A California-licensed MANICURIST is asked by a client to also perform a pedicure that includes scrubbing, foot-mask, and polish. Within scope, the manicurist may:
Explanation
California's manicurist license (Bus. & Prof. Code §7321) authorizes the manicurist to perform any practice 'in the cleaning, cutting, shaping, manicuring, pedicuring or beautifying of the fingernails or toenails' and the immediately surrounding skin, hands, feet, with a non-invasive hand or foot massage that does not extend beyond the elbow or knee. So pedicures are squarely IN scope. Credo blades and cutting living tissue are out of scope. Leg waxing above the knee crosses into esthetician/cosmetologist scope (option D). Option A misreads the statute. Option C invents physician supervision that the statute does not require for routine cosmetic foot care.
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