Prepare for the Texas Cosmetology license exam with these practice questions and answers. This covers TDLR requirements, sanitation, and cosmetology procedures.
Q: Wet
Answer: When razor cutting it is recommended that the hair be cut?
Q: Dry
Answer: When cutting extremely curly hair it is recommended that the hair be cut?
Q: Dry after straightening
Answer: When cutting kinky hair, it is recommended the hair be cut?
Q: Food and Drug Administration
Answer: Which governmental agency mandates the use of a P.D. Test prior to using aniline derivative tints?
Q: Orange; Blue
Answer: Clients hair has lightened to a Level 6, what is the exposed underlying pigment color and what is the correct toner shade to achieve a neutral color?
Q: Below your fingers
Answer: When giving a scissor haircut, the guideline is generally?
Q: Density
Answer: The amount of hair on a person’s head is referred to as?
Q: Poor Porosity
Answer: Hair with its cuticle in place and tightly closed is said to have?
Q: Head Lice
Answer: Pediculosis Capitis is?
Q: Hair will be shorter
Answer: In the “shears-over-comb” technique, if the comb is held at an angle, the
Q: Dry Skin
Answer: The red dermal light is used to treat?
Q: Croquignole curling
Answer: When using a hot iron, curling the hair from the ends towards the scalp is referred to as
Q: On Base
Answer: What type of roller set (wet set) placement would create the most volume?
Q: Open End
Answer: In a pin-curl set, the clippies are inserted at the
Q: pH
Answer: The concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution is known as
Q: Outer Edge
Answer: The perimeter of the haircut is found at the
Q: Horizontal
Answer: Which of the following lines would be used to add weight/ volume in a haircut?
Q: Clubbed
Answer: Which of the following is not a term used when referring to human hair wigs?
Q: Hyponychium
Answer: The tissue beneath the Free Edge of the nail is known as
Q: Build Weight
Answer: In hair cutting, angles below 90 degrees are used to primarily to
Q: Stationary
Answer: This type of guideline is used when you want to create a gradual increase in weight or length.
Q: Violet Ray
Answer: Another name for Telsa (high frequency) current is?
Q: Above Your Fingers
Answer: When giving a razor haircut, the guideline is generally?
Q: Human hair with the cuticle intact.
Answer: Remy hair is?
Q: Guanidine
Answer: The type of relaxer is usually advertised as a “No-Lye” and marketed for “Sensitive Scalps”
Q: Sodium
Answer: Most relaxers on the market contain?
Q: The application of individual lashes.
Answer: Eye Tabbing involves?
Q: Removes less hair than with “Single-Notch” shears
Answer: When cutting hair using “Double-Notched” thinning shears, what will be the result?
Q: Interior
Answer: In hair cutting, the area above the parietal crest is referred to as the?
Q: Cap Wig
Answer: A “hand-tied” or “hand-knotted” wig is a?
Q: Lantionization
Answer: Process where the Sodium Hydroxide Relaxer removes one atom of sulphur from the disulphide bond?
Q: Barber Comb
Answer: The “shear-over-comb” method usually employs this type of comb?
Q: Coat the cuticle
Answer: What is the effect of “Certified Colors” on the hair shaft?
Q: Capless Wig
Answer: A “weft” will be found in a?
Q: Hair with cuticle “turned” in one direction
Answer: Turned Hair is?
Q: Have a lower pH than most thio relaxers.
Answer: All of the following are true of Guanidine Relaxers except
Q: Below 7
Answer: Neutralizers, Stabilizers, and Fixatives all tend to fall where on the pH scale?
Q: Vellus hair has little or no pigment.
Answer: Vellus hair can be distinguished from lanugo hair, because
Q: Barba
Answer: The hair found on a man’s face is referred to as
Q: Capless Wigs
Answer: Machine made wigs are?
Q: Synthetic hair wigs
Answer: Can not be thermal styled or wet set.
Q: EPA
Answer: This agency approves and regulates the efficacy of products used for disinfection.
Q: Violet Toner
Answer: Client’s hair has been lightened to pale yellow, client wants it neutral (no warm or ash tones, use
Q: Green
Answer: The even mixture of blue and yellow makes?
Q: No stem
Answer: Which of the following pin-curl sets will create the MOST volume?
Q: Half Stem
Answer: Which of the following pin-curl sets will create the LEAST volume?
