Beauty Treatments Could be Harder to Come by in Minnesota

Those changes would make the rules tougher for salon workers to give us massages, body piercings, and eyelash extensions.

“You’re really separating, lash by lash, and then adding another lash on top of that.”

It’s been said there’s no beauty without suffering.

When Trista Chapman’s client came in – her eyelashes weren’t her strong suit.

“I told you not to show anybody! I said, take a picture and show me. I look like a total creeper,” said her client.

Chapman and her workers will spend an hour or more crouched over their clients to make their eyelash extensions look perfect.

But changes to Minnesota law may mean her years of experience aren’t enough.

Now – they’ll have to take classes and get licensed.

“Yeah, it is a year. Nights and weekends,” said Chapman.

This is one of only a couple places in town that offer the classes, which take a year. And some places are worried they won’t get their licenses in time for the new requirements to kick in.

“We were planning on it before we even heard about the changes. I just think it’s good to have all the training you can have,” said Chapman.

And without that training – for workers behind the beauty – things might not look so pretty around here.

Legislators are still working out the language, whether they’ll grandfather any salons in, or when the new requirements will go into effect.

They’re hoping to have it worked out by the end of the session.