The Colour Wheel
What are the primary colours?
Blue, Red and Yellow
What is the outer most part of the hair strand
the cuticle
What is the name of the test that is performed on a client 24-48 hours before you perform a colour service?
A Patch Test
What are the 4 types of colour you will find in a salon?
Temporary, Semi-permanent, Demi-permanent, Permanent
There are 3 types of highlight techniques, one is slicing, what are the other two?
Babylights and weaving
What are the secondary colours?
Orange, Violet and Green
What part of the hair strand do permanent colour molecules enter
The Cortex
What is the first important step in the hair colouring process. It is when you'll learn the most about your clients hair and their hair habits
Client Consultation
Which type of colour (temporary, semi, demi, or permanent) has the largest colour molecules?
Temporary
What is the name of the product that can be added to lightener or colour to help repair the hairs bonds that are in the cortex?
They also have a line of take home products you can sell to your clients
Olaplex
What colour is complementary to blue
Orange
____________ is determined by the diameter of a single hair strand
Texture
If you are unsure of how the hair will take colour or lightening, you can perform this test before continuing with the colour service.
Preliminary Strand Test
What must permanent hair colour be mixed with in order to colour the hair
peroxide/developer
You can use any volume of peroxide/developer when using a lightener depending on how healthy your client hair is. True or False
True
What tertiary is made by mixing yellow and green?
Yellow-Green
How is hair density measured?
The numbers of hairs per square inch on the head
Name 2 items you need to perform a highlighting service
comb, brush, colour bowl, clips, colour or lightener, foil, highlighting board, chemical service cape, towel, developer
What is the main difference between Ombre and Balayage?
Ombre uses foil and can lift more levels while balayage is a free hand painting technique and only lifts 1 to 2 levels
If you lighten the hair to a pale yellow on the 10 degrees of decolorization scale, what level (from 1-10) have you achieved?
Level 10
What is the Law of Colour
A system to understand colour relationships, when combining colours you will always have the same results with the same combinations.
What are the two types of melanin that are found in the cortex?
Eumelanin and pheomelanin
What is one question you should ask during a client consultation?
•What services/at home hair treatments have you had done? (hair history)
•How do you wear your hair?
•Where do you part your hair?
•What are you hoping to achieve with this service?
And more....
Name a potential negative effect that highlighting can have.
•Highlights can cause breakage
•Products can cause irritation and/or a reaction
•The product used for the highlights can have a negative reaction with a product that is already in the hair
What happens to the natural melanin in the hairs cortex during the lightening process?
It is defused