COSMETOLOGY STATE BOARD ACTUAL
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ What bacteria are unpathogenic?
Answer: Saprophytes
◉ What is the first step in hair cutting?
Answer: Sectioning
◉ What is the main type of hair relaxer?
Answer: Sodium Hydroxide
◉ What is elevation during hair-cutting?
Answer: The angle you hold the hair at while cutting
◉ How long before a chemical service should a pre deposition test
be done?
Answer: 24 hours
,◉ How can you determine how the hair will react to a permanent
wave?
Answer: Strand test
◉ What does 90 degree elevation determine in a haircut?
Answer: Layers/uniform
◉ When tweezing the eyebrows, what do you do?
Answer: Pull the hair in a quick motion in the direction of the
growth
◉ What temporarily removes unwanted hair?
Answer: Depilatories
◉ Where are the blood vessels found?
Answer: In the dermis
◉ Where are most glands found?
Answer: Dermis
◉ What causes acrylic to adhere?
Answer: Primer
, ◉ What are Emory boards used for?
Answer: To file the free edge
◉ How many bones are in the cranium?
Answer: 8
◉ Where is the hyponichium located?
Answer: Underneath the free edge
◉ If you cut yourself, what do you use to disinfect the implement
that cut you?
Answer: Hospital grade disenfectant
◉ What accompanies rapid oxidation?
Answer: Heat, light and air
◉ When rolling a perm, how should you hold you shoulders?
Answer: Parallel to the floor
◉ Moving the clients chair up and down can help prevent strain in
your?
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◉ What bacteria are unpathogenic?
Answer: Saprophytes
◉ What is the first step in hair cutting?
Answer: Sectioning
◉ What is the main type of hair relaxer?
Answer: Sodium Hydroxide
◉ What is elevation during hair-cutting?
Answer: The angle you hold the hair at while cutting
◉ How long before a chemical service should a pre deposition test
be done?
Answer: 24 hours
,◉ How can you determine how the hair will react to a permanent
wave?
Answer: Strand test
◉ What does 90 degree elevation determine in a haircut?
Answer: Layers/uniform
◉ When tweezing the eyebrows, what do you do?
Answer: Pull the hair in a quick motion in the direction of the
growth
◉ What temporarily removes unwanted hair?
Answer: Depilatories
◉ Where are the blood vessels found?
Answer: In the dermis
◉ Where are most glands found?
Answer: Dermis
◉ What causes acrylic to adhere?
Answer: Primer
, ◉ What are Emory boards used for?
Answer: To file the free edge
◉ How many bones are in the cranium?
Answer: 8
◉ Where is the hyponichium located?
Answer: Underneath the free edge
◉ If you cut yourself, what do you use to disinfect the implement
that cut you?
Answer: Hospital grade disenfectant
◉ What accompanies rapid oxidation?
Answer: Heat, light and air
◉ When rolling a perm, how should you hold you shoulders?
Answer: Parallel to the floor
◉ Moving the clients chair up and down can help prevent strain in
your?
