Prepare for the California Barber license exam with these practice questions and answers. This covers hair cutting, shaving, beard trimming, and sanitation procedures.
Q: What is a steatoma?
Answer: Sebaceous cyst of subcutaneous tumor filled with sebum
Q: The cause of acne vulgaris is
Answer: Chronic inflammation of hair follicles and associated sebaceous glands, 1. hormone associated increase in sebum production and excess keratin production block follicles, forming comedones
Q: What are levels of color
Answer: Lightness to darkness
Q: What is seborrhea?
Answer: Severe oiliness of the skin
Q: What is a subjective symptom found during a skin analysis?
Answer: Inflamed skin
Q: What are subjective symptoms?
Answer: A symptom apparent to the individual afflicted but not observable by others
Q: Acid-balanced shampoo
Answer: Shampoo that is balanced to the pH of skin and hair (4.5 to 5.5)
Q: Set of the shears
Answer: The manner in which the blades and shanks of the shears align with each other and are joined at the tension screw or rivet
Q: Highest form on decontamination
Answer: sterilization
Q: Tinea favosa
Answer: (tinea favus) fungal infection characterized by dry, sulfur-yellow, cup-like crusts on the scalp called scutula.
Q: Good skin has a balance of
Answer: Oil and water
Q: pH of temporary hair color
Answer: 3.5-4.5
Q: Natural pH of hair
Answer: 4.5-5.5
Q: Sinusoidal current is used during:
Answer: scalp and facial manipulations
Q: Sinusoidal current is
Answer: A smooth, repetitive alternating current; the most commonly used alternating current waveform, used in the high frequency machine and can produce heat.
Q: Four types of muscle tissue
Answer: epithelial, connective, muscle, nerve
Q: To hone is
Answer: to sharpen
Q: The aponeurosis is found on what part of the skull
Answer: top of the skull
Q: Stages of hair growth
Answer: anagen, catagen, telogen
Q: OSHA stands for
Answer: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Q: What does OSHA do?
Answer: Sets standards for a safe and healthy workplace.
Q: MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet)
Answer: Provides communication to workers regarding chemicals used in the office
Q: What is the shoulder of a blade?
Answer: back edge of the razor
Q: Your client has sensitive, irritated, chapped and blistered skin
Answer: Do not proceed with a shave
Q: What are the three layers of hair?
Answer: cuticle, cortex, medulla
Q: Alkaline solutions have a pH
Answer: between 7 and 14
Q: Acid solutions have a pH
Answer: below 7.0 (neutral)
Q: Alkaline solutions
Answer: Soften, swell the hair and open the cuticle
Q: What does a tail end of a surfactant do
Answer: attracts dirt and oil and repels water
Q: When do you not perform a face shave?
Answer: When cuts, abrasion, and rash are present
Q: Three types of nerves
Answer: sensory, motor, autonomic
Q: The grind of a razor refers to the shape of the:
Answer: blade
Q: What is the grind of the razor?
Answer: The shape of the blade after it has been ground There are 2 types of razor grinds: Concave and Wedge
Q: To avoid damage, massage should be directed
Answer: Towards the origin of the muscle.Origin fixed attached
Q: buccinator muscle
Answer: Thin, flat muscle of the cheek between the upper and lower jaw that compresses the cheeks and expels air between the lips.
Q: What bacteria grows in clusters that causes abcesses, pustules, and boils?
Answer: staphylococci
Q: Petrissage
Answer: Kneading movement performed by lifting, squeezing, and pressing the tissue with a light, firm pressure.
Q: What tendon connects the epicranius muscle
Answer: the epicranial aponeurosis
Q: What is used after a high frequency treatment?
Answer: Alcohol based toner
Q: Strand test
Answer: Determines how the hair will react to the color formula and how long the formula should be left on the hair.
Q: patch test
Answer: a test in which a substance is applied topically to the skin on a small piece of blotting paper or wet cloth
Q: How long before applying permanent hair color should you perform a P.D. test
Answer: 24-48 hours
Q: Name the types of cutting edges of the shears ?
Answer: Convex and beveled
Q: Blood spill procedure
Answer: -Put on gloves-Clean area with antiseptic-Apply bandage-Dispose of everything in double-bagged procedure, and place in trash (or sharps container if you work at a Dr’s office/hospital).
Q: What do you do if you cut someone during a service?
Answer: Stop the service, put on gloves, and treat the cut
Q: What bacteria causes disease of infection?
