Wyoming: Permanent Makeup & Nano Brows Licensing and Regulation

Verified against official sources, 2026-11-11.

How can you check Nano Brows providers in Wyoming?

No online lookup located: As of 2026-11-11, we did not locate a public online lookup. You may ask the provider for the credential's name and issuing agency.

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Who regulates it

NO state licensing — pure LOCAL-OPTION county/city regulation under general public-health authority (W.S. 35-1-101 et seq.); the only state-level PMU-reaching law is the minors statute (W.S. 14-3-107). COSMETOLOGY COUNTER-LEAD DISCARDED with proof: the Cosmetology Act (W.S. 33-12-119 to -140) defines practice as hair/skin/nails beautification with no needle/pigment act, and the Board's live license-verification taxonomy contains NO tattoo/PMU/body-art category. A state tattoo-parlor scheme was PROPOSED AND DIED (SF0071/2007 — proven non-enacted: its target statute slot, W.S. 35-1-240(a)(xxii), today contains unrelated physician-recruitment content)

Does it cover permanent makeup / nano brows?

Coverage: explicitly-covered

State level: unaddressed except the minors statute (its tool-neutral tattoo definition reaches PMU; hand-tool nuance unresolved). COUNTY level: PMU NAMED expressly where programs exist — Cheyenne-Laramie County Board of Health regs: body art 'utilizing... tattooing, COSMETIC TATTOOING...' (medical-procedure + stud-earlobe exclusions; tattoo definition exempts physicians AND veterinarians in professional duties); Casper-Natrona County (live page): 'Body art is defined as tattoo, PERMANENT MAKEUP, and body piercing'; license required for 'permanent make-up artists, people who practice microblading'; draft regs: 'MICROPIGMENTATION (SMP) see TATTOOING'; Teton County: body art includes 'Permanent cosmetics'. Coverage enum reflects the county programs' express naming; the STATE-LEVEL near-absence is the entry's structural headline. Secondary claims that 'only Laramie County regulates' are WRONG (Natrona/Teton/Campbell confirmed) — discredited-lead flag.

Artist requirements

License required	No individual artist license at this level
Training	no state credential; COUNTY artist permits where adopted: Laramie County individual Body Artist Permit (annual, employer sign-off, hep-B/communicable-disease statements, BBP certification; may work only in licensed establishments; apprentices barred from under-18 patrons entirely); Casper-Natrona license for tattoo/PMU/microblading artists + apprentices requires passing a BODY ART SANITATION EXAM (BBP, hygiene, waste, equipment); Teton practitioner application (rules PDF image-scan — details unresolved); Cheyenne city: county-equivalent + city business license
Exam	county-level only (Casper-Natrona sanitation exam)
Bloodborne pathogen	county-level (Laramie BBP certification; Casper exam content)
Minimum age	no artist floor identified; CLIENTS: W.S. 14-3-107 — minors (under 18) require parental/guardian consent AND PHYSICAL PRESENCE at the procedure; enumerated-ID verification w/ reasonable-reliance defense; misdemeanor ≤6 months/$750; Laramie County adds: apprentices never work on minors; no genital/breast-area work on minors
Fee	county-variable (Campbell $50 parlor permit; Laramie/Natrona schedules unretrieved)
Renewal	county-variable (annual typical)

Facility requirements

License required	No
Inspection regime	no state establishment license; COUNTY programs: Laramie County establishment license (plan review + pre-opening inspection + annual renewal; special-event license ≤7 days; guest-artist permits ≤4/yr tied to a licensed event/establishment; standards: ≥100 sq ft procedure room, 1 hand sink per ≤3 artists, 240°F/15psi/30min steam sterilization + monthly spore tests, 2-yr records; misdemeanor enforcement via W.S. 35-1-106/-303); Casper-Natrona plan review + annual inspection ('2025 Rules for Tattoo & Body Art' — image PDF, text extraction queued); Teton establishment application (eff. 2019); Campbell County Tattoo Parlor Permit ($50, health-officer inspection); Cheyenne ch. 5.68 + City of Laramie (Albany Co) ch. 8.12 exist (Municode-gated, texts queued — note the Laramie County vs City of Laramie confusion trap)
Fee	county-variable
Renewal	county-variable (annual typical)

Local variation

County-level variation: Yes

Pure local option — no state floor beyond the minors statute; confirmed programs in 4 of 23 counties (Laramie/Cheyenne, Natrona/Casper, Teton/Jackson, Campbell/Gillette); remaining ~19 counties unconfirmed and plausibly unregulated (UNRESOLVED); NEHA Body Art Model Code used as a drafting template locally, not a state mandate.

Reciprocity

n/a state-level (no license; §33-12-132 endorsement covers cosmetology-family only — cannot reach PMU). County: no inter-county reciprocity found; Laramie County permits are jurisdiction-bound; guest-artist permits (≤4/yr, event/establishment-tied) are the only visiting mechanism.

Pending / recent changes

Active changes: None identified

No pending legislation. Both of the Legislature's recent sessions were searched in full on 2026-11-11 — 891 bills, 556 from the 2025 general session and 335 from the 2026 budget session — and none concerns tattooing, permanent makeup, micropigmentation or body art. The list came from the Legislative Service Office's own bill service rather than from the legislature's web pages, which serve an application shell with no bill data in them; it is the same data those pages display. Two 2025 bills surfaced on a deliberately broad search and neither is relevant: HB0103 concerns the "structural integrity and esthetics of columbariums", and SF0113, the Braider Opportunity Act, exempts natural hair braiding from the Wyoming Cosmetology Act — which if anything confirms that the Act reaches hair, skin and nails rather than needle-and-pigment work. Historical: SF0071 of 2007 died, so the state has considered a licensing scheme and declined it. Casper-Natrona's amended body-art rules of February 2025 are current local law, not pending.

What this means before you book

Wyoming has no state license for PMU or tattooing — whether anyone checks on your artist depends on the county: Cheyenne/Laramie County licenses both studios and individual artists (with bloodborne-pathogen certification), Casper/Natrona County licenses permanent-makeup and microblading artists by name and makes them pass a sanitation exam, and Jackson/Teton and Gillette/Campbell run permit programs — but most of Wyoming's counties have no program at all. Statewide, minors need a parent or guardian present and consenting at the procedure. With no public register anywhere, ask the county health department — and the artist — directly.

Statutes & sources cited

W.S. 14-3-107 (performing body-art on minors; verbatim, current 2025 codification): body-art on a minor requires 'the consent of the person's parent or legal guardian WHO IS PRESENT at the time the body-art procedure is performed'; enumerated IDs prima facie; misdemeanor ≤6 months/$750; (c)(vi) 'Tattoo' = 'any indelible design... placed upon or under the skin with ink or colors, by the aid of needles or other instruments'; physician-supervised practices + stud-and-clasp earlobe piercing excluded
W.S. 33-12-119 to -140 (Cosmetology Act; §33-12-120(a)(v) practice definition; §33-12-140(c)-(d) exemptions incl. facial-makeup-only; §33-12-132 endorsement covers ONLY cosmetology-family licenses; §§33-12-101 to -118 repealed 1985 — pre-1985 scope UNRESOLVED, Idaho-style repeal check queued)
SF0071 (2007, 'Regulation of tattoo parlors' — would have added DOH power to regulate tattoo parlors/body art at W.S. 35-1-240(a)(xxii)): NEVER ENACTED (current statute text occupies the slot with unrelated content — documentary proof)