Milady Cosmetology Chapter 21 Review
Questions & Answers 2025
Why do people color their hair? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔cover up
or blend gray; enhance an existing haircolor; fashions statement; self
expression; correct unwanted tones; accentuate haircut
How does the hair's porosity affect haircolor? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Porous hair accecpts color faster. Application on porous hair can
result in cooler tone than applications on less porous hair. low-longer
process time; average-avg process time; high-quick, but can also fade
quickly.
How many types of melanin are found in hair? Describe each. -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Eumelanin-black and brown
Pheomelanin-blonde and red
Mixed melanin-contains both eumelanin & pheomelanin
What are levels? What does the level system help you to determine
when formulating haircolor? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The level
system helps hair colorists to determine the lightness or darkness of a
hair color. Scale of 1-10. The scale is used to identify the degrees of
lightness to darkness (depth) in each level.
Name the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Primary: Blue, Red, Yellow
Secondary: Violet, Orange, Green
, Milady Cosmetology Chapter 21 Review
Questions & Answers 2025
Tertiary: Blue-Violet; Red-Violet; Blue-Green; Yellow-Green; Yellow-
Orange; Red-Orange
What is the role of tone and intensity in haircolor? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Tone or hue is the balance of color. Tells us what
color to use to achieve the client's desired results (warm, cool, neutral)
Intensity is the strength of a color (soft, med, strong) Color intensifiers
can be added to a formula to intensify the result.
What are the categories of haircolor? Describe each. 1 & 2 - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Temporary Color: lg pigment molecules only coat the
hair; physical change only; easily washed out; creates fun bold results
Semipermanent: no lift, deposit only; lasts through several shampoos;
partially penetrate hair shaft and stain the cuticle layer; subtle color
results; tones prelightened hair
What are the categories of haircolor? Describe each. 3 & 4 - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Demipermanent: no lift, deposit-only color. Deposit
but not lighten color. Blends gray, enhance natural color, tones pre-lit
hair, refreshes faded color, filler in color correction
Permanent: lighten and deposit color at the same time-single process-
more alkaline with higher vol developer. Change existing haircolor;
covers gray; creates bright or natural-looking haircolor changes.
Questions & Answers 2025
Why do people color their hair? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔cover up
or blend gray; enhance an existing haircolor; fashions statement; self
expression; correct unwanted tones; accentuate haircut
How does the hair's porosity affect haircolor? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Porous hair accecpts color faster. Application on porous hair can
result in cooler tone than applications on less porous hair. low-longer
process time; average-avg process time; high-quick, but can also fade
quickly.
How many types of melanin are found in hair? Describe each. -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Eumelanin-black and brown
Pheomelanin-blonde and red
Mixed melanin-contains both eumelanin & pheomelanin
What are levels? What does the level system help you to determine
when formulating haircolor? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The level
system helps hair colorists to determine the lightness or darkness of a
hair color. Scale of 1-10. The scale is used to identify the degrees of
lightness to darkness (depth) in each level.
Name the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔Primary: Blue, Red, Yellow
Secondary: Violet, Orange, Green
, Milady Cosmetology Chapter 21 Review
Questions & Answers 2025
Tertiary: Blue-Violet; Red-Violet; Blue-Green; Yellow-Green; Yellow-
Orange; Red-Orange
What is the role of tone and intensity in haircolor? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Tone or hue is the balance of color. Tells us what
color to use to achieve the client's desired results (warm, cool, neutral)
Intensity is the strength of a color (soft, med, strong) Color intensifiers
can be added to a formula to intensify the result.
What are the categories of haircolor? Describe each. 1 & 2 - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Temporary Color: lg pigment molecules only coat the
hair; physical change only; easily washed out; creates fun bold results
Semipermanent: no lift, deposit only; lasts through several shampoos;
partially penetrate hair shaft and stain the cuticle layer; subtle color
results; tones prelightened hair
What are the categories of haircolor? Describe each. 3 & 4 - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔Demipermanent: no lift, deposit-only color. Deposit
but not lighten color. Blends gray, enhance natural color, tones pre-lit
hair, refreshes faded color, filler in color correction
Permanent: lighten and deposit color at the same time-single process-
more alkaline with higher vol developer. Change existing haircolor;
covers gray; creates bright or natural-looking haircolor changes.
