Hair Theory
This is the protein that hair is made primarily made of.
What is Keratin?
This service straightens overly curly hair.
What is relaxer?
What are primary colors?
What is the study of microorganisms?
What is bacteriology?
What type of guide is used for designs which appear as one-length at the perimeter.
What is stationary?
This formed when two or more unlike atoms chemically combine:
What is a compound
Another name for cuticle is the:
What is Eponychium?
What is straight hair?
This perm uses body heat to activate the solution.
What is exothermic?
Equal parts of two primary colors create these.
What are secondary colors?
Corkscrew shaped bacteria which can cause disease such as syphilis are known as this.
What is spirilla?
The direction hair assumes as it gravitates naturally as it falls is known as:
What is natural distribution?
Ointments are mixtures of organic substances and:
What is the cuticle?
The three layers of the hair shaft are cuticle, cortex, and this.
What is the medulla?
This chemical is the most common active ingredient in no-lye relaxers.
What is calcium hydroxide?
This term refers to how light or dark a color is.
What is level?
Cocci bacteria have this shape.
What is round?
A uniformly layered form is cut at this degree.
What is a 90-degree angle cut?
When a solute mixed in a solvent is inclined to separate if it is left standing:
What is a suspension?
What is the integumentary system?
What is 1/2 inch?
This type of rod has the same diameter throughout.
What is a straight rod?
The term for the warmth or coolness of a color.
What is tone?
When pathogenic bacteria must have living matter in order to grow they are called:
What is parasites?
A line which divides the hair at the scalp and separates one section of hair from another section is:
What is a part?
The dense center of atoms which contains protons and sometimes neutrons is called the:
Nucleus
Another name for shedding of the nail plate.
What is Onychomadesis?
The phase where new hair actively grows.
What is the anagen phase?
Overlapping relaxer can result in this condition.
What is breakage or overprocessing?
The pigment that gives black and brown tones to the hair.
What is eumelanin?
Pediculosis is the term for:
What is a skin disease brought about by head or body lice?
What are the two basic curved line known as?
What is the convex and concave?
When two or more non-mixable substances are united with the assistance of a bind or gum-like substance, a/an _____ is formed.
What is an emulsion?
The abnormal overgrowth of nails or thickening of the nail plate is known as:
What is Onychauxis?
Hair growth occurs in this layer of the skin.
What is the dermis?
This test checks if hair is ready to be neutralized.
What is the curl development test or strand test?
This process removes pigment from the hair.
What is lightening or decolorizing?
The body's ability to destroy and resist infection is known as:
What is immunity?
The pH of pure water is:
What is the main function of the free edge of the nail?
What is protection of the tip of the toe or finger?
The type of bond broken during chemical relaxing.
What is disulfide bond?
What is the neutral pH.
What is 7?
The tone that appears when hair is lightened but not toned.
What is underlying pigment?
What is sepsis?
These lines help to create the impression of movement and excitement.
What is diagonal lines?
Unstable atoms seek out other atoms that they can share ____ with in order to complete their outer shell.
Overgrown cuticles are called:
What is pterygium?
Condition in which hair splits at the ends.
What is trichoptilosis
This type of relaxer has a higher pH and is more powerful.
What is sodium hydroxide (lye) relaxer?
This can be a protein and non-protein; correct excessive porosity; penetrate the cuticle and fill in small holes in the hair.
What is fillers?
Yeast, mold, and mildew are all types of:
What is fungi?
When a cut is made for the purpose of subsequent partings or sections of hair to be measured and cut it is:
What is a guide?
A process or reaction that releases energy in the form of heat is called:
What is exothermic?
When a black band called melanonychia under the nail plate or within the nail plate is evident, the client should see a physician to rule out this:
What is Malignant melanoma?
Hair that grows in a circular or spiral pattern is called this.
What is whorl?
This chemical softens the existing curl in a reformation service.
What is rearranger?
What tones reflect light?
What is warm tones?
Bacilli bacteria have this shape?
What is rod?
During a fade procedure at what point does the transition from faded lengths move to interior lengths?
What is the crest area?
When a solute is dissolved in a solvent it is:
What is a solution?
What is to anchor the matrix bed and the nail bed to underlying bone?
This rare genetic condition results in no hair on the body.
What is congenital alopecia?
This base control creates the most volume.
Black hair contains densely packed melanin granules full of this.
What is eumelanin?
Aquired Immune Deficiency is caused by.
What is the HIV virus?
Which tool is used to cut the hair as close as possible without the use of a straight razor?
What is an electric shaver?
The atomic number of an element indicates how many _____ are in the nucleus of an atom of that element.
What is electrons?
This is the cuticle which overlaps the area of the lunula at the base of the nail
What is the eponychium?