800 hours minimum (400 theory, 400 practical) with at least 150 hours of theory before classroom instruction under 21 NCAC 14T .0607.

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts requires 300 hours of natural hair care specialist training including infection control, blood exposure procedures, and competency evaluations on 16 specified services performed on live models.

North Carolina manicuring curriculum requires 300 hours of instruction including infection control, blood exposure procedures, and competency demonstrations in four core services plus 12 additional services on live models.

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts requires 600 hours of esthetics instruction including infection control, blood exposure procedures, and competency evaluations on five core services plus 16 additional services performed on live models.

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts requires 1200 hours of apprentice cosmetology instruction covering infection control, blood exposure procedures, and services equivalent to the full cosmetology curriculum.

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts requires cosmetology training programs to complete 1500 hours of instruction covering infection control, blood exposure procedures, and nine core services plus 35 additional services demonstrated on live models.

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts requires cosmetic art schools to submit Board-approved curricula and mandates students achieve 100 percent scores on blood exposure and infection control evaluations before performing services.

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts requires schools to submit student records within 15 days for esthetics, manicuring, and natural hair care programs and within 30 days for cosmetology programs.

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts requires manicuring schools to provide each student with specific equipment including bowls, brushes, trays, mannequin hands, kits, and artificial nail implements.

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts requires esthetics schools to provide students with specific equipment and supplies including drapes, spatulas, tweezers, makeup, and anatomical mannequins during instruction.

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts mandates cosmetology schools supply each student with specified equipment including mannequins, styling tools, and safety devices per 21 NCAC 14T .0401.

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts requires natural hair care styling schools to maintain specified equipment including styling stations, shampoo bowls, hydraulic chairs, and hooded dryers, with scaled requirements for schools enrolling more than…

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts requires manicuring schools to equip practice and clinic departments with mannequin tables, manicuring stations, pedicure chairs, hand-washing sinks, and waste containers; additional equipment scaling applies fo…

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts requires esthetics schools to maintain specified equipment including treatment tables, facial vaporizers, galvanic apparatus, and lamps, with scaled hand-washing sink requirements based on enrollment size.

North Carolina Board of Cosmetic Arts rule 21 NCAC 14T .0302 sets mandatory equipment specifications and spacing standards for cosmetology school practice and clinic departments, with scaled requirements for schools exceeding 40 enrolled students.