purchasing products without a license number...
Hello All! My question is...how do I buy product without the license number? I am FINALLY taking my Board Exam on Monday. I have been studying like mad, but am still quite anxious. I will be starting to rent a room in a salon shortly after the test...I have already bought all my equipment, disposables and such and those companies worked with me, but have not had the same luck with products. I have been told it could take up to 8 weeks for my state (IL) to send me my results. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Permalink Reply by Crickett Enos on
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Do you have your business license and business cards yet? If so, try seeing if the products companies will work with you based on this information with the contingency that once you have your license you will contact them immediately. From their standpoint, you are not yet licensed so purchasing product for "licensed" professionals could be tricky until you actually are. You may need to purchase yourself some retail size products (at retail price) of the product line you want to use for backbar until you are licensed, just so you can start doing services as soon as you get your license.
Also, you should check and make sure that your insurance will cover you if you plan on performing services while you are in between school and licensing.
Hope this helps.
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Permalink Reply by Tabatha Potter on
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Thanks for the tips!
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Permalink Reply by Kirsten Kayser on
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Hello Tabatha,
This is a common situation for those looking to set up their own business fresh out of school.
I remember when I was a student in esthetics school, students were allowed to purchase professional product through some product companies with proof that they were in the esthetics program and their estimated graduation date, or for those who had finished the program but were awaiting taking their state boards. Some states even provide a temporary license to carry you between graduation of your course, through receiving your permanent license. Also, you can log into your IL state board website and you can often look up your license number which will be posted there, prior to actually receiving your paper license in the mail.
See if either of these avenues may work for you in the interim. If not, keep checking with your state board at www.idfpr.com/dpr/WHO/esth.asp.
Let us know what happens and best wishes for your exam on Monday!
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Thank you! There is a supply house I can purchase from, just not the products I really want to use. I didn't know they might post it online before mailing it to me...Yay! I hope so! and Thanks for the best wishes! I have been taking all my review tests from the textbooks and doing the online Milady exams as well, think I'll do just fine 8 )
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I know you'll do great, it's not that bad as long as you don't let the nerves get you :)
Congrats, and I would give the state board a call as well to inquire about your license number a couple weeks after your test. Usually it's already processed by then, but it takes them a while to print everything up and mail it out :)
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Test was ok...wording on some of the questions was so damn cryptic though, not entirely confident that I passed. Think I did ok
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passed with a 91! yay!!!!
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passed with a 91! yay!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Jodi on
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I had a temp license # after I registered to take my exams. Does your state have that? If so, they should accept that.
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No, unfortunately. My state (IL) is so backwards. The test was paper and pencil. LOL
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