Name: Board for Barbers and Cosmetology. Purpose: To regulate the practice of cosmetology and related professions in the state of Virginia. The bulk of their work concerns issuing and revoking licenses to work as barbers, cosmetologists, tattoo artists and other professions. The board signs off on a couple dozen new licenses, almost entirely going to current or former prison inmates. Quesenberry says almost all were obtained fraudulently – cases of someone paying someone else to take the state exam for them.