Answer: Pathogenic
Q: Blood borne pathogens
Answer: Disease-causing organisms transferred through contact with blood or other body fluids such as Hepatitis or HIV
Q: What is required for hospital grade disinfectant?
Answer: Effective against bacteria, fungi, and viruses
Q: Two types of immunity
Answer: natural and acquired
Q: EPA
Answer: Environmental Protection Agency
Q: Evironmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Answer: a governmental agency with environmental protection regulatory and enforcement authority
Q: Who regulates product safety?
Answer: EPA and state
Q: What is tinea?
Answer: Medical term for ringworm
Q: What chemicals do not mix?
Answer: Bleach and ammonia
Q: What is used to clean barber head rests, chairs, and hard surfaces?
Answer: EPA registered hospital grade disinfectant
Q: What happens when you mix aniline derivative and hydrogen peroxide
Answer: Oxidization
Q: Galvanic current
Answer: Constant and direct current, having a positive and negative pole, that produces chemical changes when it passes through the tissues and fluids of the body.
Q: What does galvanic current do for the skin?
Answer: Creates chemical desincrustation and ionic iontophoresis. Used to create a chemical reaction that emulsifies or liquefies sebum and debris
Q: What are universal precautions?
Answer: Treat all blood as if it’s contaminated
Q: What do you put on a cut?
Answer: Styptic powder
Q: Quatts
Answer: Quaternary ammonium compounds
Q: Amp
Answer: Measures the strength of an electric current
Q: Volt
Answer: Unit of electric pressure
Q: Watt
Answer: Unit of power
Q: What is alopecia?
Answer: Abnormal hair loss
Q: Ideal face shape
Answer: oval
Q: Reverse freehand
Answer: razor position and stroke used in 4 of the 14 basic shaving areas: Nos. 5, 10, 13, and 14
Q: What is the pigment of hair called
Answer: melanin
Q: Can’t be made by mixing colors
Answer: primary colors
Q: Secondary colors are
Answer: orange, green, violet
Q: The primary colors are:
Answer: red, yellow, blue
Q: Tertiary colors are
Answer: yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange, yellow-orange
Q: Pityriasis capitis simplex
Answer: Technical term for classic dandruff; characterized by scalp irritation, large flakes, and itchy scalp.
Q: Bulla
Answer: Large blister containing watery fluid
Q: Sepsis
Answer: Dangerous infection of the blood
Q: What do the colors of the barber pole represent?
Answer: Red-blood, blue-veins, white-bandages silver pan-catch blood
Q: What does acid do?
Answer: Close the hair
Q: What are sudoriferous glands?
Answer: sweat glands
Q: Histology
Answer: study of tissues and their structures
Q: Osteology
Answer: Study of bones
Q: Hyperdrosis
Answer: excessive sweating
Q: Three stages of matter
Answer: solid, liquid, gas
Q: Before sodium hydroxide processing hair should be analyzed for
Answer: Texture, elasticity, porosity
Q: How many bones make up the skull and face?
Answer: 14 bones
Q: What are the layers of skin?
Answer: Epidermis, dermis, subcutaneous
Q: Spirilla
Answer: Spiral or corkscrew-shaped bacteria that cause sexually transmitted diseases
Q: dermal papillae
Answer: a fingerlike projection of the dermis that may contain blood capillaries or Meissner corpuscles (of touch)
Q: arrector pili muscle
Answer: Causes hair to stand on end and goose bumps to appear
Q: The diameter of a single strand is called
Answer: Hair texture
Q: What is a conductor?
Answer: Any substance, material, or medium that conducts electricity
Q: Direct Current (DC)
Answer: Electric current that flows in only one direction
Q: Alternating Current (AC)
Answer: A flow of electric charge that regularly reverses its direction.
Q: Haircutting involves individualized and precise?
Answer: Designing, cutting, and shaping
Q: How do you apply color to mustache?
Answer: From nostrils down
Q: Inactive stage
Answer: or spore forming stage; coat themselves in wax-like outer shell and can be blown and not disturbed by heat, cold or disinfectants. When conditions are favorable they can become active again.
Q: Three levels of decontamination
Answer: Sanitation, disinfection, sterilization
Q: What is alopecia senilis?
Answer: Loss of hair at old age
Q: How many bones are in the human body?
