Where do hair and skin live on the pH scale?
4.5-5.5
True or false: Perming and relaxing breaks the disulfide bonds.
True
What implement is the most used in haircutting?
Shears
How do you make a tertiary color?
Equal parts of a primary and its adjacent secondary color
Melanin is found mainly in which part of the hair?
Cortex
The most important part of any service is:
The consultation
Sodium hydroxide relaxer should never be combined with color services that require:
Lightener/bleach
The area below the occipital is referred to as:
Nape
Pheomelanin produces what colors in hair and skin?
Red to yellow
What does OSHA stand for?
Occupatonal Saftey and Health Administration
What is the technical name for the study of hair?
Trichology
What does the porosity of the har affect when working with a chemical relaxer?
Processing times
What hair cutting technique removes bulk without shortening the length?
Thinning or texturizing
A dimensional coloring technique that uses a darker color on selected strands is referred to as:
Lowlighting
A flat mat used to hold hair extension fibers during a hair addition service is known as a:
Drawing board
What are other names for androgentic alopecia?
male or female type pattern baldness
Fine, medium, and coarse refers to:
Hairs texture
True or false: cutting vertically creates weight in a haircut.
False
Which color products are available to the public, but are discouraged?
Metallic and compound dyes
What is the highest level of decontamination and is not used in salons?
Sterilization
True or false: Non-Porus hair absorbs moisture quickly but loses it just as fast.
False
Sodium hydroxide relaxers have an alkaline pH of
11.5-14
The outside of the haircut refers to:
The perimeter
What ingredient in permanent hair color is responsible for removing natural pigment and opening the cuticle?
Ammonia
What are the 4 stages of hair growth?
Anagen, Telegen, Cartagena, and Exogen
Hair is composed of 95% of what protein?
Keratin
What is the most likely cause of underprocessed hair?
Perm solution not left on long enough
A guideline that doesn’t move is a _____________ guideline.
Stationary
This has to be done when going two or more levels darker
Hair filling
The hair shaft includes what 3 layers?
Cuticle, cortex, and medulla
What layer of skin is located below the dermal layer and composed of fatty and loose connective tissue?
Subcutaneous
What perm causes minimal swelling and must be wrapped with firm, even tension?
Acid
The four basic forms are solid form, graduated form, increase-layered form, and:
Uniformly layered form
Hair at the scalp will lighten faster due to the heat of the head
What is the top layer of our skin?
Epidermis
What decade made the perm a cultural icon with big volume and curls?
1980’s
Extreme breakage shortly after a relaxer service may be caused by:
Overprocessing
The protruding bone below the crest area at the back of the head is the:
Occipital
What is the difference between an acidic vs. alkaline hair color?
Pityriasis Capitis is the medical term for what scalp condition?
Dandruff