Texas Cosmetology Manicurist license lookup — free

A Cosmetology Manicurist license is held by nail technicians providing manicures, pedicures, and related nail services in a licensed salon. It's one of several individual license types TDLR consolidated under its unified Barbering & Cosmetology program, sharing the same renewal system and continuing-education rules as operators, estheticians, and other specialty license holders. Salon owners check this number to confirm a nail tech is actually licensed to work on clients, not just trained informally. Because nail salons often run several techs on flexible schedules, a lapsed license can mean turning away a tech's chair on short notice.

This license renews every two years, with the same 4-hour continuing education requirement TDLR applies across the program — 1 hour sanitation, 1 hour human trafficking awareness, and 2 elective hours, reduced to a flat 2 hours once a manicurist has held the license 15 years or longer. The general tiered late-renewal fee structure is confirmed for the program's business (establishment) license, but TDLR's pages don't separately quote the individual manicurist's exact late fee — check the official renewal page for the current dollar amount rather than assuming one. Past expiration, the license simply isn't valid to work on until it's renewed.