Answer: 206
Q: Hair is composed of
Answer: 90% protein
Q: A.B. Moler
Answer: wrote the first barbering textbook; opened the first barber school in Chicago in 1893
Q: Journeymen Barbers
Answer: Barber employee union
Q: tonsure
Answer: A shaved patch on the crown of the head
Q: Cocci
Answer: Round shaped bacteria that appear singly or in groups
Q: Dipolcocci
Answer: Round shaped that cause disease such as pneumonia
Q: Fungi
Answer: Plant-like organisms (molds and yeasts) that can cause infection such as ringworm
Q: Human disease carrier
Answer: A person who is immune to a disease, but harbors germs that can infect other people
Q: Parasites
Answer: An organism that lives in or on another organism, deriving nourishment at the expense of its host, usually without killing it
Q: Pus
Answer: A fluid that contains white blood cells
Q: Scabies
Answer: Contagious skin disease transmitted by the itch mite
Q: Solute
Answer: A substance that is dissolved in a solvent
Q: Orbicularis
Answer: Muscle surrounding the eye
Q: Corrugator
Answer: a pyramid-shaped muscle of facial expression which draws the eyebrows and raises forehead
Q: Risorius muscle
Answer: Muscle of the mouth that draws the corner of the mouth out and back, as in grinning.
Q: Supinator muscle
Answer: Turns the forearm and hand outward so the palm faces upward
Q: Sensory nerves
Answer: carry messages to the brain & spinal cord from a receptor; afferent nerves
Q: Motor nerves
Answer: Controls movement; efferent nerves
Q: What part of the fingers should you to shampoo and massage the scalp?
Answer: Cushion of the fingers
Q: How does a barber clean a hone?
Answer: Water and pumice stone
Q: What lesions should barbers be aware of?
Answer: Primary and secondary
Q: What is the pH of conditioner?
Answer: 3.5-5.5
Q: What is the characteristic of low porosity?
Answer: Absorbs less moisture
Q: A client has red-violet hair and wants a natural brown, what color should you use to neutralize the unwanted tone?
Answer: green-yellow
Q: What area should you apply relaxing cream to first?
Answer: Most resistant area
Q: Where should you hold a razor when changing out the blade?
Answer: Shank
Q: Acne is a disorder of what gland?
Answer: Sebaceous gland
Q: During a facial treatment what part of a client should be covered?
Answer: Clothing and hair
Q: Microbiology is
Answer: The study of microorganisms
Q: What is the method used when the hair at the crown is longer than at the nape?
Answer: Tapering
Q: In a chemical waving service, how do you apply the solution?
Answer: Crown to nape
Q: If you spot dry patches of skin prior to a facial treatment, what type of service do you recommend?
Answer: Exfoliant conditioning
Q: What should you do to hair that is dry and brittle before a hair color service?
Answer: Hair conditioner
Q: What style of mustache would you do for a client that has very small lips?
Answer: Small, medium mustache
Q: Prior to a shave, how should you sanitize the headrest?
Answer: Disinfect and cover
Q: What protects the brain?
Answer: Cranium
Q: What parts of the face consists of the t-zone?
Answer: Forehead, nose and chin
Q: What is the texture of a hair strand?
Answer: Diameter of the hair
Q: How to do make long necks appear shorter?
Answer: Hair that is left longer, fuller at the nape
Q: What are the secondary colors?
Answer: orange, green, violet
Q: Blood borne pathogens
Answer: Disease-causing organisms transferred through contact with blood or other body fluids
Q: What percentage of alcohol may be used to disinfect?
Answer: 70%
Q: Trichology
Answer: Scientific study of hair and its diseases and care.
Q: Polypeptide chains are
Answer: A chain of amino acids linked together by peptide bonds.
Q: Three type of side bonds
Answer: Hyrogen, salt, and disulfide bonds
Q: Density
Answer: The amount of hair per square inch of scalp
Q: What is ammonium thioglycolate (ATG)?
Answer: The main active ingredient or reducing agent in alkaline
Q: What is glyceral monothioglycolate (GMTG)?
Answer: The main active ingredient in true acid + acid balanced waves
Q: Soft water is
Answer: best for a barbershop
Q: What are the three types of infrared light?
Answer: White, red, and blue
Q: What do antiseptics do?
Answer: kill microorganisms in the environment
Q: An applicator used to direct electric current from a machine to the client’s skin is a(n):
Answer: Electrode
Q: Clippers have a cutting blade and a
Answer: Still blade
Q: Pediculosis is caused by:
Answer: head lice
Q: immunity
Answer: the ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin by the action of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells.