Prepare for your Cosmetology license exam with these flashcard questions and answers. This guide covers hair structure, color theory, chemistry, and salon safety.
Q: Graduated layers.
Answer: A hair cut between 90 and 45 degrees?
Q: A tint back service
Answer: Going back to natural hair color?
Q: Epilator.
Answer: A sugar base wax is a form of a:
Q: Parietal ridge.
Answer: The widest area of the head is the ?
Q: Crack in the lip
Answer: Fissure?
Q: Green tint makeup
Answer: Covers redness in the face?
Q: Graduated/uniform layers
Answer: To remove bulk from a wig?
Q: 70% alcohol
Answer: To disinfect abrasive nail files and buffers?
Q: Bactericidal, fungicidal, and virucidal
Answer: A must be for disinfectants used in a salon?
Q: Used on oily hair
Answer: balancing shampoo?
Q: The well
Answer: The nail tip meets the free edge?
Q: The lightness or darkness of hair color
Answer: Level system?
Q: Thioglycolic acid
Answer: Main reducing agent or ingredient in an acid wave?
Q: Filler
Answer: To equalize the hair’s porosity and deposit a base color?
Q: Eumelanin
Answer: Black to brown color pigment?
Q: Towel, drape, towel
Answer: Draping for a chemical service?
Q: Leukonychia
Answer: White spots on the nail?
Q: Miliaria Rubra
Answer: Also known as prickly heat; an acute inflammatory disorder of the sweat glands?
Q: Pityriasis Capitis Steatoides
Answer: Scalp inflammation marked by fatty types of dandruff?
Q: Cortex
Answer: Middle layer of the hair?
Q: EPA disinfectant
Answer: Disinfectant left on counter tops for 10 minutes in a salon?
Q: On base
Answer: Base position used for most volume?
Q: Hydrogen
Answer: Bonds broken in a wet set?
Q: Nail plate
Answer: Visible part of the nail?
Q: After shaping the nail.
Answer: During a manicure, when do you soften the cuticles?
Q: On long hair
Answer: When performing a permanent wave when is the piggy-back technique useful?
Q: Toupee
Answer: Piece used to cover a bald spot on a man’s head?
Q: Dry, on the client’s head
Answer: How should you perform a full haircut on a wig?
Q: Lighteners
Answer: Chemical compounds that lighten the hair by dispersing, dissolving, and discolorizing artificial pigment from the hair?
Q: 2 daughter cells
Answer: How many cells are produced during mitosis and what are they called?
Q: Resistant, coarse hair
Answer: Highly alkaline permanent wave would be given on what hair type?
Q: Hair root
Answer: Follicle contains?
Q: The hair follicle.
Answer: Sebaceous glands are connected to?
Q: Cortex
Answer: All chemical changes take place in the
Q: Protective/base cream
Answer: Used to protect around the hairline when performing a chemical relaxer service?
Q: Razor
Answer: Tool used to give a soft effect in a haircut?
Q: 9
Answer: Number of sections in a basic perm?
Q: Sliding
Answer: When shampooing the hair, placing both hands on the head and sliding them to the back of the head is called?
Q: Nail wrap
Answer: Repair a damaged nail by?
Q: OSHA
Answer: Regulates all safety standards in a workplace?
Q: Overhand
Answer: The invisible braid uses?
Q: Single braid, free hanging
Answer: Another name for box braid
Q: Cornrows
Answer: Narrow rows of visible braids that lie close to the scalp?
Q: Comb technique or palm roll
Answer: How are locks created?
Q: Where hair porosity is greatest.
Answer: Portion of the hair that absorbs chemical wave solution faster?
Q: Fine.
Answer: If cuticle is slightly raised and accepts color products easily the hair is:
Q: Shears.
Answer: Which instrument should be used to slither a client’s hair?
Q: analysed and shampooed
Answer: Before giving a chemical wave, the hair should be:
Q: Add body and strength
Answer: Giving a conditioning treatment to damaged hair will do what?
Q: Sprilla
Answer: A coiled, corkscrew shaped bacteria cell that causes syphilis and cholera is:
Q: Diameter of the hair strand
Answer: What determines the texture of the hair?
Q: Coat the cuticle layer
Answer: If a temporary color rinse is applied to normal hair, it will?
Q: to avoid infection
Answer: Why is an antiseptic applied to tweezed areas during arching?
Q: Nail oil.
Answer: What type of manicure is suggested for dry cuticles and brittle nails?
