A bill co-sponsored by Bridgeport State Rep. Fred Gee that requires hairdresser training to work with textured hair was approved overwhelming by the State Senate. It now goes to the State House for a vote.
“This bill would add training for working with hair with various curl, coils and wave patterns, hair strand thickness, and volumes of hair,” says State Senator Herron Gaston.
“It’s important that hairdressers, and our salons are interculturally competent, that people have the tools, knowledge, skills and abilities and resources to ensure that they are offering a wide menu of services to people of various backgrounds.”
Lawmakers say they’ve heard from constituents expressing concerns that some stylists are not equipped to work with textured hair.
Summary of the legislation:
AN ACT REQUIRING THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF BARBERS, HAIRDRESSERS AND COSMETICIANS TO INCLUDE WORKING WITH TEXTURED HAIR.
SUMMARY
This bill requires the Department of Public Health (DPH) commissioner, in consultation with the Connecticut Examining Board for Barbers, Hairdressers and Cosmeticians, to amend the curriculum requirements for barber schools and hairdressing and cosmetology schools to include education and training in providing services to people with textured hair (i.e., coiled, curly, or wavy hair). This must include working with various curl and wave patterns, hair strand thicknesses, and hair volumes. For the barber curriculum only, the amendment must occur through DPH regulations.
By law, DPH, in consultation with the board, (1) must adopt regulations setting the minimum curriculum requirements for barber schools but (2) under specified procedures, may adopt the curriculum while in the process of adopting regulations. DPH, in consultation with the board, must adopt the curriculum for hairdressing and cosmetology schools and post it on the department’s website.
A cut above the rest.
They could be classified as Hairapists.
RIDICULOUS…………………DUMB
Not exactly, though it comes off as such. It’s “more about the training facilities/schooling to provide teh needed training in “texture” hair. I think. I can understand that. Can we use the word black though? That is what we are really talking about.
I don’t think it says every hairdresser must do/know how to do black people’s hair. That is a highly specialized field for hairdressers, I can assume one of many specializations in the field of Barbers, Hairdressers, and Cosmeticians, . I think.
Let’s say a person, for the sake of argument. A black girl wants to become a hairdresser who wants to do black women’s hair and when she goes to a hairdressing school the only hair they are teaching her is “non-texture” hair. It seems unfair in that manner. No?
But what’s more important people, is G2 spilling the beans on how he got his hair back.
G2 put his hair back together like he was mending a fence at Trumbull Gardens. You’re welcome. 🤣
https://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/more-ganim-chutzpah-patches-fence-near-trumbull-gardens-after-neighbors-complain-about-crime/
Why must bald men pay full price for a trim?
This is what our delegation feels important?
600+ bills to be considered, the vast majority of which will never see the day. and they’re going to waste time on hair styling..
Of course it passed overwhelmingly in the House…Aren’t they so culturally aware.
Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Bridgeport state rep’s played with loose ends.
Doomed.