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Turn your license into a business
The school teaches the craft. This section covers the rest, written for the license you actually hold: naming, LLC and EIN, salon and facility licenses, suite and booth rent, banking, startup costs. Florida rules, in plain language.
1600The basics, for every license
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Opening a Business Bank Account for Your Beauty Business
Why business money needs its own account from day one, what every bank asks for, and where to go next for the banking questions specific to your license.
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EIN Basics: The Free Number Every Beauty Business Needs
What an EIN is, when you actually need one, how to get it free in ten minutes, and where to go next for your specific license.
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Naming Your Beauty Business in Florida
How to pick a name you can actually use: checking Sunbiz, registering a fictitious name, and locking down the handle before you print a single business card.
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Facial Specialist / Esthetician
From booth rent to your own suite, with a Florida salon license.
Money
Esthetician Suite Rental in Florida: Costs, Agreements, Insurance, and Your Business Bank Account
What a suite or room rental agreement should say, the sales tax hidden in your rent, the insurance the landlord will ask for, and how to set up the account your Vagaro payouts land in.
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License, LLC, EIN
How to Start Your Own Esthetician Business in Florida: LLC, EIN, License, Suite
The order of operations for a Florida Facial Specialist going out on her own: where you are allowed to work, sole proprietor vs LLC, the EIN, the fictitious name, and the local paperwork nobody tells you about.
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Electrolysis & Laser
Facility license, physician supervision, and paying for the machine.
Money
Laser Hair Removal Machine Financing: Lease vs Buy, Startup Cost, and Business Banking
The machine is the business. How to think about leasing versus buying, what a lender asks a new electrologist for, how to bank prepaid packages and physician fees, and the startup costs people forget.
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License, LLC, EIN
How to Open a Laser Hair Removal Business in Florida: Requirements, Supervision, Facility License
What a licensed electrologist needs before offering laser hair removal in Florida: the laser certification, the supervising physician and written protocols, the facility license and inspections, and the LLC and EIN underneath it all.
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Nail Technician
LLC or sole proprietor, booth rent, and the money side of a high-volume business.
Money
Nail Tech Booth Rent in Florida: Rates, Contracts, Bank Account, and Taxes
How to read a booth rental contract, the sales tax the salon adds to your rent, what to do with cash and tips, and the account setup that keeps a high-volume nail business honest.
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License, LLC, EIN
Nail Tech LLC in Florida: Sole Proprietor vs LLC, EIN, and Your License
Whether a Florida nail tech needs an LLC, when the EIN becomes mandatory, which nail services are allowed outside a licensed salon, and the retail sales-tax registration most new techs miss.
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Permanent Makeup
Tattoo establishment rules, deposits, and a plan that pencils out.
Money
Permanent Makeup Business Plan for Florida: Startup Costs, Pricing, Deposits, Banking
A one-page plan for a PMU studio that pencils out: the licenses and permits in the budget, pricing and deposit policy, the merchant account question, and how to run the money through a business account.
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License, LLC, EIN
How to Start a Permanent Makeup Business in Florida: License, LLC, Insurance
Permanent makeup is a tattoo business under Florida law. The Tattoo Artist license, the licensed establishment you must work in, the extra licenses if the studio is yours, and the LLC and EIN that should come first.
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Lash Extension (add-on)
Adding lashes to a license you already hold, and what home-based lash work Florida allows.
Money
Starting a Lash Business at Home in Florida: What Is Actually Allowed
Home lash studios are legal in Florida under one condition, and mobile lashes mostly are not. What the salon rule requires, the cheapest legal way to start, and how to bank a business built on fills and memberships.
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License, LLC, EIN
How to Start a Lash Business in Florida: License, LLC, EIN
Florida does not license lash artists separately, which changes everything: the license you already need, whether lashes are an add-on or a new business, and the LLC and EIN decisions that follow.
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