Banana
This elongates a wave pattern, softens textured hair, and stretches the hair shaft length.
What is blow-drying?
Extension fibers, hackles and drawing boards are examples of the implements and material needed for this hair service.
What are hair extensions?
Textured hair is defined as hair with this type of curl pattern.
What is a tight curl pattern?
When braiding and natural hairstyling the term diameter refers to what?
Whether the hair is coarse, medium, or fine
Hairstyling that does not alter the natural curl or coil patterns of the hair.
What is natural hairstyling?
This tool is useful for lifting and separating textured hair.
What is a pick with rounded teeth?
A traditional cornrow is flat, natural, and contoured to the ___.
What is the scalp?
In the natural hairstyling/braiding world natural or virgin hair refers to this.
Hair that has never had any chemical treatments
What are cornrows?
This comb is excellent for design parting, sectioning large segments of hair, and opening and removing braids.
What is a tail comb?
During the consultation the stylist should pay special attention to the client's __.
What is hair texture?
Most braided styles are appropriate for this face shape.
What is an oval face shape?
This technique involves overlapping two strands to form a candy cane effect.
Twisting
This type of brush is good for releasing tangles, knots, and snarls in short textured hair and long, straight hair.
What is a square paddle brush?
____ ____ is excessive, active, or abnormal hair loss caused from excess tension being placed on the hair.
Traction Alopecia
These brushes are best for stimulating the scalp as well as for removing dirt and lint from locks.
What are boar-bristle brushes?
This type of brush has a single or double row of widely spaced pins with protective tips to prevent tearing and breaking the hair, which can be used to gently remove tangles on hair and hair extensions.
What is a vent brush?
This blow dryer attachment loosens the curl pattern in textured hair for braiding styles, and dries, stretches, and softens textured hair.
What is the comb nozzle?
Historically the first highly decorative braids were seen among these tribes.
What are the African tribes?
This technique involves sewing a weft of hair onto a cornrow braid, and then wrapping and locking to create African locks or dreadlocks.
What is weaving?
As early as 3000 BC these women wore braids or plaits decorated with shells, sequins, and glass or gold beads.
Who are the Egyptian women?
A manufactured synthetic fiber that is used for hair extensions that is durable, soft, resistant to heat and less inclined to tangle than many other synthetics.
What is Kanekalon?
A ___ is a board of fine, upright nails through which human hair extensions are combed; used for detangling or blending colors and highlights.
Hackle
This extension material may cut of break the hair and melt with the application of excessive heat.
What is Nylon?
The teeth on these combs range in width from medium to large, and have long rounded tips to avoid scratching the scalp.
What are wide tooth combs?
Imported wool fiber available in black or brown with a matte finish that is used in hair extensions.
What are lin extensions?
This strong extension material comes from the domestic ox found in the mountains of Tibet and central Asia.
What are Yak extensions?
This type of hair is best braided slightly damp or very lightly coated with wax or pomade to make it more pliable.
What is straight, resistant hair?
Performing a through consultation will help to avoid this, and ensure a happy ending to the service.
What is client misunderstanding?
A three strand braid that is created with an underhand technique.
What is a visible braid? (Dutch)
A simple two strand braid where the hair is picked up from the sides and added to strands as they are crossed over each other.
What is a fishtail braid?
This inverted braid, is a three strand braid that is produced with an overhand technique, or overlapping the strands of hair.
What is an invisible braid? (French)
This braid is created with two strands that are twisted around each other.
What is a rope braid?
Single braids, box braids, or individual braids all refer to ___.
What are free-hanging braids?
This method of applying extensions to cornrows or individual braids allows them to look natural, last longer, and not place excessive tension on the hair line.
What is the Feed-In Method?
A light, soft extension material that does not reflect light and gives the braid a matte finish.
What are yarn extensions?
This set is a two part set that can be done on natural hair, transitional hair, twists, extensions, weaves, wigs, and locks.
What is a twist set?
This term refers to separate networks of curly, textured hair that have been intertwined and meshed together.
What are locks?
Square paddle brushes are considered ____ because they have a cushion of air in the head that makes the bristles collapse when they encounter too much resistance.
What is pneumatic?
Extension fibers come in a variety of types: Kanekalon, nylon, rayon, human hair, yarn, lin, and ___.
What is yak?
A newer way to add hair for a longer look by braiding or cornrow braiding along with hair extensions, so that the finished look shows mostly faux hair. In this technique a few very short braids can be seen standing up along the front hairline, then the hair extension flows freely to create the look of naturally long, straight hair.
Tree Braiding
This method of locking uses portions of hair that are placed between the palms of both hands and rolled in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction.
What is palm rolling?
Small sections of natural hair that are gelled and spiraled with fingers or a comb to create individual formations of tight, cylindrical coils.
What are coils?
In general when is it best to braid curly hair?
When it is dry
This type of hair is the gold standard for hair extensions and is mostly imported from Asia.
What is human hair?