Hairstyling
The first step in the hairstyling process.
What is Client Consultation?
Disinfectant that is considered nontoxic, odorless, and fast-acting. Often referred to as quats.
What are Quaternary Ammonium Compounds?
Named for the nail bed color; usually caused by a lack of circulating oxygen in the red blood cells.
What are Blue Fingernails?
The tiny, involuntary muscle in the base of the hair follicle.
What is the Arrector Pili Muscle?
Forms the forehead.
What is the Frontal Bone?
Styling that does not use chemicals or alter the hair's natural curl or coil pattern.
What is Natural Hairstyling?
When a stylist cuts herself or the client.
What is an Exposure Incident?
Any deformity or disease of the natural nail.
What is Onychosis?
The 5 main elements that make up the chemical composition of human hair.
What is Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen. & Sulfur? (COHNS Elements)
Electrons flowing in one direction only.
What is Direct Current (DC)?
This shape is created when wrapping the hair one and a half turns around a roller.
What is a Wave?
Set guidelines and controls, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), that require the employer and the employee to assume that all human blood and specified human body fluids are infectious for HIV, HBV, and other bloodborne pathogens.
What is Universal Precautions?
Also known as white spots; whitish discolorations of the nails, usually caused by minor injury to the nail matrix.
What are Leukonychia Spots?
Needed for chemicals to penetrate a healthy cuticle hair layer.
What is an Alkaline pH?
Forms the sides of the head in the ear region.
What are the Two Temporal Bones?
Narrow forehead, extreme width through the cheekbones, and narrow chin.
What is Diamond Face Shape?
Short, rod-shaped bacteria; the most common bacteria.
What are Bacilli?
The condition of split or brittle nails that have a series of lengthwise ridges giving a rough appearance to the surface of the nail plate.
What is Onychorrhexis?
Type of melanin that provides natural hair colors ranging from red and ginger to yellow and blonde tones.
What is Pheomelanin?
The deeper layer of the dermis that supplies the skin with oxygen and nutrients.
What is the Reticular Layer?
Has a prominent forehead and chin.
What is Concave Profile?
Pus-forming bacteria that grow in clusters like a bunch of grapes.
What is Staphylococci?
Also known as rams horn or claw nails; An enlargement of the fingernails or toenails accompanied by thickening and curvature.
What is Onychogryposis?
The chemical bonds that hold together the amino acid molecules.
What are Peptide Bonds?
Forms the sides of the eye socket.
What is the Sphenoid Bone?