Vocab
Shapes
Numbers
Healthy Hair
Potpourri
100
Hair above the skin.
What is the Hair Shaft?
100
Tube-shaped pocket in the skin.
What are follicles?
100
Three layers of the hair shaft.
What are the Cuticle, Cortex & Medulla?
100
Lubricates hair and skin.
What is Sebum?
100
Two places on the body where there are no hair structures.
What are the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet?
200
Hair located below the scalp.
What is the Hair Root?
200
Club-shaped structure.
What is the Hair Bulb?
200
Percentage of weight of hair that comes from the cortex.
What is 90%?
200
The fibrous protein core of the hair.
What is the Cortex?
200
The layer of the hair affected by oxidation haircolor, wet setting, permanent waving, etc.
What is the Cortex?
300
Makes oil for the skin.
What are the Sebaceous Glands?
300
Small, cone-shaped area.
What is the Dermal Papilla?
300
The number of amino acids that make up hair.
What is 20?
300
Responsible for the shine and silky feeling of hair.
What is a healthy cuticle?
300
Layer of the hair not involved in salon services.
What is the Medulla?
400
Common for fine or blond hair to lack this layer of hair.
What is the Medulla?
400
Shape of the cells in the cortex.
What is elongated?
400
The number of amino acids that make up hair that the body produces.
What is 11?
400
How to test the health of the hair cuticle.
What is to pinch a single strand and feel the shaft moving from end to root?
400
Supplies the hair with blood and nerves need for growth.
What is the Dermal Papilla?
500
Involuntary muscle.
What are the Arrector Pili?
500
Shape of the cells in the medulla.
What is round?
500
Five main structures of the hair root.
What are the Follicle, Bulb, Dermal Papilla, Arrector Pili & Sebaceous Gland?
500
Poor diet can have these 3 effects on your hair.
What are hair loss, lackluster hair & poor scalp conditions?
500
The effect of alkaline products on the cuticle and the reason for this effect.
What is swelling- it lifts the cuticle and allows liquid into the cortex.
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