Class A Barber - Scope of Practice
What Services are Allowed?
A licensed Class A Barber can offer perform or advertise the following services to the public in exchange for compensation:
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Beautifying treatments of a person’s face, neck, shoulders, or arms
1603.0011(a)(4)
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Body hair removal using depilatories, preparations or chemicals, tweezers, or other devices or appliances of any kind
1603.0011(a)(6)
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Cleansing treatments of a person’s face, neck, scalp, shoulders or arms
1603.0011(a)(3)
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Facial Treatments
1603.0011(a)(5)
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Hair services, including: arranging, beautifying, bleaching, bobbing, cleansing, clipping, coloring, cutting, dressing, dyeing, processing, shaping, singeing, straightening, styling, tinting, trimming, or waving
1603.011(a)(1)
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Massaging a person's scalp, neck, shoulders, arms, face, hands or feet
1603.0011(a)(3), 1603.0011(a)(8)
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Mustache or beard services, including: arranging, beautifying, coloring, processing, styling, trimming, or shaving
1603.011(a)(2) and 1603.0011(b)
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Nail treatments including: cutting, trimming, polishing, tinting, coloring, cleansing, manicuring, pedicuring, or attaching false nails
1603.0011(a)(7)
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Shaving a person's face or neck with a razor of any type
1603.0011(b)
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Weaving of hair to attach commercial hair to a person's hair or scalp
1603.0011(a)(9)
What Services are Not Allowed?
A Class A Barber cannot perform or advertise the following services in exchange for compensation:
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Eyelash extensions using semipermanent, threadlike extensions composed of applying single fibers to a person’s eyelashes.
1603.0011(c)
Who Can Provide Services in Texas?
Only licensed individuals who hold a Texas license can perform the services listed above (1603.2101).
Class-A Barbers may perform most cosmetology services, with the exception of eyelash-extension services. In the same way, Cosmetology Operators may perform most barbering services, with the exception of straight-razor shaving.
The following license types can perform some (but not all) of the services allowed by a Class-A Barber license:
Un-licensed individuals cannot represent themselves or their business using the words “barber”, “barbering”, “cosmetologist”, “cosmetology”, or any combination, variation, or abbreviation of these words (1603.2101).
Exemptions to Licensing Requirement
There are specific exemptions for:
- Persons licensed in Texas to practice medicine, dentistry, podiatry, chiropractic, or nursing and operating within the scope of their license
- Military medical officers performing official duties
- Inmates in the institutional division of the TDCJ system who perform barbering or cosmetology services
- A person who provides services in an emergency
- Persons who perform regular duties at a licensed nursing or convalescent custodial or personal care home to a patient residing in the home
- Individuals who provide “incidental cosmetic services” in preparation for television/film appearances or photographic services
See 1603.0013 for more details on exemptions.
