Oregon Cosmetology State Board- Hair All Answers Correct
1. What layer of the hair provides strength and elasticity?
Answer: The cortex.
2. What determines hair texture in individual strands?
Answer: Diameter.
3. If the cuticle is lifted, allowing hair to take color quickly, what does it mean?
Answer: High porosity.
4. How are hair color levels arranged on a scale?
Answer: From 1 to 10.
5. What can hair color tones be described as?
Answer: Warm, neutral, or cool.
6. What are colors that are described as sandy or tan considered?
Answer: Natural tones.
7. Which color will help minimize orange tones in the hair?
Answer: Blue.
, 8. What are pure or fundamental colors that cannot be achieved from a mixture?
Answer: Primary colors.
9. What is the strongest and only cool primary color?
Answer: Blue.
10. How will red added to blue-based colors appear?
Answer: Lighter.
11. What type of color is achieved by mixing a secondary color and its neighboring primary color?
Answer: Tertiary.
12. What will equal proportions of primary colors produce at different levels of color?
Answer: Grey, white, or black.
13. Why do temporary color pigment molecules not penetrate the hair shaft?
Answer: Because they are large.
14. How long does semipermanent hair color typically last on average?
Answer: 4-6 weeks.
1. What layer of the hair provides strength and elasticity?
Answer: The cortex.
2. What determines hair texture in individual strands?
Answer: Diameter.
3. If the cuticle is lifted, allowing hair to take color quickly, what does it mean?
Answer: High porosity.
4. How are hair color levels arranged on a scale?
Answer: From 1 to 10.
5. What can hair color tones be described as?
Answer: Warm, neutral, or cool.
6. What are colors that are described as sandy or tan considered?
Answer: Natural tones.
7. Which color will help minimize orange tones in the hair?
Answer: Blue.
, 8. What are pure or fundamental colors that cannot be achieved from a mixture?
Answer: Primary colors.
9. What is the strongest and only cool primary color?
Answer: Blue.
10. How will red added to blue-based colors appear?
Answer: Lighter.
11. What type of color is achieved by mixing a secondary color and its neighboring primary color?
Answer: Tertiary.
12. What will equal proportions of primary colors produce at different levels of color?
Answer: Grey, white, or black.
13. Why do temporary color pigment molecules not penetrate the hair shaft?
Answer: Because they are large.
14. How long does semipermanent hair color typically last on average?
Answer: 4-6 weeks.
