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Connecticut licensing board conditionally approves four school applications, requires explicit "textured hair" curriculum
Summary
The Department of Public Health board approved four cosmetology/barber program applications — Maison de Alexandre, Scissor Society Inc., Fresh Cuts Academy LLC and Feel How You Look Education Studio — contingent on adding explicit "textured hair" hours and catalog details to meet DPH requirements.
Chairman Anderson and board members voted during the board’s Nov. 19 remote meeting to approve four school applications on the condition that each program explicitly include the statutorily required textured-hair hours and update student catalogs. The schools were Maison de Alexandre Cosmetology Academy, Scissor Society Inc. (barbering program), Fresh Cuts Academy LLC and Feel How You Look Education Studio.
The board questioned applicants about course catalogs and documentation. Chairman Anderson told Maison de Alexandre that the board needed the dedicated textured-hair hours recorded in the catalog: “that area of textured hair be included in the curriculum and that at some point be made available to this group,” he said. The school’s representative said the program partners with PivotPoint and can amend and tailor curricular hours to meet the requirement.
Board members repeatedly flagged missing catalog items during reviews: student complaint procedures, satisfactory academic progress calculations, staff listings, refund policies and the Department of Public Health mailing address. For the Feel How You Look Education Studio application, the chair asked the applicant to add the textured‑hair hours explicitly; DPH staff clarified the barbering requirement as 20 classroom hours and 275 clinical hours (295 total), which the board noted must be documented in the program materials.
Board member Jessica Dudley and others said they were comfortable approving the programs as long as the schools submitted verification that textured-hair instruction had been added. DPH staff agreed to accept those updates and to issue correspondence reflecting the conditional approvals.
The approvals were recorded in the meeting after motions and affirmative votes from board members. The board chair and staff advised applicants that additional licensing-direction or oversight (for example from the Office of Higher Education) may follow during DPH’s administrative processes.
The board also instructed staff to coordinate with DPH licensing personnel to verify catalog updates and to include any outstanding documentation in the board record prior to final licensing actions.
