UPDATE: Beauty Standard Commitment for the Professional Beauty Industry

By signing this commitment, I am standing up for a professional standard within the beauty industry. A standard set by the professionals who exemplify health, safety, education, and service that the people of Utah can rely upon. Unlicensed, unprofessional beauty practices will hurt not only client's health and quality of service, but it will also be used to delegitimize schools, deconstruct a decent standard of living our families rely upon and replace it with a flooded labor market and reduced income.

Senate Bill 87, sponsored by Curtis Bramble (which deregulated shampooing, conditioning, heat styling, and blow drying) passed regardless of our well being, and today we say ENOUGH.

To offer these new deregulated services, the only requirement is a short, online course to obtain a “Hair Safety Permit”, as well as a displayed sign explaining the individual's lack of licensure. There is no hands-on sanitation training, technique training, or any resource, marketing, or business training at all.

By signing this commitment, I am taking a step as an employer or beauty school to uphold professional standards of health, safety, and education by exclusively working those who meet the standards Utah deserves.

By signing this as a contractor or employee I am taking a stand to discourage and resist working with individuals who seek to skip the education and effort that make a professional cosmetologist.

By signing this as a beauty student or apprentice, I am taking a stand to preserve the education that I deserve.

We would never allow our medical professionals or other parts of our community to ignore education and proving oneself, so why should we?  We have had enough of letting our lives and clients lives fall into the hands of the disregarding.  Let us stand together and resist deregulation of laws that protect our clients and provide a professional standard. Today let's do what they fear the most and organize an association of professionals who are willing to build the beauty industry in Utah the way it was meant to be. Join us in our movement to take back our industry.

If you'd like to be involved, email utahbeautyproject@gmail.com and look out for our monthly newsletter.

Take a stand for your profession, your family, your clients and your community!