Beneath the Surface
This is the muscle that causes goosebumps.
What is the arrector pili muscle?
What is Trichology?
Growth Phase
What is Anagen?
This type of wax is considered "stripless"
What is hard wax?
How long should hair be in order for waxing to be effective?
1/4-1/2 inch
These glands secrete sebum.
What are the sebaceous glands?
The hair found on a fetus is called ___________.
What is Telogen?
This type of hair removal only contains 3 ingredients.
Sugaring
These medications are contraindications for waxing.
Retin-A, Accutane, Steroids, or any other skin thinning medicine.
This is a mass of epidermal cells that form a tube to house the hair.
What is the hair follicle?
This condition is characterized by the growth of terminal hair where there is normally only vellus hair.
What is Hypertrichosis?
Transition phase.
What is catagen?
Which type of wax adheres to the more to the skin?
Soft wax
To prevent burns always _______________.
Test on your inner wrist.
This is the club shape structure where hair grows and helps form the hair root.
What is the hair bulb?
This condition is characterized by excessive hair growth on the arms, face, and legs, specifically in women.
What is Hirsuitisim?
During what phase of hair growth is the follicle ready to be shed?
The telogen phase.
This is the amount of space you need to grip your wax strip when pulling.
What is 1"?
This is the removal of hair at or near the surface of the skin.
What is depilation?
This is the cone shaped elevation that provides nutrients to the hair follicle.
What is the hair papilla?
This term defines the whole hair follicle and its appendages.
What is the Pilosebaceous unit?
What phase of hair growth is permanent hair reduction most effective in?
Anagen phase
This is the removal of hair from the follicle.
What is Epilation?
What is a depilatory?
Caustic alkali substance that temporarily dissolves hair at the surface of the skin.