Wiki re daughter and beauty school - I think they are now pushing (gently) a combined manicurist and esthetician course, so that you can legally wax hair off toes if you're a manicurist! So that would be a good thing. Also nail polishes are getting less toxic, but you have to be careful. I would stay away from hair, then that is totally standing. Plus the classes go a lot longer. How fun!

Also, licenses are state regulated, so its totally different everywhere.