La. to require stylists to learn how to cut textured hair

Louisiana's Board of Cosmetology passed a solution connected Nov. 1 that volition require each licensing exams to see a conception connected cutting textured hair.

"Textured hair" is wavy, kinky, coily and tightly-curled hairsbreadth — the benignant of hairsbreadth that Aveda Global Artistic Director Renee Gadar says immoderate hairstylists avoid.

"I spot stylists, particularly non-Black oregon brownish stylists, falter a batch is successful the finish," Gadar said. "They don't cognize however to benignant it. They're usually inactive acrophobic of it, and truthful we're wanting to adhd that to the authorities board, demonstrating styling techniques connected textured hair."

On Nov. 1, the Louisiana Board of Cosmetology passed a solution to necessitate each licensing exams to see a conception connected cutting textured hair.

"It's a maddening acquisition to spell from cosmetology to cosmetology schoolhouse to thatch texture," Gadar said. "What this does connected a ineligible level is, if you're gonna telephone yourself a hairstylist, you request to bash each the hairsbreadth that is perchance going to beryllium successful your chair."

Louisiana volition beryllium 1 of conscionable a fistful of authorities boards to present a measurement that makes textured hairsbreadth mandatory for getting a license.

With this caller resolution, Gadar hopes it volition grow adjacent more.

"Louisiana is the archetypal authorities to marque it a standard," Gadar said. "I'm hoping that this conscionable breaks retired from present and that it becomes a nationalist thing."

The solution volition beryllium implemented successful the authorities starting June 2022.

This communicative was primitively published by Eman Boyd connected Scripps presumption KATC successful Lafayette, Louisiana.