Nail Vocab
What is the C-Curve?
What is the curvature or arch of the nail when looking at the nail from the tip down the barrel.
What is Dermatitis?
What is a inflammatory condition of the skin.
How do Chemical Hair Relaxers work?
What is increase the hair's pH balance to an alkaline state, which raises the cuticle layer and allows the relaxer to reach the cortex, where the restricting takes place.
When a cosmetologist combs hair away from its natural falling position before cutting in order to increase a hair design's length, the cosmetologist is using?
What is overdirection.
What destroys all microbial life?
What is sterilization.
What is Nail Resin?
What is cyanoacrylate; a colorless liquid acrylate monomer easily cured and used as a powerful, fast-acting adhesive.
What is Eczema?
What is an inflammatory, painful itching disease of the skin. Presenting many forms of dry or moist lesions.
Hydroxide relaxers permanently straighten hair by removing one of the bonded sulfur atoms in a disulfide bond. What is this process called?
What is Lanthionization.
What type of haircut section separates the head at the parietal ridge to below the crown?
What would OSHA most likely be involved in regulating?
What is the disposal of chemical products in the workplace.
What is the Stress Strip?
What is a strip of fabric cut to about an ⅛ inch in length and applied across the stress line.
What is Milia?
What is a small whitish pear-like masses in the epidermis, whiteheads.
Which process uses a thio-based chemical process and is recommended for loosening hair texture that is extremely curly into a larger curl pattern?
What is Soft Curl Permanent.
To execute a client's desired hairstyle, a stylist must remove large sections from the client's straight, thick hair. Which type of haircutting shears is best for this task?
What is Chunking Shears?
When is comes to the spread of infectious disease, beauty professionals must be prepared to deal with all EXCEPT which type of potentially harmful organisms?
What is gases.
What is Butyl Acetate?
What is a common ingredient in nail dehydrators.
What does Miliaria Rubra cause?
What is prickly heat.
Cosmetologist should recommend that clients take this step to preserve moisture after a soft curl perm?
What is wearing a processing cap while sleeping.
A stylist executing a graduated haircut should do which of the following?
What is cut with a 45-degree elevation at the back and a 90-degree elevation for the layers.
Most bacteria are what?
What is nonpathogenic.
What is Polymerization?
What is a chemical process that causes monomers to join to create very long chains.
What is Asteatosis?
What is a condition of dry scaly skin due to a deficiency of sebum.
What is main active ingredient in true acid and acid-balanced waving lotions?
What is Glyceryl Monothioglycolate.
Which of the following is used to taper hairlines from extremely short lengths into longer lengths?
What is shear-over-comb technique.
OSHA defines PPE as what?
What is specialized clothing or equipment worn by an employee for protection against a hazard.