She’s been a successful Hollywood makeup artist for 25 years, but the State of Nevada has shut her business down because she doesn’t operate an official school which of course, is subject to arbitrary state education requirements and fees. Wendy Robin is the face of government overreach.
North Carolina engages in this same overreach. Imagine if you’re an African hair braider. Here are the silly hoops you must jump through in order to earn a living an an African hair braider.
In North Carolina, practitioners of the art — which is a traditional skill passed down from one generation to the next that most braiders learned as children, is usually practiced by West African immigrants, many of whom cannot speak English, and doesn’t involve chemicals — now must spend thousands of dollars in cosmetology school and complete 300 hours of classroom credit in order to be certified.
