Hairstyling
The process of shaping and directing the hair into an S pattern through the use of the fingers, combs, and lotion.
What is Finger Waving?
The basic unit of matter with a nucleus at the center surrounded by negatively charged electrons that move around the nucleus in orbits.
What is an Atom?
Proper terminology for your haircutting tool
What are shears?
a cosmetic treatment of the hands involving cutting, shaping, and often painting of the nails, removal of the cuticles, and softening of the skin
What is a Manicure?
An inflammatory, uncomfortable, and often chronic disease of the skin.
What is Eczema?
The section of the pin curl between the base and first arc of the circle that gives the curl its direction and movement
What is the stem of the curl?
A two-step process whereby the hair undergoes a physical change caused by wrapping the hair on perm rods. (Looking for the professional terminology)
What is Permanent Waving?
An effect achieved by cutting the hair with elevation or overdirection.
What is a layered haircut?
A colorless, inflammable liquid, miscible with water, alcohol, and ether, and has a sweetish odor or burning taste. A type of polish remover.
What is Acetone?
The medical branch of science that deals with the study of skin
Temporarily straightens extremely curly or resistant hair by means of a heated iron or comb.
What is hair pressing?
Strong Chemical side bonds formed when the sulfur atoms in two adjacent protein chains are joined together.
What are Disulfide Bonds?
Considered the widest area of the head, starting at the temples and ending at the bottom of the crown
What is the parietal ridge?
A thin layer of tissue that helps guide the nail plate along the nail bed as it grows.
What is a bed epithelium?
Fibrous protein of cells that is also the principal component of hair and nails.
What is Keratin?
Used to build a soft cushion or to mesh two or more curl patterns together for a uniform and smooth comb out. Also known as Ruffing
What is Backbrushing?
A measure of the acidity and alkalinity of a substance
What is a pH scale?
A visual line in the haircut where the ends of the hair hang together
What is a weight line?
If the nail is abnormal in shape of form
What is nail malformation?
The outermost and thinnest layer of the skin
What is the epidermis?
The point where curls of opposite directions meet, forming a recessed area.
What is Indentation?
The process by which hydroxide relaxers permanently straighten the hair, the relaxers remove a sulfur atom from a disulfide bond and convert it into a lanthionine bond.
What is Ianthionization?
A cutting technique that has crossed over into cosmetology from the barbering industry
What is Shear-Over-Comb?
The slightly thickened layer of skin under the nail that lies between the fingertip and the free edge of the nail plate
What is the hyponychium?
An inflammation of the skin caused by having contact with certain chemicals or substances.