Wild 1
Perms and Relaxers
Haircutting
Color Theory
Wild 2
100

Where do hair and skin live on the pH scale?

4.5-5.5

100

True or false: Perming and relaxing breaks the disulfide bonds.

True

100

What implement is the most used in haircutting?

Shears

100

How do you make a tertiary color?

Equal parts of a primary and its adjacent secondary color

100

Melanin is found mainly in which part of the hair?

Cortex

200

The most important part of any service is:

The consultation

200

Sodium hydroxide relaxer should never be combined with color services that require:

Lightener/bleach

200

The area below the occipital is referred to as: 

Nape

200

Pheomelanin produces what colors in hair and skin?

Red to yellow

200

What does OSHA stand for?

Occupatonal Saftey and Health Administration

300

What is the technical name for the study of hair?

Trichology

300

What does the porosity of the har affect when working with a chemical relaxer?

Processing times

300

What hair cutting technique removes bulk without shortening the length?

Thinning or texturizing

300

A dimensional coloring technique that uses a darker color on selected strands is referred to as:

Lowlighting

300

A flat mat used to hold hair extension fibers during a hair addition service is known as a: 

Drawing board

400

What are other names for androgentic alopecia?

male or female type pattern baldness

400

Fine, medium, and coarse refers to:

Hairs texture

400

True or false: cutting vertically creates weight in a haircut.

False

400

Which color products are available to the public, but are discouraged?

Metallic and compound dyes

400

What is the highest level of decontamination and is not used in salons?

Sterilization

500

True or false: Non-Porus hair absorbs moisture quickly but loses it just as fast. 

False

500

Sodium hydroxide relaxers have an alkaline pH of

11.5-14

500

The outside of the haircut refers to:

The perimeter

500

What ingredient in permanent hair color is responsible for removing natural pigment and opening the cuticle?

Ammonia

500

What are the 4 stages of hair growth?

Anagen, Telegen, Cartagena, and Exogen

600

Hair is composed of 95% of what protein?

Keratin

600

What is the most likely cause of underprocessed hair?

Perm solution not left on long enough

600

A guideline that doesn’t move is a _____________ guideline. 

Stationary

600

This has to be done when going two or more levels darker

Hair filling

600

The hair shaft includes what 3 layers?

Cuticle, cortex, and medulla

700

What layer of skin is located below the dermal layer and composed of fatty and loose connective tissue?

Subcutaneous 

700

What perm causes minimal swelling and must be wrapped with firm, even tension?

Acid

700

The four basic forms are solid form, graduated form, increase-layered form, and:

Uniformly layered form

700
When doing a virgin lightener, why do we leave the product off the scalp?

Hair at the scalp will lighten faster due to the heat of the head

700

What is the top layer of our skin?

Epidermis

800

What decade made the perm a cultural icon with big volume and curls?

1980’s

800

Extreme breakage shortly after a relaxer service may be caused by:

Overprocessing 

800

The protruding bone below the crest area at the back of the head is the:

Occipital

800

What is the difference between an acidic vs. alkaline hair color?

Acidic - No lift. Alkaline - Can lift the hair
800

Pityriasis Capitis is the medical term for what scalp condition?

Dandruff

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