NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A local makeup artist is questioning why makeup artists working at cosmetic counters are not held to the same standards as those who work as professional, full time artists.
Jillian Doherty works as a professional makeup artist. She told Nashville's News 2 Investigates that she has studied at well known makeup institutes.
"I have 550 hours of makeup training specifically," she said.
However, in March the 23-year-old makeup artist was cited by an inspector with the State Board of Cosmetology for not having proper certification.
According to the state of Tennessee, to be a paid makeup artist in her Green Hills shop or on location, Doherty must complete 750 hours in the aesthetician curriculum or 1,500 hours of cosmetology instruction.
Doherty said she understands the need for regulations, but she questions Tennessee's law which allows makeup artists that work at cosmetic counters to do so without board certification or cosmetology inspection.?
"I'm definitely not about trying to avoid the law or avoid licenses. I want to do it the right way, but I also want to do what's fair," she said.
Under the Cosmetology Act of 1986 TCA Code 62-4-109 the state exempts, ‘any person who demonstrates or applies cosmetics without charge in a retail establishment.'
"They wouldn't be doing anything differently. They would be touching people's faces in the same way that I do," Doherty said.
Nashville's News 2 Investigates questioned the Department of Revenue which oversees the Cosmetology Board why the same requirements are not required for cosmetic counter makeup artists.
Public Information Officer Chris Garrett could only say because it is the law and the board follows the law.?
After speaking with Garrett, Nashville's News 2 Investigates pulled the original law from 1986 which was signed by Speaker of the House Ned McWherter, Speaker of the Senate John Wilder and Governor Lamar Alexander.
An exemption to the original law was added by then Memphis legislature Steve Cohen who is now serving as a United States Congressman.
According to officials for the congressman, neither Representative Cohen nor his long time aid can remember the reasoning behind the exemption 25 years ago.
In Part II, Nashville's News 2 Investigates talks to a Vanderbilt doctor who says the same medical issues for bacterial contamination exists whether a makeup artist works in a department store cosmetic counter or in a privately owned business.
Watch Part II on Nashville's News 2 at 10 p.m. Wednesday.
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