Theory
This is a predominant tone of a color
Base color
This is also known as bleaching or decolorizing; it is a chemical process involving a diffusion of the natural hair color pigment or artificial hair color from the hair
Hair Lightening
This is also known as boosters, protinators, or accelerators; they are powdered persulfate salts added to hair color to increase its lightening ability
Activators
This is also known as undertone, the varying degrees of warmth exposed during a permanent color or lighening process
Contributing Pigment
This is a process of treating gray or very resistant hair to allow for better penetration of color
Pre-softenting
This is the strength of a color
Intensity
These are also known as quick lighteners, they are powdered lighteners that cannot be directly used on the scalp
Off-The-Scalp Ligheners
These are non-permanent color whose large pigment molecules prevent penetration of the cuticle layer, allowing only a coating action that may be removed by shampooing
Temporary Haircolors
This is the unit of measurement used to identify the lightness or the darkness of a color
Level System
This is also known as a two-step coloring, a coloring technique requiring two separate procedures in which the hair is pre-lightened before the depositing color is applied to the hair
Double-Process Application
This is also known as hue, which is the balance of color
Tone
This is a lightening technique that involves pulling clean, dry strands of hair through a perforated cap with a thin plastic or metal hook and then combining them to remove tangles.
Cap Technique
This is a non-ammonia color that adds shine and tone to the hair
Glaze
This is a one word, professional, industry-coined term referring to artificial hair color products and services
Haircolor
This is a combination of equal parts of a prepared permanent color mixture and shampoo, used for the last five minutes, and worked through the hair to refesh the ends
Soap Cap
This process will determine how the hair will react to the color formula and how long the formula should be left on the hair.
Strand Test
This is the first step of double-processing hair coloring; it is used to lift or lighten the natural pigment before the application of toner.
Prelightening
These are used to equalize porosity
Fillers
This measures the concentration and strength of hydrogen peroxide
Volume
This is a coloring technique that involves taking a narrow, 1/8" section of hair by making a straight part at the scalp and positioning the hair over the foil and appliying lightener or color
Slicing
This is the first time hair is color treated.
Virgin Application
This is a highlighting technique that involves color selecting strands of hair by slicing or weaving out sections, placing them on foil or plastic wrap, applying lightener or permanent hair color, and then sealing them in the foil or plastic wrap
Foil Technique
These are also known as oxidizing or catalysts; when they are mixed with an oxidation hair color, it upplies the necessary oxygen gas to develop color molecules and create a change in the hair
Developers
A primary and secondary color positioned directly opposite each other on the color wheel
Complimentary Color
This is a technique that invlves partial lightening or coloring
Special Effects Haircoloring
These contain small, uncolored dyes that combine with hydrogen peroxide to form larger, permanent dye molecules within the cortex.
Aniline Derivatives
This is also known as low lighting; this is a technique of colorig strands of hair darker than or back to the natural color
Reverse Highlighting
These are colors prepared by combining permanent color, hydrogen peroxide, and shampoo.
Highlighting Shampoo
These are pure or fundamental colors that cannot be created by combining other colors
Primary Colors
this is also known as a Predisposition Test; it is a test required by the Federal, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ans is used for identifying a possible allergy in a client
Patch Test
This is the system of understanding color relationships
Law of Color
These are ligheners that can be used directly on the scalp by mixing the lighteners with developers
On-The-Scalp Lighteners
This is an oxidizing agent that, when mixed with an oxidizing hair color, supplies the necessary oxygen gas to develop the color molecules and create a change in th natural color
Hydrogen Peroxide
This is the part of the hair shaft between the scalp and the hair that has been previously colored
New Growth
This is also known as a free-form technique; it is painting a lightener directly onto clean hair
Balayage
This is the visible line separating the colored hair from the new growth.
Line of Demarcation
This is a color technique in which selected strands are picked up from a narrow section of hair with a zigzag motion of the comb, and then a lightener or color is applied only to those sectioned strands.
Weaving
These are used to recondition damaged, overly porous hair and equalize porosity so that the hair accepts color evenly from strand to strand and scalp to ends
Conditioning Fillers
These are colors that are obtained by mixing equal parts of two primary colors
Secondary Colors
This is coloring some strands of hair lighterthan the natural color to add a variety of lighter shades and the illusion of depth
Highlighting