Texas Cosmetology Esthetician license lookup — free

A Cosmetology Esthetician license covers skincare and facial specialists — the technicians performing facials, skin treatments, and related services in spas and salons. It falls under TDLR's unified Barbering & Cosmetology program, which means the renewal process, deadlines, and continuing-education rules are shared with operators, manicurists, and the program's other individual license types. Spa owners and clients rely on this license number to confirm the esthetician performing a treatment is actually authorized to do so. A lapsed license means that person can't legally work on a client until it's renewed, regardless of how experienced they are.

Estheticians renew every two years and complete the same 4-hour continuing education requirement as the rest of the program — 1 hour sanitation, 1 hour human trafficking awareness, and 2 elective hours, which drop away once the license has been held 15 years or more, leaving just 2 hours total. TDLR confirms its standard tiered late-renewal fee structure for the sibling establishment license under this program, but doesn't separately spell out the individual esthetician's exact late fee — check the official renewal page before relying on a specific dollar figure. Once the license expires, the esthetician can't legally perform services again until it's renewed.