Cosmetology State Board Practice
Test (146 questions and Answers)
Corrugations - -Nail disorder - Horizontal wavy ridges caused by uneven
growth due to illness or injuries.
- Furrows - -Nail disorder - vertical lines down the nail plate caused by
nutrition, injury or illness.
- Leuconchia - -White spots on the nail caused by injury to the base of the
nail
- Onychorrhexis - -Split or brittle nails caused by injury, careless filing,
vitamin deficiencies, illness, and frequent exposure to strong chemicals.
- Hang Nails - -Caused by dry cuticle and carlessness in removing the
cuticle
- Onychomycosis Unguium - -Nail fungus caused by a parasite. very
contagious
- Onychocryptosis - -Ingrown nail caused by filing the nail too much, or tight
fitting shoes.
- Verruca - -Warts caused by infectious virus
- Onycholysis - -lifting of the nail without shedding
- 5 Basic Nail Shapes - -squoval, round, oval, pointed, square
- Toner - -used on pre-lightened hair to achieve pale and delicate colors
after decoloring
- Conditioning filler - -protein conditioner that will equalize porosity and fill
the holes
- Color filler - -used to replace the missing primary colors
- Oxidative - -Demi- permenant and permenant color
- Non-oxidative color - -temporary - physical change only. Semi-permanent.
- Double process blonde - -decolorizing and toning
, - What affects lightener working time? - -Melanin - the more there is the
longer the process. Scalp processes faster because of body heat
- Lift - -lightening by breaking up the melanin to decolorize hair
- Deposit - -means that product only deposits color because it does not
contain ammonia or high alkalinity necessary to lift
- developer - -oxidizing agent H2O2 when mixed with ammonia it will break
up the melanin and give ability to lift or lighten
- Semi-permanent color - -non-oxidative, temporary color, stains cuticle,
fades in each shampoo.
- Demi-permanent color - -oxidative, deposit only, deepens or changes the
tone
- Permanent color - -lightens and deposits at the same time. more alkaline
ingredients, penetrates the cortex, can't shampoo out
- Primary colors - -Red, Blue, Yellow
- Brown - -unequal combo of primary color
- Black - -Equal parts of primary colors
- Warm tones - -red, orange, yellow
- Cool tones - -blue, green, violet
- Neutral tones - -perfect combo of both cool and warm tones
- Eumelanin - -Brown to black pigments
- Pheomelanin - -Red to yellow pigments
- Coarse texture - -largest diameter, greatest amount of melanin,
processing time and lift is affected
- medium texture - -has a balance of melanin, typically no problems
- Fine texture - -smallest diameter, least amount of melanin, more
susceptible to darker drabber results, more prone to damage
Test (146 questions and Answers)
Corrugations - -Nail disorder - Horizontal wavy ridges caused by uneven
growth due to illness or injuries.
- Furrows - -Nail disorder - vertical lines down the nail plate caused by
nutrition, injury or illness.
- Leuconchia - -White spots on the nail caused by injury to the base of the
nail
- Onychorrhexis - -Split or brittle nails caused by injury, careless filing,
vitamin deficiencies, illness, and frequent exposure to strong chemicals.
- Hang Nails - -Caused by dry cuticle and carlessness in removing the
cuticle
- Onychomycosis Unguium - -Nail fungus caused by a parasite. very
contagious
- Onychocryptosis - -Ingrown nail caused by filing the nail too much, or tight
fitting shoes.
- Verruca - -Warts caused by infectious virus
- Onycholysis - -lifting of the nail without shedding
- 5 Basic Nail Shapes - -squoval, round, oval, pointed, square
- Toner - -used on pre-lightened hair to achieve pale and delicate colors
after decoloring
- Conditioning filler - -protein conditioner that will equalize porosity and fill
the holes
- Color filler - -used to replace the missing primary colors
- