Minnesota wants 8 CE hours every renewal — laws, sanitation, safety. Most techs cram, pass, and forget by lunch. License Lock walks you through a 7-Station Salon Palace and welds every rule to an absurd picture your brain refuses to drop.
Just licensed and staring down your first CE cycle. Start clean, lock it once.
Done this three times and still cram every time. Not anymore.
The backbone of the trade. Study in English (the test's language) with the VI companion book at your side.
Train your floor so an inspection is a formality, not a fire drill.
You already know a salon in your bones — door, sinks, tables, ceiling, pedi thrones, back stock, restroom. That memory is free real estate. We nail each rule to the station it already belongs to, then hang an absurd Sumo-Librarian picture on it. Tap a station to walk it. Lock all seven to light up the map.
Study aid only. Answers are modeled on Minnesota Statutes ch. 155A, Minnesota Rules ch. 2105, and current OSHA/FDA guidance, but rules change — always confirm against the Minnesota Board of Cosmetologist Examiners and your board-approved CE provider before your exam.
Walk the stations to learn, then hit the quiz. Miss a question and it comes back sooner; nail it three times and it graduates. That's spaced repetition — the difference between "passed once" and locked.
25 questions in the real SSPA rhythm. Exam day should feel like a rerun.
The full 70-question universe, all 8 hours, edge cases and traps included.
20 random questions, no explanations until the end. Score yourself cold.
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Start EZPZ →Escaped Vietnam at eleven. Survived a Malaysian refugee camp. Landed in U.S. foster care with a loving foster family. Worked three jobs while earning his degree at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Served ten years in FBI Foreign Counter-Intelligence. Spent over twenty years reuniting his entire family in America — one person at a time. Now semi-retired, helping his wife run their Nail Art salon in Bloomington, Minnesota, a stone's throw from the Mall of America. He builds tools so the next tech doesn't have to learn everything the hard way.