Do I  need a Beauty Salon License?  I am currently selling beauty products in my salon. I will be opening a full serviced beauty salon in my house.   I have a full serviced salon and spa.  I want to get a California   business license to open this salon so I can service customers and sell my beauty products.

If you already have a barber's or cosmetologist's license, California  law requires that businesses that sell beauty products obtain an California business license.  The license from the State of California is called a seller's permit but you also need an California business license from you city.

  (d) The practice of barbering and the practice of cosmetology do
not include any of the following:
   (1) The mere sale, fitting, or styling of wigs or hairpieces.
   (2) Natural hair braiding. Natural hair braiding is a service that
results in tension on hair strands or roots by twisting, wrapping,
weaving, extending, locking, or braiding by hand or mechanical
device, provided that the service does not include haircutting or the
application of dyes, reactive chemicals, or other preparations to
alter the color of the hair or to straighten, curl, or alter the
structure of the hair.
   (3) Threading. Threading is a technique that results in removing
hair by twisting thread around unwanted hair and pulling it from the
skin and the incidental trimming of eyebrow hair.
   (e) Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of subdivision (d), a person who
engages in natural hairstyling, which is defined as the provision of
natural hair braiding services together with any of the services or
procedures defined within the regulated practices of barbering or
cosmetology, is subject to regulation pursuant to this chapter and
shall obtain and maintain a barbering or cosmetology license as
applicable to the services respectively offered or performed.
   (f) Electrolysis is the practice of removing hair from, or
destroying hair on, the human body by the use of an electric needle
only.
   "Electrolysis" as used in this chapter includes electrolysis or
thermolysis.

In addition, to sell beauty products, you will need a proffesional license issued from the state itself by the appropriate board. As such, you will need to obtain two seperate filings.

A business license is a registration with the local government for three purposes.

1. Certifying that your business is legal as planned.

2. Registering as designed with the local government for local taxes.

3.  Taking care of zoning issues.

In addition, you will need a barber's license, and perhaps a consmetologist license as provided by california BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS CODE
SECTION 7316-7320.5

7316.  (a) The practice of barbering is all or any combination of
the following practices:
   (1) Shaving or trimming the beard or cutting the hair.
   (2) Giving facial and scalp massages or treatments with oils,
creams, lotions, or other preparations either by hand or mechanical
appliances.
   (3) Singeing, shampooing, arranging, dressing, curling, waving,
chemical waving, hair relaxing, or dyeing the hair or applying hair
tonics.
 

  (4) Applying cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, powders, oils,
clays, or lotions to scalp, face, or neck.
   (5) Hairstyling of all textures of hair by standard methods that
are current at the time of the hairstyling.
   (b) The practice of cosmetology is all or any combination of the
following practices:
   (1) Arranging, dressing, curling, waving, machineless permanent
waving, permanent waving, cleansing, cutting, shampooing, relaxing,
singeing, bleaching, tinting, coloring, straightening, dyeing,
applying hair tonics to, beautifying, or otherwise treating by any
means, the hair of any person.
   (2) Massaging, cleaning, or stimulating the scalp, face, neck,
arms, or upper part of the human body, by means of the hands,
devices, apparatus or appliances, with or without the use of cosmetic
preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams.
   (3) Beautifying the face, neck, arms, or upper part of the human
body, by use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions,
or creams.
   (4) Removing superfluous hair from the body of any person by the
use of depilatories or by the use of tweezers, chemicals, or
preparations or by the use of devices or appliances of any kind or
description, except by the use of light waves, commonly known as
rays.
   (5) Cutting, trimming, polishing, tinting, coloring, cleansing, or
manicuring the nails of any person.
   (6) Massaging, cleansing, treating, or beautifying the hands or
feet of any person.
   (c) Within the practice of cosmetology there exist the specialty
branches of skin care and nail care.
   (1) Skin care is any one or more of the following practices:
   (A) Giving facials, applying makeup, giving skin care, removing
superfluous hair from the body of any person by the use of
depilatories, tweezers or waxing, or applying eyelashes to any
person.
   (B) Beautifying the face, neck, arms, or upper part of the human
body, by use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions,
or creams.
   (C) Massaging, cleaning, or stimulating the face, neck, arms, or
upper part of the human body, by means of the hands, devices,
apparatus, or appliances, with the use of cosmetic preparations,
antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams.
   (2) Nail care is the practice of cutting, trimming, polishing,
coloring, tinting, cleansing, or manicuring the nails of any person
or massaging, cleansing, or beautifying the hands or feet of any
person.
 

A Proffesional cosmetologist license is required for each person that works in the salon as a barber or beautician.  The license serves the same dual purpose, but at the state level, as well as an additional purpose. Every proffesion requiring a proffesional license is required to have the form provided by the state hanging in the open. This is not necessarily true of a business license.

You need An California Business License, and an California cosmetologist license. A California DBA and an California Seller's Permit.

All California businesses selling beauty products are required to obtain a business license, so you need:

1. A Business License.

2. Your  business name must be registered because it is a fictitious business name so you will need to file a DBA business name certificate, and

Without a professional beauty salon and a beautician cosmetologist license, a business faces charges from the state itself, in addition to the previously stated difficulties arising from the absence of a business license.

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We now offer a service that will not only obtain for you the necessary business license for your business, but will research and determine the training you need for your proffesional license, prepare and if possible file the forms, determine the necessary fees, and provide you with as much information and prepared and fill out forms as possible given the proffesional license you desire.

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3. Since you are selling beauty products which are taxable items, you need a an California Seller's License.

It’s recommended that instead of a DBA certificate, you may want to incorporate of form an LLC to protect your personal assets from transactions arising out of business transactions.

In general, after you get a California business license, forming a California LLC is a good choice.

Without a business license, a business faces late taxes, penalties, fines, audits, a wide range of misdemeanor charges, as well as outright police closure.

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