HB70 Summary

• Establishes licensing and regulation of esthetician/makeup artists by the Alabama Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, defining the practice as a combination of esthetics and makeup application.

• Requires esthetician/makeup artists to register with the board and pay an original license fee beginning October 1, 2025, and subjects them to board rules including shop requirements and sanitation procedures.

• Mandates that candidates for esthetician/makeup artist licensure must hold an esthetician license and complete at least 500 clock hours of skin care fundamentals instruction in a licensed cosmetology or esthetics school.

• Adds definitions for "makeup application" (applying cosmetic products to skin, eyebrows, and lashes for compensation) and "esthetics/makeup application" (combination of both practices).

• Takes effect June 1, 2025.