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Feb. 8th, 2025 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackQuestion on Reddit, "Can you take your hairdresser/barber license to another country?"
Answer, "No, other countries than the US don't require hairdressers/barbers to be licensed."
UK does often require the shop to get a licence from the local council, so it can be inspected for health safety. There's probably other details I don't know.
But it's a reminder to look at what other countries do and see if it's better or worse. Sometimes it's better -- I like British plugs for preventing accidental electrocution. But if you say "we have to do X else Y" and no-one else does X and don't have any more difficulty with Y then maybe you can just not bother and it will be ok.
Sometimes I'm seized with doubt. Can people just do this without needing any permission? But often, yes, there's been no need to regulate it so you just can unless it's banned.
Answer, "No, other countries than the US don't require hairdressers/barbers to be licensed."
UK does often require the shop to get a licence from the local council, so it can be inspected for health safety. There's probably other details I don't know.
But it's a reminder to look at what other countries do and see if it's better or worse. Sometimes it's better -- I like British plugs for preventing accidental electrocution. But if you say "we have to do X else Y" and no-one else does X and don't have any more difficulty with Y then maybe you can just not bother and it will be ok.
Sometimes I'm seized with doubt. Can people just do this without needing any permission? But often, yes, there's been no need to regulate it so you just can unless it's banned.
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Date: 2025-02-09 11:42 am (UTC)I can see the value of certification if people are getting into bleaching and perming and such but, for where my father and I got our hair cut for a while in England, regulation really would be overkill: we were happy enough to get an agreeably cheap haircut from the guy who ran the shop in the next village over, he had a barber's chair in an outbuilding around the back.
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Date: 2025-02-09 12:03 pm (UTC)A few people online suggested that perhaps there needs to be some short safety course about bleach and blood safety etc, but a full college course isn't necessary.
Some people suggested that having a qualification in the UK was *normal* even though not legally required.
But as in the original point, I'm not aware of a problem of rogue stylists doing things dangerously. None of the threads had people from outside the US saying "OK, occasionally some idiot hurts someone with bleach but that's normal". So IS it needed?
Perhaps, if they do, it's sufficiently obvious they're bad that people don't go back, and the chances of someone being seriously injured in the first session is sufficiently low it's not worth regulating. Or that most people have at least done their own hair and their friends' hair before doing it for money, and discovered any disasters that way.
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Date: 2025-02-11 05:52 pm (UTC)