INDIANA PSI COSMETOLOGY STUDY EXAMS GUIDE
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔What should be used when massaging the clients scalp during a scalp massage? -
✔✔Fingertips
✔✔The most important factors to consider in hair analysis does not include - ✔✔Growth
pattern
✔✔What type of shampoo contains an active agent that binds to metals and removes
them from the hair? - ✔✔Clarifying shampoo
✔✔What conditioners should not be used on braids? - ✔✔Creamy
✔✔What is the term for an oily cream used to protect the skin and scalp during hair
relaxing? - ✔✔Base cream
✔✔What is determined by the patch test? - ✔✔Allergic reactions
✔✔What is the name for wrapping a perm with one end paper placed under and
another placed over the strand of hair? - ✔✔Double flat wrap
✔✔When using a chemical relaxer, it changes the shape of the hair by breaking down
what? - ✔✔Disulfide bonds
✔✔When performing a basic perm, the hair should be divided into how many panels? -
✔✔9
✔✔What is the main ingredient in true acid and acid balanced waving lotions? -
✔✔Glycerol monothioglycolate
✔✔When using relaxers incorrectly, what could happen? - ✔✔The hair melts
, ✔✔In a relaxer, what active ingredient has a 9.6-10 pH? - ✔✔Ammonium Thioglycolate
✔✔When preparing for a virgin relaxer application, what would be done FIRST? -
✔✔Performing test for elasticity and porosity
✔✔What equalizes porosity? - ✔✔Fillers
✔✔Alkalizers have many roles, one of them not being... - ✔✔Making a physical change
✔✔What hair color procedures will lighten hair prior to depositing color? - ✔✔Double
process
✔✔What would you use for dramatically lighter hair color? - ✔✔Prelightening
✔✔What is not determined by a strand test in a color service? - ✔✔How much color to
use for the service
✔✔Where do guidelines for human blood and body fluids come form? - ✔✔Universal
precautions
✔✔What are the qualifications to be an EPA approved disinfectant? - ✔✔A virucide,
fungicide, bactericide and disinfectant
✔✔What is not a function of the excretory system? - ✔✔Regulating metabolic rate
✔✔Electrotherapy treatment is used for.. - ✔✔To soften and emulsify grease deposits
✔✔What hair textures have the largest diameter? - ✔✔Coarse
✔✔In which phase of hair growth is new hair produced? - ✔✔Anagen
✔✔What hair types has the smallest diameter and is more fragile? - ✔✔Fine hair texture
✔✔What is true about hair growth? - ✔✔Growth patterns are important when removing
hair
✔✔What best describes reflective listening? - ✔✔Listening to your client and repeating
what you think was said
✔✔What is the main ingredient in traditional waving lotions? - ✔✔Karaya gum
✔✔What is the most effective method of creating a natural looking wig? - ✔✔Taper
ends
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔What should be used when massaging the clients scalp during a scalp massage? -
✔✔Fingertips
✔✔The most important factors to consider in hair analysis does not include - ✔✔Growth
pattern
✔✔What type of shampoo contains an active agent that binds to metals and removes
them from the hair? - ✔✔Clarifying shampoo
✔✔What conditioners should not be used on braids? - ✔✔Creamy
✔✔What is the term for an oily cream used to protect the skin and scalp during hair
relaxing? - ✔✔Base cream
✔✔What is determined by the patch test? - ✔✔Allergic reactions
✔✔What is the name for wrapping a perm with one end paper placed under and
another placed over the strand of hair? - ✔✔Double flat wrap
✔✔When using a chemical relaxer, it changes the shape of the hair by breaking down
what? - ✔✔Disulfide bonds
✔✔When performing a basic perm, the hair should be divided into how many panels? -
✔✔9
✔✔What is the main ingredient in true acid and acid balanced waving lotions? -
✔✔Glycerol monothioglycolate
✔✔When using relaxers incorrectly, what could happen? - ✔✔The hair melts
, ✔✔In a relaxer, what active ingredient has a 9.6-10 pH? - ✔✔Ammonium Thioglycolate
✔✔When preparing for a virgin relaxer application, what would be done FIRST? -
✔✔Performing test for elasticity and porosity
✔✔What equalizes porosity? - ✔✔Fillers
✔✔Alkalizers have many roles, one of them not being... - ✔✔Making a physical change
✔✔What hair color procedures will lighten hair prior to depositing color? - ✔✔Double
process
✔✔What would you use for dramatically lighter hair color? - ✔✔Prelightening
✔✔What is not determined by a strand test in a color service? - ✔✔How much color to
use for the service
✔✔Where do guidelines for human blood and body fluids come form? - ✔✔Universal
precautions
✔✔What are the qualifications to be an EPA approved disinfectant? - ✔✔A virucide,
fungicide, bactericide and disinfectant
✔✔What is not a function of the excretory system? - ✔✔Regulating metabolic rate
✔✔Electrotherapy treatment is used for.. - ✔✔To soften and emulsify grease deposits
✔✔What hair textures have the largest diameter? - ✔✔Coarse
✔✔In which phase of hair growth is new hair produced? - ✔✔Anagen
✔✔What hair types has the smallest diameter and is more fragile? - ✔✔Fine hair texture
✔✔What is true about hair growth? - ✔✔Growth patterns are important when removing
hair
✔✔What best describes reflective listening? - ✔✔Listening to your client and repeating
what you think was said
✔✔What is the main ingredient in traditional waving lotions? - ✔✔Karaya gum
✔✔What is the most effective method of creating a natural looking wig? - ✔✔Taper
ends
