Hair Structure Anatomy
A mass of epidermal cells forming a small tube or canal.
What is, A Hair Follicle
This type of hair is not recommended to remove due to its potential to become Terminal Hair.
What is, Vellus Hair
This is known as the transition stage of hair growth.
Hair has completed the growth stage and has detached itself from the dermal papilla.
What is, Catagen Stage
This condition presents itself with hirsutism, irregular hair growth, obesity, irregular menses, ovarian cysts.
Androgen hormone would also be present with this condition.
What is, PCOS (Polycystic ovarian syndrome)
Forms of Epilation involve waxing, sugaring...
What else is a part of this list?
What is, Threading and tweezing
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What is the definition of Depilation?
This muscle contracts when effected by cold or other stimuli to cause the hair to stand upright. In result, goosebumps start to form.
What is, Arrector Pili Muscle
This type of hair is found on a fetus and naturally sheds off. This hair is replaced with either vellus or terminal hair.
What is, Lanugo Hair
True or False:
A good way to remember the phases of hair growth cycle ACT
What is, True
True or False:
Waxing over time does nothing to those with either PCOS, Hirsutism and Hypertrichosis. The will still experience excessive hair growth like normal.
What is, False
Overtime waxing will cause a reduction in the amount of hair growing if consistent with treatments.
What is the acronym for LASER?
What is,
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
This is defined as the scientific study of hair and its diseases
What is, Trichology
True or False:
All hair is the same hair and there is no significant difference at all.
What is, False.
How many types of hair do we have and list them on your board.
During this stage, the hair moves up the follicle and is ready to shed.
Hair bulb is not active, and hair may sit in the follicle until the new hair starts to grow and push it furth out.
What is, Telogen Phase
True or False:
It is not important to know any medications your client takes because their health history doesn't pertain to waxing treatments.
It's just the hair we need to worry about as estheticians.
What is, False
True or False:
Estheticians should promote shaving because it is the best temporary form of removing hair and the results last longer than threading or waxing
What is, False
This is a cone shaped elevation of connective tissue that contains nutrient channels (such as capillaries) to provide the hair its nutrients.
What is, The Hair Papilla
This is longer, coarse hair found on the head, brows, lashes, genital area, arms and legs.
What is, Terminal Hair
True or False:
Hair grows in 5 different stages, corneum, lucidum, granulosum, spinosum and the germinative stage.
What is, False.
What are the stages hair grows in?
This condition is caused by genetics and ethnically inherited.
Other factors such as puberty, menopause, pregnancy, certain medical procedures/ treatments, cancer and or cancer can trigger this condition.
What is, Hypertrichosis
True or False:
Soft wax you are able to apply it in a figure eight motion with thick borders on the outside and thin application in the middle. Apply in the direction of hair growth.
Removal is with the muslin or pellon strip in the opposite direction of hair growth.
What is, False
How is this statement false?
A thick, club shaped structure made from epithelial cells that surround the papilla. Mitosis (cell division) happens here to help the hair grow.
What is, Hair Bulb
True or False:
the body naturally is triggered by free radicals to grow terminal hair in areas such as the head, genital area, legs, underarms etc.
What is, False.
Naturally triggered by what?
This is known as the growth stage during which new hair is produced.
New keratinized cells are manufactured in the hair follicle during this stage.
What is, Anagen Phase
This condition is caused by excessive androgen hormone production.
What is, Hirsutism
Electrolysis is the one true form of permanent hair removal. What is the three branches of Electrolysis and what current do they each use.
One branch of electrolysis uses a combination of both.
What is, Thermolysis using Alternating Current, killing the dermal papilla
Galvanic using Direct Current decomposing the follicle
BLEND is a combination of the two methods applied simultaneously or alternately