COSMETOLOGY STATE BOARD
PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECTLY SOLVED
ANSWERS.
Corrugations -- Answer ✔✔ Nail disorder - Horizontal wavy ridges
caused by uneven growth due to illness or injuries.
Furrows -- Answer ✔✔ Nail disorder - vertical lines down the nail plate
caused by nutrition, injury or illness.
Leukonychia -- Answer ✔✔ White spots on the nail caused by injury to
the base of the nail
Onychorrhexis -- Answer ✔✔ Split or brittle nails caused by injury,
careless filing, vitamin deficiencies, illness, and frequent exposure to
strong chemicals.
Hang Nails -- Answer ✔✔ Caused by dry cuticle and carelessness in
removing the cuticle
Onychomycosis Unguium -- Answer ✔✔ Nail fungus caused by a
parasite. very contagious
Onychogryphosis -- Answer ✔✔ Ingrown nail caused by filing the nail
too much, or tight fitting shoes.
Verruca -- Answer ✔✔ Warts caused by infectious virus
Onycholysis -- Answer ✔✔ lifting of the nail without shedding
, 5 Basic Nail Shapes -- Answer ✔✔ squoval, round, oval, pointed,
square
Toner -- Answer ✔✔ used on pre-lightened hair to achieve pale and
delicate colors after decoloring
Conditioning filler -- Answer ✔✔ protein conditioner that will equalize
porosity and fill the holes
Color filler -- Answer ✔✔ used to replace the missing primary colors
Oxidative -- Answer ✔✔ Demi- permanent and permanent color
Non-oxidative color -- Answer ✔✔ temporary - physical change only.
Semi-permanent.
Double process blonde -- Answer ✔✔ decolorizing and toning
What affects lightener working time? -- Answer ✔✔ Melanin - the more
there is the longer the process. Scalp processes faster because of body
heat
Lift -- Answer ✔✔ lightening by breaking up the melanin to decolorize
hair
Deposit -- Answer ✔✔ means that product only deposits color because
it does not contain ammonia or high alkalinity necessary to lift
developer -- Answer ✔✔ oxidizing agent H2O2 when mixed with
ammonia it will break up the melanin and give ability to lift or lighten
Semi-permanent color -- Answer ✔✔ non-oxidative, temporary color,
stains cuticle, fades in each shampoo.
Demi-permanent color -- Answer ✔✔ oxidative, deposit only, deepens
or changes the tone
PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECTLY SOLVED
ANSWERS.
Corrugations -- Answer ✔✔ Nail disorder - Horizontal wavy ridges
caused by uneven growth due to illness or injuries.
Furrows -- Answer ✔✔ Nail disorder - vertical lines down the nail plate
caused by nutrition, injury or illness.
Leukonychia -- Answer ✔✔ White spots on the nail caused by injury to
the base of the nail
Onychorrhexis -- Answer ✔✔ Split or brittle nails caused by injury,
careless filing, vitamin deficiencies, illness, and frequent exposure to
strong chemicals.
Hang Nails -- Answer ✔✔ Caused by dry cuticle and carelessness in
removing the cuticle
Onychomycosis Unguium -- Answer ✔✔ Nail fungus caused by a
parasite. very contagious
Onychogryphosis -- Answer ✔✔ Ingrown nail caused by filing the nail
too much, or tight fitting shoes.
Verruca -- Answer ✔✔ Warts caused by infectious virus
Onycholysis -- Answer ✔✔ lifting of the nail without shedding
, 5 Basic Nail Shapes -- Answer ✔✔ squoval, round, oval, pointed,
square
Toner -- Answer ✔✔ used on pre-lightened hair to achieve pale and
delicate colors after decoloring
Conditioning filler -- Answer ✔✔ protein conditioner that will equalize
porosity and fill the holes
Color filler -- Answer ✔✔ used to replace the missing primary colors
Oxidative -- Answer ✔✔ Demi- permanent and permanent color
Non-oxidative color -- Answer ✔✔ temporary - physical change only.
Semi-permanent.
Double process blonde -- Answer ✔✔ decolorizing and toning
What affects lightener working time? -- Answer ✔✔ Melanin - the more
there is the longer the process. Scalp processes faster because of body
heat
Lift -- Answer ✔✔ lightening by breaking up the melanin to decolorize
hair
Deposit -- Answer ✔✔ means that product only deposits color because
it does not contain ammonia or high alkalinity necessary to lift
developer -- Answer ✔✔ oxidizing agent H2O2 when mixed with
ammonia it will break up the melanin and give ability to lift or lighten
Semi-permanent color -- Answer ✔✔ non-oxidative, temporary color,
stains cuticle, fades in each shampoo.
Demi-permanent color -- Answer ✔✔ oxidative, deposit only, deepens
or changes the tone
