Color Application
Hair coloring
Color Wheel
Science in color
Color Trivia
Hair and Scalp
100

These two tools are best used for thick or creamy color.

What is bowl & brush?

100

This hair texture may tend to process slightly lighter than the intended level.

What is coarse?

100

Name the three primary colors.

What are blue, yellow, and red?

100

This type of hair color is made up of the largest molecules.

What is temporary hair color?

100

With special effects such as hair painting, you would use this type of lightener.

Off-the-scalp lightener

100

This level of hair color may need to be applied to a client that has 75%-80% gray hair.

What is one level darker than the desired level?

200
This tool is used to comb and part the hair.

What is tail comb?

200

Long-lasting, semi-permanent colors will generally last about this many weeks.

What is 4 to 6 weeks?

200

Mixing colors found opposite one another on the color wheel produces this color.

What is brown or dark gray?

200

White is the color of keratin without this.

What is melanin?

200

A highlighting technique in which a crochet hook is used to pull hair strands through.

What is cap method?

200

This protein accounts for 97% of the makeup of each hair strand.

What is keratin?

300

The color technique that lightens isolated strands by weaving or slicing.

highlighting

300

The brightness or vividness of a hair color is referred to this.

What is intensity?

300

Colors that fall into the orange and red half of the color wheel are identified as these.

What are warm colors?

300

A skin patch test must be done at least this many hours before the actual procedure that requires a predisposition test.

What is 24 hours?
300

A 30 volume hydrogen peroxide solution will lift the hair how many more levels than a 20 volume solution

What is 1 level?

300

This part of the hair shaft is where temporary colors coat.

What is Cuticle?

400

This technique is performed on the surface of the hair to create a highlighted or lowlighted color effect.

What is surface painting?

400

Hair color products that are mixed with a developer are referred to as this.

What are oxidative colors?

400

These are the colors found opposite each other on the color wheel.

What are complementary colors?

400

A permanent hair color product is mixed with a developer and applied to the hair, which allows undeveloped, small color molecules to enter this part of the hair shaft. 

What is cortex?

400

This may be required if the desired amount of lift is not achieved using a single-process color.

What is prelightening?

400

If redness and swelling are found around the test area when performing a predisposition test, the next step is this.

What is stop the service?

500

This test is given to a client to determine a possible sensitivity to aniline derivatives.

What is a patch test?

500

A predominant amount of pheomelanin produces this color hair.

What is red hair?

500

These colors are achieved when mixing varying proportions of a primary color with its neighboring secondary color.

What are tertiary colors?

500

This type of developer is an oxidizing agent that supplies oxygen gas for the development of color molecules when mixed with an oxidative hair color product.

What is hydrogen peroxide developer?

500

This product is used before a color service to provide an even base.

What is a filler?

500

On-the-scalp lighteners have a pH of this.

What is about 9.0?

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