Ruling on owning, renting and renting out beauty salons for women and the ruling on working in them
Question

                Is it permissible to own women’s salons or work in them?.
Praise be to Allah.
    In most cases women’s beauty salons are not 
    free of things that are contrary to sharee’ah. If they are free of these 
    things then it is permissible to own them, and it is permissible to work in 
    them. These things that are contrary to sharee’ah include: 

    1.Plucking the 
    eyebrows, tattooing the skin and adding hair extensions or wigs

    2.Using cosmetics that 
    contain chemicals that are harmful to the body

    3.Beautifying women 
    who make a wanton display of themselves (tabarruj) or women who wear hijab 
    but leave their faces uncovered. That is helping them in their sin of 
    tabarruj, and causing haraam adornment to appear on them before non-mahrams

    4.Looking at ‘awrahs 
    when removing hair from the ‘awrah or when dressing the bride in clothes 
    that are usually revealing

    5.Cutting or dyeing 
    the hair in ways that resemble kaafir or immoral women

    6.Using false nails or 
    false eyelashes

    7.Putting perfume with 
    enticing fragrances on adorned women

    8.Men putting makeup 
    on women! Which is an abhorrent evil

    There follow some fatwas of the Standing 
    Committee that have to do with the things mentioned above and warning 
    against them: 

    1.

    The scholars of the Standing Committee were 
    asked:

    Some women go to women’s salons where there 
    is a woman’s hairdresser, and this hairdresser shaves the unwanted hair of 
    other women, even the hair of the most private ‘awrah, especially before her 
    wedding night. The hairdresser also plucks the facial hair, and adds hair 
    extensions for those who want that. What is the ruling on this work? Please 
    advise us and explain the ruling to us, may Allaah reward you. 

    They replied: 

    Plucking means removing the hair of the 
    eyebrows. Hair extensions means adding hair to the hair on the head. Both of 
    them are major sins; the Prophet  (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon 
    him) cursed the one who does them or who does one of them. It is not 
    permissible to uncover the ‘awrah before anyone except the husband. Allaah 
    says (interpretation of the meaning): “And those who guard their chastity 
    (i.e. private parts, from illegal sexual acts)” [al-Mu’minoon 23:5].  
    Part of guarding one’s chastity is the obligation to cover the ‘awrah and 
    the prohibition on looking at it, except for the one to whom Allaah has 
    permitted that, or in cases of necessity such as medical treatment which 
    cannot be administered except by uncovering it for that purpose. 

    Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz, Shaykh ‘Abd 
    al-‘Azeez Aal al-Shaykh, Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Ghadyaan, Shaykh Saalih 
    al-Fawzaan, Shaykh Bakr Abu Zaid. 

    Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah 
    (17/131, 132) 

    2.

    The scholars of the Standing Committee said:

    It is not permissible to use artificial 
    nails, false eyelashes and coloured contact lenses, because it is harmful to 
    the part of the body where they are used and because it also involves deceit 
    and trickery, and is changing the creation of Allaah. 

    Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez Aal al-Shaykh, Shaykh 
    ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Ghadyaan, Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan, Shaykh Bakr Abu Zaid. 

    Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah 
    (17/133) 

    3.

    They also said: 

    There is no reason why a woman should not 
    adorn herself by putting makeup on her face and kohl, and fixing her hair, 
    in ways that do not resemble kaafir women. It is also stipulated that she 
    should cover her face before men who are not her mahrams. 

    Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz, Shaykh ‘Abd 
    al-‘Azeez Aal al-Shaykh, Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Ghadyaan, Shaykh Saalih 
    al-Fawzaan, Shaykh Bakr Abu Zaid. 

    Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah 
    (17/129) 

    4.

    They also said: 

    The basic principle is that it is not 
    permissible for a woman to wear perfume that has a fragrant smell if she 
    wants to go out of her house, whether she is going out to the mosque, or 
    elsewhere, because of the general meaning of the words of the Prophet  
    (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him): “Any woman who puts on perfume 
    and goes out and passes by people so that they can smell her fragrance is a 
    zaaniyah (adulteress) and every eye is zaaniyah (because it looks at haraam 
    things).” Narrated by Ahmad, al-Nasaa’i and al-Haakim from the hadeeth of 
    Abu Moosa (may Allaah be pleased with him). 

    Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azeez ibn Baaz, Shaykh ‘Abd 
    al-Razzaaq ‘Afeefi, Shaykh ‘Abd-Allaah ibn Qa’ood. 

    Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah 
    (17/124, 125) 

    If the beauty salons are free of these 
    things that are contrary to sharee’ah, then it is permissible to own them, 
    or work in them. Otherwise it is haraam to own them or rent them or rent 
    them out, and it is haraam to work in them. 

    And Allaah knows best.