Q: On Base
Answer: Which of the following roller-sets will create the MOST volume
Q: Eponychium
Answer: The point where the nail enters the skin at the nail base is referred to as the?
Q: Green
Answer: Client’s hair has lightened to palest yellow, stylist applies a blue toner. What is the result?
Q: Sanitize Hands
Answer: What should be done before each client?
Q: Powdered allum
Answer: What do use on your client if they are bleeding?
Q: Balancing
Answer: What kind of shampoo is used on oily hair?
Q: After each use
Answer: When should you clean the neck on the shampoo bowl?
Q: Protein Conditioner
Answer: What do you use to increase the diameter of the hair?
Q: Long Layers
Answer: A 180 degree haircut will give you?
Q: Barrel
Answer: All belong to a pin curl except?
Q: S-Shape
Answer: Either a finger wave or the shape you are looking for when you cold wave is an:
Q: True Acid Wave
Answer: What perm would you use on extreme porous hair?
Q: Minimal Swelling
Answer: What is the benefit for using a low pH perm?
Q: Scratch the scalp
Answer: What should you NOT do while shampooing if a client is getting a chemical service?
Q: You are a threat to public.
Answer: Why could your license be suspended?
Q: Mail in an application.
Answer: How do you renew your license?
Q: 150
Answer: How many hours do you need before working on a client in a secondary education school?
Q: 250
Answer: How many hours do you need before working on a client in a public beauty school?
Q: Gray Hair
Answer: What would you use a double process color on?
Q: Diffuser
Answer: When using a dryer, the tool that would give you a curly look is a?
Q: Fusion
Answer: Which method is best for putting extensions in finer hair?
Q: Fissure
Answer: What is a crack in the skin that penetrates the dermis? ie: chapped lips or hands
Q: Hair loss
Answer: The main reason a client desires a wig is because they are experiencing?
Q: Corn Rows
Answer: A three strand, underhand braid on the scalp.
Q: Cause breakage.
Answer: Hair braided when wet can?
Q: Layer it
Answer: To take bulk out of a wig you must?
Q: Bleach
Answer: Linens should be cleaned with?
Q: Bleach
Answer: Clean floors with?
Q: Dissolve the acrylic.
Answer: Acetone on acrylic nails will?
Q: Leukonychia
Answer: White spots on the nail caused by damage to the base of the nail.
Q: Blue nails
Answer: You can still give a manicure to a client that has?
Q: Secondary Color
Answer: What do you get when you mix two primary colors together?
Q: Tetanus
Answer: Bacilli bacteria can cause?
Q: Red
Answer: Pyogenic granuloma is what color?
Q: Cold Wave
Answer: Another name for an alkaline wave is?
Q: Disulfide
Answer: What side bonds are broken when giving a perm?
Q: Hydrogen
Answer: Which side bonds are broken during a wet set?
Q: Half-inch
Answer: How many inches away from the scalp do you start applying a virgin hydroxide relaxer?
Q: Medulla
Answer: Which of the following are part of the hair shaft? Medulla or Follicle?
Q: Temporary
Answer: Which color process does not make a chemical change in the hair?
Q: Off the scalp
Answer: Powdered lighteners are used?
Q: Tweezing
Answer: A licensed facialist can perform?
Q: Darkness
Answer: Level is the measurement use to identify?
Q: Lowlighting
Answer: Adding darker strands to the hair is called?
Q: 50%
Answer: What percent can wet hair with normal elasticity stretch to?
Q: Resistant
Answer: A high pH perm is used for which type of hair?
Q: Long hair
Answer: A piggyback perm is used on?
Q: Wide Tooth
Answer: What type of comb is used to detangle wet hair?
Q: Chemical Change
Answer: The cortex is where what change takes place?
Q: Wet
Answer: The hair should be ___ when you use a razor?
Q: Epidermis
Answer: The outer layer of the skin
Q: Nonpathogenic
Answer: Which bacteria is harmless?
Q: Sterilization
Answer: How are spores killed?
Q: Tinea Pedis
Answer: Ringworm of the foot.
Q: Tinea Ungium
Answer: A ringworm of the nail.
Q: Steatoma
Answer: A sebaceous cyst or fatty tumor.
Q: 17
Answer: At what age do you have to be to get a license?
Q: TDLR
Answer: To change your salon address who do you notify?
Q: Felony
Answer: To practice cosmetology without a license is a what?