Q: It helps even the porosity
Answer: Why is it necessary to use a conditioner-filler during a chemical relaxer retouch service?
Q: lunula
Answer: Nerves and Vessels are found in what part of the nail?
Q: Ridge
Answer: What is the peak of a finger wave?
Q: Expand
Answer: During the processing time in chemical waving, the hair will do what? (another word for swell)
Q: bones
Answer: What is made of cells, blood, calcium carbonate, and calcium phosphate?
Q: Chemical wave solution
Answer: Disulfide bonds are broken by the:
Q: Artificial pigment
Answer: What are tint removers designed to remove?
Q: Physician
Answer: A client with Onychomycosis(abnormal condition and fungal infection in the toe and finger nails) should be referred to a?
Q: Abrasions are present.
Answer: Scalp manipulations should not be performed if?
Q: Fine
Answer: The shortest processing time in chemical waving is usually required for hair which is?
Q: Dry
Answer: Frequent shampooing with highly alkaline shampoo may cause the hair to become what?
Q: A filler.
Answer: When tinting lightened hair back to it’s natural shade, it is necessary to add what?
Q: It forms the base of all horny tissue.
Answer: What is the function of Keratin?
Q: Apply a protective base.
Answer: What should be done to protect a sensitive scalp during a relaxer treatment?
Q: Create layers
Answer: High elevation in haircutting is used to?
Q: Alum powder.
Answer: What should be used to stop bleeding of a minor cut during a manicure?
Q: 10.5 to 11.5
Answer: What is the pH of Sodium Hydroxide?
Q: Emulsion
Answer: What is formed when 2 or more non-mixable substances are united with the help of a binder or gum-like substance?
Q: Hospital grade solution
Answer: Metal implements should be disinfected with what kind of solution?
Q: Tepid (or warm)
Answer: To remove lightener, hair should be rinsed in water that is _____ (temperature).
Q: Follicle
Answer: what is the tube-like pocket that contains the hair?
Q: Effleurage
Answer: What facial massage movement has a soothing and relaxing effect?
Q: Stem
Answer: The mobility of a pin curl is determined by the?
Q: Temporary rinses
Answer: What type of hair coloring is designed to last 4-6 shampoos?
Q: Keratin
Answer: Hair is primarily composed of:
Q: Antiseptic
Answer: A chemical compound used to slow the growth of bacteria is called?
Q: Protective cream
Answer: What protects the skin from irritation and stains around the hairline?
Q: Toner
Answer: Prelightening the hair is usually necessary when using a:
Q: New growth
Answer: A lightener retouch should FIRST be applied to:
Q: Sterilization
Answer: What is the most effective level of infection control?
Q: The lightener overlaps
Answer: In a lightener retouch, hair breakage may result if:
Q: Sodium hydroxide
Answer: What is the MAIN ingredient in a chemical hair relaxer?
Q: Match test
Answer: What test determines if a wig is made of human hair or synthetic fiber?
Q: Coarse and overly curly
Answer: What type of hair is MOST difficult to press?
Q: Myology
Answer: The science of nature, structure, function, and diseases of the muscles in called:
Q: Tinea Capitus
Answer: What condition would PREVENT a cosmetologist from preforming a service on a client?
Q: Cleaning
Answer: The first step in the decontamination process is called:
Q: Pigments
Answer: Liquid(s) and cream(s) forms of foundation are a mixture of water and oil with coloring agents called:
Q: Macule
Answer: A spot or discoloration of the skin, neither raised nor sunken, is a:
Q: Slithering
Answer: Thinning the hair using a sliding movement with the blades of the shear partially opened to reduce volume and create movement is called?
Q: Ethyl alcohol
Answer: A common volatile organic compound that evaporates quickly and is used in hair spray is:
Q: 30 inches
Answer: Infrared lamps used during hair treatments and to process hair color should be operated at a distance of at least:(inches)
Q: Blonde
Answer: In ancient Rome, Middle-class women colored their hair what color?
Q: Bang area
Answer: The area that begins at the apex and ends at the 4 corners and is located by placing a comb on the top of the head so that the middle of the comb is balanced is the:
Q: Lin
Answer: An imported wool fiber available in black or brown with a matte finish that is used in hair extensions is:
Q: Bold, dramatic accent
Answer: A single line of color, or series of repeated lines, creates a:
Q: undissolved
Answer: Suspensions differ from solutions. With that said, Suspensions contain particles that are:
Q: 1/2 inch away from the scalp
Answer: To avoid over processing and scalp irritation in a virgin relaxer application, start at least: