Wednesday, January 16, 2013

New State board Rules Regarding Dermaplaining


Cracking Down on Dermaplaining in The NC

North Carolina has just posted on their site that dermaplaining does not fall into the scope of practice for estheticians.

Our Scope of Practice

Refers to any of the following practices: giving facials; applying makeup; performing skin care; removing superfluous hair from the body of a person by use of creams, tweezers, or waxing; applying eyelashes to a person, including the application of eyelash extensions, brow or lash color; beautifying the face, neck, arms, or upper part of the human body by use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams; surface manipulation in relation to skin care; or cleaning or stimulating the face, neck, ears, arms, hands, bust, torso, legs, or feet of a person by means of hands, devices, apparatus, or appliances along with the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams.

The action of any student or licensee to violate the Board rules in the following manner shall result in civil penalty in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per instance of each action:
(1) Use of any product, implement or piece of equipment in any manner other than the product's, implement's or equipment's intended use as described or detailed by the manufacturer;

(2) Diagnosis of any medical condition or treatment of any medical condition unless referred by a physician; or

(3) Use of any product that will penetrate the dermis; or

(4) Provision of any service unless trained prior to performing the service; or

(5) Performance of services on a client if the licensee has reason to believe the client has any of the following:

(A) a contagious condition or disease;

(B) inflamed infected, broken, raised or swollen skin or nail tissue; or

(C) an open wound or sore in the area to be worked on; or

(6) Alteration of or duplication of a license issued by the Board; or

(7) Advertisement or solicitation of clients in any form of communication in a manner that is false or misleading; or

(8) Use of any FDA rated class II device without the documented supervision of a licensed 
physician.

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