Q: Workstation
Answer: Where does your license need to be displayed at?
Q: $1000; Do not have sterilized equipment.
Answer: TDLR can revoke a salon license and charge ___ if they ___.
Q: They are licensed in a state that has the same requirements as Texas.
Answer: If a cosmetologist from another state wants to obtain a Texas license, they will have to a pay fee and show proof ___.
Q: Clean nails
Answer: What is the first step for gel nails with a UV light?
Q: Buff nails
Answer: What is the first step for nails with tips?
Q: Leukonchyia
Answer: What does a client have if they have white spots on their nails?
Q: Nail is black in color.
Answer: What is a sign of an advance stage nail infected with bacteria?
Q: To see a doctor.
Answer: What do you ask the client if they have athletes foot?
Q: Square center and oval edges.
Answer: What is a squoval nail shape?
Q: Foot file
Answer: What is used to remove callus?
Q: Razor
Answer: What kind of foot file should you never use?
Q: Emery boards
Answer: What should you throw away after a nail service?
Q: Cleaned and swept after each client.
Answer: What do you do with all dust and debris and hair on the floor?
Q: Sodium Hypochlorite
Answer: What disinfectant is acceptable in a salon?
Q: Quats
Answer: What do you disinfect salon equipment and countertops with?
Q: Clean with soap and water then disinfected.
Answer: Implements that are solid but did not come into contact with blood or bodily fluids must be what?
Q: Cleaned then sterilized in an autoclave.
Answer: Metal or non-porous implements that come into contact with blood or bodily fluid must be what?
Q: Double bagged and discarded in a bio hazard container.
Answer: Porous implements that come into contact with blood or bodily fluids must be what?
Q: 5%
Answer: What is the maximum stretch of normal dry hair?
Q: Uniform layer haircut
Answer: Traveling guideline creates a what?
Q: Attachment for a blow dryer.
Answer: What is a diffuser?
Q: Client has lotion on face that contains alcohols.
Answer: High frequency telsa electrical current machine can not be used if the ___?
Q: Hydrogen Bonds
Answer: In a wet set what bonds are broken?
Q: Cortex Layer
Answer: Where do you the chemical changes occur?
Q: Cream Conditioner
Answer: What should you apply to hair if hair is chemically damaged?
Q: Occupational Safety and Health Administration: A federal agency that regulates and investigates safety and health standards in work locations.
Answer: What does OSHA stand for and what is it?
Q: Universal Precautions
Answer: Set of Guidelines and controls. Published by the centers for disease control and prevention (CDC), that require the employer and the employee to assume that all human blood and specified human bodily fluids are infections for HIV, HBV, and other bloodborne pathogens
Q: Enviornmental Protection Agency: gives licenses to certain disinfectants. Two types used in salon; Hospital and Tuberculocidal
Answer: EPA
Q: 1. Sanitation (lowest) – removing cisible dirt or debris.2. Disinfection – the process that kills most but not all microorganisms.3. Sterilization (highest) – complete elimination of all microbial life.
Answer: 3 Steps of Decontamination
Q: All implements must be thoroughly cleaned of all visible matter or residue before soaking in disinfectant. Use caution when using a disinfectant so that it does not get on skin.
Answer: Proper Use of Disinfectants
Q: Pathogens
Answer: Certain viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi that can cause disease.
Q: Shampooing
Answer: Selecting a shampoo according to the condition of the clients hair and scalp.
Q: Conditioning
Answer: Help restore and give it body, or to protect against possible breakage.
Q: Scalp Massage
Answer: Involves manipulations performed on the scalp to relax the muscles and stimulates blood circulation and helps relax the client.
Q: Client Consultation
Answer: Verbal communication with a client to determine desired results.
Q: Safety in Haircutting
Answer: -Always palm shears/ razor when combing and parting the hair.-Do not cut past the second knuckle when cutting below your fingers-Take big precautions when performing short haircuts or cutting around the ears. Cuts on ears can produce a lot of blood.-When cutting close to the skin, balance shears by placing the tip of the index finger of your left hand on the pivot screw and knuckles of your left hand against the skin. Prevents clients from being accidentally poked with shears if moved.-When working with razor, learn with guard.-Take extra care when removing and disposing of the razor blade. Place in its original sleeve, or wrap it in a a paper towel to prevent others from getting hurt.
Q: Bruised Nails
Answer: A blot clot formed under the nail.
