CALIFORNIA BARBER FINAL EXAM 2026 ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Evironmental Protection Agency (EPA) - ✔✔a governmental agency with
environmental protection regulatory and enforcement authority
✔✔Who regulates product safety? - ✔✔EPA and state
✔✔What is tinea? - ✔✔Medical term for ringworm
✔✔What chemicals do not mix? - ✔✔Bleach and ammonia
✔✔What is used to clean barber head rests, chairs, and hard surfaces? - ✔✔EPA
registered hospital grade disinfectant
✔✔What happens when you mix aniline derivative and hydrogen peroxide -
✔✔Oxidization
✔✔Galvanic current - ✔✔Constant and direct current, having a positive and negative
pole, that produces chemical changes when it passes through the tissues and fluids of
the body.
✔✔What does galvanic current do for the skin? - ✔✔Creates chemical desincrustation
and ionic iontophoresis. Used to create a chemical reaction that emulsifies or liquefies
sebum and debris
✔✔What are universal precautions? - ✔✔Treat all blood as if it's contaminated
✔✔What do you put on a cut? - ✔✔Styptic powder
✔✔Quatts - ✔✔Quaternary ammonium compounds
✔✔Amp - ✔✔Measures the strength of an electric current
✔✔Volt - ✔✔Unit of electric pressure
✔✔Watt - ✔✔Unit of power
✔✔What is alopecia? - ✔✔Abnormal hair loss
✔✔Ideal face shape - ✔✔oval
✔✔Reverse freehand - ✔✔razor position and stroke used in 4 of the 14 basic shaving
areas: Nos. 5, 10, 13, and 14
, ✔✔What is the pigment of hair called - ✔✔melanin
✔✔Can't be made by mixing colors - ✔✔primary colors
✔✔Secondary colors are - ✔✔orange, green, violet
✔✔The primary colors are: - ✔✔red, yellow, blue
✔✔Tertiary colors are - ✔✔yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange,
yellow-orange
✔✔Pityriasis capitis simplex - ✔✔Technical term for classic dandruff; characterized by
scalp irritation, large flakes, and itchy scalp.
✔✔Bulla - ✔✔Large blister containing watery fluid
✔✔Sepsis - ✔✔Dangerous infection of the blood
✔✔What do the colors of the barber pole represent? - ✔✔Red-blood, blue-veins, white-
bandages silver pan-catch blood
✔✔What does acid do? - ✔✔Close the hair
✔✔What are sudoriferous glands? - ✔✔sweat glands
✔✔Histology - ✔✔study of tissues and their structures
✔✔Osteology - ✔✔Study of bones
✔✔Hyperdrosis - ✔✔excessive sweating
✔✔Three stages of matter - ✔✔solid, liquid, gas
✔✔Before sodium hydroxide processing hair should be analyzed for - ✔✔Texture,
elasticity, porosity
✔✔How many bones make up the skull and face? - ✔✔14 bones
✔✔What are the layers of skin? - ✔✔Epidermis, dermis, subcutaneous
✔✔Spirilla - ✔✔Spiral or corkscrew-shaped bacteria that cause sexually transmitted
diseases
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Evironmental Protection Agency (EPA) - ✔✔a governmental agency with
environmental protection regulatory and enforcement authority
✔✔Who regulates product safety? - ✔✔EPA and state
✔✔What is tinea? - ✔✔Medical term for ringworm
✔✔What chemicals do not mix? - ✔✔Bleach and ammonia
✔✔What is used to clean barber head rests, chairs, and hard surfaces? - ✔✔EPA
registered hospital grade disinfectant
✔✔What happens when you mix aniline derivative and hydrogen peroxide -
✔✔Oxidization
✔✔Galvanic current - ✔✔Constant and direct current, having a positive and negative
pole, that produces chemical changes when it passes through the tissues and fluids of
the body.
✔✔What does galvanic current do for the skin? - ✔✔Creates chemical desincrustation
and ionic iontophoresis. Used to create a chemical reaction that emulsifies or liquefies
sebum and debris
✔✔What are universal precautions? - ✔✔Treat all blood as if it's contaminated
✔✔What do you put on a cut? - ✔✔Styptic powder
✔✔Quatts - ✔✔Quaternary ammonium compounds
✔✔Amp - ✔✔Measures the strength of an electric current
✔✔Volt - ✔✔Unit of electric pressure
✔✔Watt - ✔✔Unit of power
✔✔What is alopecia? - ✔✔Abnormal hair loss
✔✔Ideal face shape - ✔✔oval
✔✔Reverse freehand - ✔✔razor position and stroke used in 4 of the 14 basic shaving
areas: Nos. 5, 10, 13, and 14
, ✔✔What is the pigment of hair called - ✔✔melanin
✔✔Can't be made by mixing colors - ✔✔primary colors
✔✔Secondary colors are - ✔✔orange, green, violet
✔✔The primary colors are: - ✔✔red, yellow, blue
✔✔Tertiary colors are - ✔✔yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange,
yellow-orange
✔✔Pityriasis capitis simplex - ✔✔Technical term for classic dandruff; characterized by
scalp irritation, large flakes, and itchy scalp.
✔✔Bulla - ✔✔Large blister containing watery fluid
✔✔Sepsis - ✔✔Dangerous infection of the blood
✔✔What do the colors of the barber pole represent? - ✔✔Red-blood, blue-veins, white-
bandages silver pan-catch blood
✔✔What does acid do? - ✔✔Close the hair
✔✔What are sudoriferous glands? - ✔✔sweat glands
✔✔Histology - ✔✔study of tissues and their structures
✔✔Osteology - ✔✔Study of bones
✔✔Hyperdrosis - ✔✔excessive sweating
✔✔Three stages of matter - ✔✔solid, liquid, gas
✔✔Before sodium hydroxide processing hair should be analyzed for - ✔✔Texture,
elasticity, porosity
✔✔How many bones make up the skull and face? - ✔✔14 bones
✔✔What are the layers of skin? - ✔✔Epidermis, dermis, subcutaneous
✔✔Spirilla - ✔✔Spiral or corkscrew-shaped bacteria that cause sexually transmitted
diseases
