Wales licenses acupuncture, body piercing including ear piercing, electrolysis and tattooing including semi-permanent make-up and microblading. In Cardiff a practitioner licence costs £159 plus a £44 compliance fee and lasts three years, and premises need their own approval certificate. Salongram keeps the diary, client notes and payment records for the salon.
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Salongram is a free salon booking app for Cardiff salons and barbershops: appointments, clients, staff hours and WhatsApp reminders in one app for Android and iPhone.
Two licences, not one. The person who pierces needs a special procedure licence, and the salon needs an approval certificate for its premises, both from Cardiff Council and both lasting three years. A new starter cannot begin until the council has processed the application.
The Welsh Government's scheme is compulsory for acupuncture including dry needling, body piercing including ear piercing, electrolysis, and tattooing including semi-permanent make-up and microblading. Each practitioner applies to their local authority for a licence.
Anyone responsible for premises or a vehicle used for these procedures applies for an approval certificate. New starters need both and cannot start work until the local authority has finished processing. Licences are displayed at the main workplace or worn as a lanyard.
Cardiff Council charges £159 on application for a practitioner licence, plus a £44 compliance fee once granted. A premises or vehicle approval certificate costs £244 on application plus £141 once granted. Both are valid for three years.
Cardiff Council says practitioners must hold a Level 2 Award in Infection Prevention and Control for special procedures before applying. Applications go by post to Licensing at County Hall, Atlantic Wharf, or by email.
The Special Procedure Licences (Wales) Regulations 2024 came into force on 29 November 2024. An applicant must be 18 or over, hold the regulated Level 2 Award, and show knowledge of infection control and first aid in an application interview.
A salon may have one licensed piercer among several stylists. Link ear piercing only to that person in Salongram, so the service is not offered with anyone else.
New starters in Wales cannot pierce until the council has processed their application. Leave piercing off your service list until then, and keep booking hair and nails as usual.
Cardiff's licence and certificate both last three years. Salongram does not track licence dates, so block an hour in your own column well before renewal as a reminder.
Write the piercing date and any aftercare given in the client's notes, so whoever sees them next can check the history first.
A salon offering several kinds of service needs one view of the day. Each service has its own length and price, and every booking sits with the person doing it.
We found no official data on how Cardiff clients book piercing or salon treatments, so this guide does not guess. What Salongram does is keep calls, walk-ins and link requests in one diary per person, and it shows a warning for an overlap, so you decide whether to go ahead.
Each team member is linked to the services they are trained for, so a booking for ear piercing lands with the licensed piercer.
StaffEach record keeps past visits, usual services and your notes, searchable by name or phone number.
Client recordsShare your booking link or QR code. A client picks a service and a free time, and nothing is booked until you accept it.
The booking linkAn illustrative Saturday, not research: a salon in Canton with the owner doing hair, a nail technician, and a beauty therapist who holds the special procedure licence for ear piercing.
The owner opens the diary: the therapist has two ear piercings booked in the morning, and the nail technician has a gap at eleven.
A client asks at the desk about ear piercing for later. The owner books it into the therapist's column, the only one linked to that service.
A gel manicure cancels, and the waiting list shows a client who asked for Saturday afternoon; the owner books her in.
Two link requests for Tuesday arrive, one for a cut and one for a piercing. The owner checks each person's hours and accepts both.
Type in your own numbers. A no-show is a slot nobody else could take; reminders and a waiting list are how most salons win part of it back.
An estimate from the numbers you enter (a month counted as 4.33 weeks). Nothing is sent or stored. Salongram is free to download.
Add ear piercing as its own service and link it only to the licensed practitioner. Add hair and nail services for the rest of the team.
Give each person their working days, hours, breaks and time off, including the piercer's own days.
Create the optional account to get your link and QR code, then put it on your socials, Google listing and window.
Yes. The Welsh Government's special procedures scheme covers body piercing including ear piercing. The practitioner needs a licence and the premises an approval certificate, both from Cardiff Council. Salongram does not handle licences.
Cardiff Council lists £159 on application plus a £44 compliance fee for a practitioner licence, and £244 plus £141 for a premises or vehicle approval certificate. Both are valid for three years.
Salongram is free on Android and iPhone. It keeps a diary per person, links each service to the staff trained for it, and records payments. WhatsApp reminders are prepared in English for you to send, and it does not take deposits.
The Welsh Government lists tattooing including semi-permanent make-up and microblading among special procedures, so the practitioner needs a licence and the premises an approval certificate from the local authority.
Yes, once the piercer is licensed and the premises hold an approval certificate. Cardiff Council says practitioners need a Level 2 Award in Infection Prevention and Control before applying. In Salongram, link ear piercing only to the licensed person; link bookings arrive as requests you accept.
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