Q: Eggshell Nails
Answer: Have a thin nail plate and more flexible than normal. (It is safe to perform services on.)
Q: Beau’s Lines
Answer: Depressions running across the width of the natural nail plate.
Q: Hangnails (Agnail)
Answer: A condition of the skin around the nail plate that splits and tears. Splitting of the cuticle.
Q: Leukonchyia
Answer: White Spots or white discoloration of the nail plate.
Q: Melanonychia
Answer: Darkening of the nails.
Q: Onchyophagy
Answer: Bitten Nails (Can be worked on in the salon)
Q: Onychorrhexis
Answer: Split or Brittle nails. Lengthwise ridges on the nail plate
Q: Pterygium
Answer: Condition that occurs when the skin is stretched by the nail plate. (Do Not Treat!)
Q: Ridges
Answer: Vertical lines and uneven growth of the nails. Usually a result of illness, injury, or normal aging. (Careful buffing and ridge filler will help.)
Q: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Answer: Caused by lifting artificial nails. Discoloration is usually a bacteria infection between the nail plate and artificial nail. Not caused by moisture but a number of bacteria.
Q: Fungi
Answer: Parasites
Q: Onychosis
Answer: Any deformity or disease of the natural nail.
Q: Onycholysis
Answer: Inflammation of the natural nail.
Q: Onychomadesis
Answer: Common symptom is shedding of the nail.
Q: Paronychia
Answer: Bacterial inflammation of the tissue surrounding the nail.
Q: Pyogenic granuloma
Answer: Severe inflammation of the nail in which a lump of red tissue grows up from the nail bed to the nail plate.
Q: Tinea Pedis
Answer: Medical term for fungal infection of the feet. Red itchy patches of the skin on the bottom of the feet and between the toes.
Q: OSHA
Answer: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Q: MSDS
Answer: Material Safety Data Sheets
Q: Sanitation
Answer: Chemical process for reducing the number of disease causing germs on clean surfaces to a safe level.
Q: Disinfection
Answer: Chemical products that destroy all bacteria, fungi, and viruses on surfaces. But not the spores. A level of decontamination which is second only to sterilization.
Q: Completely submerged in disinfectant.
Answer: To disinfect tools they must be?
Q: Sterilization
Answer: Process that completely destroys all microbial spores.
Q: Pathogenic
Answer: Harmful microorganism. Causes disease and infection. Invades the body.
Q: Nonpathogenic
Answer: Harmless organisms that perform useful functions. Do not cause disease.
Q: Binary fission
Answer: When bacteria get big they divide into two new cells.
Q: Cocci
Answer: Round shaped bacteria.
Q: Staphylococci
Answer: Clusters or bunches like grapes. Cause abscesses, pustules, boils, staph, toxic shock syndrome, and food poisoning.
Q: Streptococci
Answer: String, like beads. Strep, blood poisoning, pus forming.
Q: Diplococci
Answer: Pair. Pneumonia
Q: Bacilla
Answer: Rod shaped. Tetanus (lock jaw) typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria.
Q: Spirilla
Answer: Spiral (corkscrew). Syphilis STD Lyme disease
Q: Pimple; Abscess
Answer: A local infection such as a ___ or ___ is confined to a particular part of the body and appears as a lesion containing pus.
Q: Viruses
Answer: Parasitic submicroscopic particle that infects cells of biological organism.
Q: Viruses
Answer: Smaller then bacteria and capable of replication only through taking over the host cells reproduction function.
Q: Parasites
Answer: Organisms that grow, feed and shelter on or in another organism.
Q: Scabies
Answer: Contagious skin disease and is caused by the itch mite.
Q: Immunity
Answer: The ability of the body to destroy and resist infection.
Q: Natural Immunity
Answer: Partly inherited and partly developed through healthy living.
Q: Acquired Immunity
Answer: Body develops ___ after overcoming a disease through inoculation or exposure to natural allergens like pet dander, ragweed, pollen.
Q: Efficacy
Answer: Effectiveness with which a disinfecting solution kills organisms when used according to the label instructions.
Q: Quats
Answer: Quaternary ammonium compounds. Very effective when used properly in the salon.
Q: Sodium hypochlorite
Answer: House hold bleach. Can damage some metals and plastics. Read the label.
Q: Phenolic Disinfectant
Answer: Powerful tuberculocidal disinfectant forms a formaldehyde. Can also damage rubber and plastic.