Key Terms
The scientific study of hair and its diseases.
What is Trichology?
The final resting stage of hair growth. The club hair moves up the follicle and is ready to shed.
What is Telogen?
Hair is made from a hard protein called
What is Keratin?
The process of removing hair by means of electricity.
What is Electrolysis?
The hair is removed from the skins surface. Usually a daily ritual for both men and women.
Very soft, fine hair.
What is Vellus Hair?
Anchors hair to the skin cells and is part of the hair located at the bottom of the follicle below to surface of the skin.
What is the root?
This method uses direct current, which causes chemical decomposition of the hair follicle.
What is Galvanic Electrolysis?
An ancient method of hair removal. Works by using cotton thread that is twisted and rolled along the surface of the skin.
What is Threading?
Longer, courser hair found on the head, brows, lashes, genitals, arms, and legs.
What is Terminal Hair?
This color hair is generally finer and easier to remove.
The part of the hair located above the surface of the skin. It actually starts forming about halfway up the surface of the skin up to the surface near the sebaceous gland.
What is the shaft?
This method of Electrolysis utilizes a high-frequency current to produce heat, which coagulates and destroys the hair follicle.
What is Thermolysis?
Another ancient method of hair removal. An alternative for those who have sensitive skin or who react to waxes with bumps and redness.
What is Sugaring?
The growth stage during which new hair its produced.
What is Anagen?
This color hair is usually more coarse and can be more difficult to remove. These individuals generally have fair skin that tends to be more sensitive.
Thick, club shaped structure made from epithelial cells that surround the papilla.
What is the bulb?
This method combines both systems, sending a current through a fine needle or probe.
What is Blend?
The primary hair removal method used by estheticians.
What is waxing?
The transition stage of hair growth. The hair grows upward an detaches itself from the dermal papilla.
What is Catagen?
The skin and hair are normally thicker and darker when closer to this.
A cone shaped elevaron at the base of the follicle, fits into the bulb.
What is the papilla?
A laser beam is pulsed on the skin, impairing the hair follicles.
What is Laser?
Pulling hair out by the root one at a time.
What is Tweezing?