Jet Black
Also known as a predisposition test; test required by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for identifying a possible allergy in a client.
What is a patch test?
Coloring technique that involves taking a narrow, 1⁄8-inch (0.3 centimeters) section of hair by making a straight part at the scalp, positioning the hair over the foil, and applying lightener or color.
What is slicing?
Pure or fundamental colors (red, yellow, and blue) that cannot be created by combining other colors.
What are primary colors?
Combination of equal parts of a prepared permanent color mixture and shampoo used the last five minutes and worked through the hair to refresh the ends.
What is a soap cap?
Also known as hue; the balance of color.
What is tone?
Nonpermanent color whose large pigment molecules prevent penetration of the cuticle layer, allowing only a coating action that may be removed by shampooing.
What is temporary hair color?
Color obtained by mixing equal parts of two primary colors.
What is a secondary color?
Process of treating gray or very resistant hair to allow for better penetration of color.
What is presoftening?
Determines how the hair will react to the color formula and how long the formula should be left on the hair.
What is a strand test?
Also known as lowlighting; technique of coloring strands of hair darker than the natural color.
What is reverse highlighting?
First step of double-process haircoloring, used to lift or lighten the natural pigment before the application of toner.
What is prelightening?
Intermediate color achieved by mixing a secondary color and its neighboring primary color on the color wheel in equal amounts.
What is tertiary color?
Any technique that involves partial lightening or coloring.
What is special effects haircoloring?
Lighten and deposit color at the same time and in a single process because they are more alkaline than no-lift deposit-only colors and are usually mixed with a higher-volume developer.
What is permanent hair color?
Semipermanent, demipermanent, and permanent haircolor products that are used primarily on prelightened hair to achieve pale and delicate colors.
What are toners?
First time the hair is colored.
What is a virgin application?
Hair type that is difficult for moisture or chemicals to penetrate, and thus requires a longer processing time.
What is resistant?
Measures the concentration and strength of hydrogen peroxide.
What is volume?
No-lift deposit-only nonoxidation haircolor that is not mixed with peroxide and is formulated to last through several shampoos.
What is semipermanent hair color?
Process that lightens and deposits color in the hair in a single application.
What is single-process haircoloring?
Coloring technique in which selected strands are picked up from a narrow section of hair with a zigzag motion of the comb, and lightener or color is applied only to these strands.
What is weaving?
Use this to remove or lighten a black hair tint
What is dye solvent or tint remover?
Hair wound smoothly around the permanent wave rod without stretching allows the hair to ____during processing.
What is expand?
In a diagrammatic sketch of non-porous hair, the scales of the cuticle layer appears to be this.
What is overlapped?
The chief ingredient in an alkaline wave solution.
What is ammonium thioglycolate?