Prohibited Services and Excluded Activities
Domain 2 tests what you must refuse, even when a client asks and you have the skill. A natural hair stylist license is not a general beauty license, and client demand does not enlarge the scope.
Excluded services
- Chemical restructuring: relaxers, permanent waves, chemical straightening, and texturizers.
- Hair color or bleaching where the law assigns those services to cosmetology.
- Shaving, beard and face work, and other barbering services.
- Nail, skin, waxing, laser, and injectable services.
- Diagnosis or treatment of scalp disease, prescription products, and invasive procedures.
Referral and delegation rules
Decline politely, explain the license boundary, and refer to the proper licensee or health professional. You may not delegate an excluded service to an unlicensed person, rent a chair for excluded services, or advertise excluded services as available. “Supervision” does not make an unlicensed act legal.
Worked example
A client requests a “texturizer” to loosen curls and eyebrow waxing before a braid appointment. Reasoning: a texturizer is a chemical restructuring service, and waxing is an esthetics service; neither is within the natural hair stylist scope. The stylist says no, explains the referral, and offers permitted styling. The stylist does not perform the texturizer “just this once” or ask an unlicensed friend to do it.
Traps
Believing a product’s “natural” label changes the scope; treating a chemical service as styling because it is applied with a comb; giving medical advice for traction alopecia; and advertising “all hair services.”