Louisiana: Permanent Makeup & Nano Brows Licensing and Regulation

Verified against official sources, 2026-11-11.

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Who regulates it

Louisiana Department of Health (LDH), Office of Public Health, Bureau of Sanitarian Services (Food & Drug Unit) — CENTRALIZED statewide 'commercial body art' registration of operators, managers, facilities, and training facilities; regional FDU sanitarians (assigned by parish) are LDH's own field staff, not independent parish regulators

Does it cover permanent makeup / nano brows?

Coverage: explicitly-covered

R.S. 40:2831(1)(c), verbatim: commercial body art facilities include those providing "the application of permanent cosmetics or pigments under the skin of a human being for the purpose of permanently changing the color or other appearance of the skin, including but not limited to permanent eyeliner, eye shadow, or lip color." LAC 51:XXVIII defines Body Art to include 'cosmetic tattooing' and §107(D) requires before/after photographs for permanent cosmetic corrective procedures. 'Microblading' as a literal term: not in the retrievable primary texts (UNRESOLVED whether the July-2025 LDH final rule names it) — coverage via cosmetic tattooing/permanent cosmetics is unambiguous. PHYSICIAN EXEMPTION, verbatim: 'Any physician licensed by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners is exempt from the provisions of this Chapter' (R.S. 40:2832(K)); tattoo REMOVAL by non-physicians is separately criminal per LDH FAQ. Cosmetology board (LSBC) has no PMU jurisdiction; secondary reporting of its 2023 scope rule + a declaratory order (LDH-registered CBA operator in a dedicated room within a salon) is UNVERIFIED against LAC 46:XXXI (PDF blocker) — flagged, not asserted.

Artist requirements

License required	Yes
Training	no hour minimum — operator Certificate of Registration requires current CPR, First Aid, and Bloodborne Pathogens/Disease Transmission Prevention certificates (LAC §109; only BBP may be taken online per LDH FAQ); form FD-56 + state photo ID
Exam	none
Bloodborne pathogen	yes — current certificate; renewed before expiration
Minimum age	NO ARTIST AGE FLOOR FOUND (searched — UNRESOLVED); CLIENTS: R.S. 14:93.2 verbatim — unlawful to tattoo anyone under 18 'without the consent of an accompanying parent or tutor' (accompaniment implies presence; NO absolute age floor — unusual nationally); fine $100-$500 and/or 30 days-1 year; LAC §107.H mirrors (presence + consent + ID) and confirms operators may refuse minors regardless of consent; LDH may suspend/revoke registrations for 14:93.2 violations (R.S. 40:2832(I)-(J))
Fee	$100 initial / $60 annual renewal (operator); $200/$150 (manager) — statutory (R.S. 40:2832(L)), cross-verified against LDH fee table
Renewal	annual — all registrations expire December 31 (LAC §309)

Facility requirements

License required	Yes
Inspection regime	≥1 pre-operational inspection required before approval; LDH may inspect 'at any time the department considers necessary' (R.S. 40:2832(H), verbatim; fixed annual-inspection cadence not stated — noted); suspension/revocation authority §2832(I); form FD-55 via regional FDU sanitarian; temporary event booths: $100 resident / $250 nonresident per event (≤14 consecutive days, posted, pre-use inspection)
Fee	$1,000 initial / $500 annual renewal (facility owner); training facilities $3,000/$1,000 — statutory
Renewal	annual (Dec 31)

Local variation

County-level variation: No

Single centralized LDH scheme; no parish/municipal body-art permitting layer found — New Orleans checked (Municode index has no tattoo/body-art chapter;

Reciprocity

No reciprocity mechanism — LDH's own FAQ walks an out-of-state artist through the SAME registration (FD-56 + certificates + fee); training certificates are accepted from any approved provider regardless of state, but no license recognition or waiver exists.

Pending / recent changes

Active changes: None identified

No 2025/2026 bill amending R.S. 40:2831-2834 or 14:93.2 found (HB670 keyword hit checked and discarded — wood pellets). RESOLVED 2026-11-11: the LDH "Final Rule: Commercial Body Art" is LAC 51:XXVIII.107 as amended, published in the Louisiana Register at LR 51:73 (January 20, 2025) and adopted on the day of promulgation. It implements Act 365 of the 2024 Regular Legislature and adds exactly one requirement — the consent form must carry "a prominent statement regarding the regulatory status of any inks being used for the procedure"; subsections B through M were not amended. Read verbatim from the Register, which is text-bearing, so the non-OCR scan was never the only copy. Corroborated against R.S. 40:2833(A)(6), which Act 365 amended to the same effect — an independent official source rather than a second copy of the same document.

What this means before you book

Louisiana registers PMU statewide as 'commercial body art' through the state health department: the studio holds a facility registration ($1,000 to open, $500/year, pre-opening inspection) and each artist holds an operator registration ($100, renewed annually at $60) with current CPR, first-aid, and bloodborne-pathogen certificates. Permanent eyeliner, eye shadow, and lip color are named in the statute itself. Since January 2025 the consent form you sign must prominently state whether the pigment being used is regulated or approved by the state of Louisiana or the federal Food and Drug Administration — no PMU pigment is FDA-approved for injection, so expect that statement to say so, and read it before you sign. Minors can only be tattooed with an accompanying parent or guardian's consent — and studios may refuse minors entirely. There's no public register of operators; verification means contacting LDH's regional sanitarian office.

Statutes & sources cited

La. R.S. 40:2831-2834 (Commercial Body Art Regulation; §2831 definitions fetched verbatim, current text am. Acts 2022 No. 196; §2832 registration/fees/inspections/suspension; §2832(K) physician exemption; §2833 sanitary-standards rulemaking, am. Acts 2024 No. 365 — §2833(A)(6) now requires that, for tattooing services, "the written consent shall prominently state whether the ink used is regulated by the state or the United States Food and Drug Administration"; §2833(A)(5) requires written records of the color, manufacturer and lot number of each pigment used; §2834 injunctive relief)
LAC Title 51 (Sanitary Code), Part XXVIII (Commercial Body Art; LDH-hosted text: §101 definitions incl. 'cosmetic tattooing', §107 client protections incl. minors + PMU corrective-photo rule and, as amended LR 51:73 (January 2025) to implement Act 365, the ink regulatory-status statement required on every consent form, §109 operator training, §§309-313 annual registration + temporary registrations, §131 tattoo & permanent cosmetic procedures)
La. R.S. 14:93.2 (tattooing/body piercing of minors — criminal statute, fetched verbatim; unamended since 1997)