Wyoming: Permanent Makeup & Nano Brows Regulation

Verified against official sources, 2026-07-16.

How can you check Nano Brows providers in Wyoming?

No online lookup located: As of 2026-07-16, we did not locate a public online lookup. You may ask the provider for the credential's name and issuing agency.

A lookup result reflects only the information shown by the issuing agency. Directory inclusion does not certify a provider's credentials or legal compliance.

Who regulates it

NO state licensing — pure LOCAL-OPTION county/city regulation under general public-health authority (W.S. 35-1-101 et seq.); the only state-level PMU-reaching law is the minors statute (W.S. 14-3-107). COSMETOLOGY COUNTER-LEAD DISCARDED with proof: the Cosmetology Act (W.S. 33-12-119 to -140) defines practice as hair/skin/nails beautification with no needle/pigment act, and the Board's live license-verification taxonomy contains NO tattoo/PMU/body-art category. A state tattoo-parlor scheme was PROPOSED AND DIED (SF0071/2007 — proven non-enacted: its target statute slot, W.S. 35-1-240(a)(xxii), today contains unrelated physician-recruitment content)

Does it cover permanent makeup / nano brows?

Coverage: explicitly-covered

State level: unaddressed except the minors statute (its tool-neutral tattoo definition reaches PMU; hand-tool nuance unresolved). COUNTY level: PMU NAMED expressly where programs exist — Cheyenne-Laramie County Board of Health regs: body art 'utilizing... tattooing, COSMETIC TATTOOING...' (medical-procedure + stud-earlobe exclusions; tattoo definition exempts physicians AND veterinarians in professional duties); Casper-Natrona County (live page): 'Body art is defined as tattoo, PERMANENT MAKEUP, and body piercing'; license required for 'permanent make-up artists, people who practice microblading'; draft regs: 'MICROPIGMENTATION (SMP) see TATTOOING'; Teton County: body art includes 'Permanent cosmetics'. Coverage enum reflects the county programs' express naming; the STATE-LEVEL near-absence is the entry's structural headline. Secondary claims that 'only Laramie County regulates' are WRONG (Natrona/Teton/Campbell confirmed) — discredited-lead flag.

Artist requirements

License required	No individual artist license at this level
Training	no state credential; COUNTY artist permits where adopted: Laramie County individual Body Artist Permit (annual, employer sign-off, hep-B/communicable-disease statements, BBP certification; may work only in licensed establishments; apprentices barred from under-18 patrons entirely); Casper-Natrona license for tattoo/PMU/microblading artists + apprentices requires passing a BODY ART SANITATION EXAM (BBP, hygiene, waste, equipment); Teton practitioner application (rules PDF image-scan — details unresolved); Cheyenne city: county-equivalent + city business license
Exam	county-level only (Casper-Natrona sanitation exam)
Bloodborne pathogen	county-level (Laramie BBP certification; Casper exam content)
Minimum age	no artist floor identified; CLIENTS: W.S. 14-3-107 — minors (under 18) require parental/guardian consent AND PHYSICAL PRESENCE at the procedure; enumerated-ID verification w/ reasonable-reliance defense; misdemeanor ≤6 months/$750; Laramie County adds: apprentices never work on minors; no genital/breast-area work on minors
Fee	county-variable (Campbell $50 parlor permit; Laramie/Natrona schedules unretrieved)
Renewal	county-variable (annual typical)

Facility requirements

License required	No
Inspection regime	no state establishment license; COUNTY programs: Laramie County establishment license (plan review + pre-opening inspection + annual renewal; special-event license ≤7 days; guest-artist permits ≤4/yr tied to a licensed event/establishment; standards: ≥100 sq ft procedure room, 1 hand sink per ≤3 artists, 240°F/15psi/30min steam sterilization + monthly spore tests, 2-yr records; misdemeanor enforcement via W.S. 35-1-106/-303); Casper-Natrona plan review + annual inspection ('2025 Rules for Tattoo & Body Art' — image PDF, text extraction queued); Teton establishment application (eff. 2019); Campbell County Tattoo Parlor Permit ($50, health-officer inspection); Cheyenne ch. 5.68 + City of Laramie (Albany Co) ch. 8.12 exist (Municode-gated, texts queued — note the Laramie County vs City of Laramie confusion trap)
Fee	county-variable
Renewal	county-variable (annual typical)

Local variation

County-level variation: Yes

Pure local option — no state floor beyond the minors statute; confirmed programs in 4 of 23 counties (Laramie/Cheyenne, Natrona/Casper, Teton/Jackson, Campbell/Gillette); remaining ~19 counties unconfirmed and plausibly unregulated (UNRESOLVED); NEHA Body Art Model Code used as a drafting template locally, not a state mandate.

Reciprocity

n/a state-level (no license; §33-12-132 endorsement covers cosmetology-family only — cannot reach PMU). County: no inter-county reciprocity found; Laramie County permits are jurisdiction-bound; guest-artist permits (≤4/yr, event/establishment-tied) are the only visiting mechanism.

Pending / recent changes

Active changes: None identified

No 2025 (general) / 2026 (budget) session bill on tattoo/PMU/body art found (wyoleg bill tables JS-gated — margins caveat); no Board of Cosmetology agenda item found (next meeting 2026-08-03). Historical: SF0071 (2007) died — the state has CONSIDERED and declined a licensing scheme. Casper-Natrona's amended body-art rules (Feb 2025) are CURRENT local law, not pending.

What this means before you book

Wyoming has no state license for PMU or tattooing — whether anyone checks on your artist depends on the county: Cheyenne/Laramie County licenses both studios and individual artists (with bloodborne-pathogen certification), Casper/Natrona County licenses permanent-makeup and microblading artists by name and makes them pass a sanitation exam, and Jackson/Teton and Gillette/Campbell run permit programs — but most of Wyoming's counties have no program at all. Statewide, minors need a parent or guardian present and consenting at the procedure. With no public register anywhere, ask the county health department — and the artist — directly.

Statutes & sources cited

W.S. 14-3-107 (performing body-art on minors; verbatim, current 2025 codification): body-art on a minor requires 'the consent of the person's parent or legal guardian WHO IS PRESENT at the time the body-art procedure is performed'; enumerated IDs prima facie; misdemeanor ≤6 months/$750; (c)(vi) 'Tattoo' = 'any indelible design... placed upon or under the skin with ink or colors, by the aid of needles or other instruments'; physician-supervised practices + stud-and-clasp earlobe piercing excluded
W.S. 33-12-119 to -140 (Cosmetology Act; §33-12-120(a)(v) practice definition; §33-12-140(c)-(d) exemptions incl. facial-makeup-only; §33-12-132 endorsement covers ONLY cosmetology-family licenses; §§33-12-101 to -118 repealed 1985 — pre-1985 scope UNRESOLVED, Idaho-style repeal check queued)
SF0071 (2007, 'Regulation of tattoo parlors' — would have added DOH power to regulate tattoo parlors/body art at W.S. 35-1-240(a)(xxii)): NEVER ENACTED (current statute text occupies the slot with unrelated content — documentary proof)