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This category includes hairdressers, beauty and nail salons, acupuncture, piercing and tattooists.

For more information, and to view health standards these businesses must follow, visit the NSW Health website.

If you’re setting up this type of business, read our Beauty and Skin Penetration Premises Construction, Fit-Out and Operation Guide PDF, 381.32 KB.

If you're running this type of business from home, you must follow the same rules that apply to commercial beauty and skin penetration premises. See our Home-Based Beauty Businesses page for more information.

Notify Council

You must notify Council before you start operating any beauty or skin penetration business.

To submit a notification, you must log in or register in our Online Self Service system. Please note, multi-factor authentication (MFA) will be required when logging into your account.

Once you are logged in, under Apply for..., select Permits or Licences then choose your business type in the drop-down menu.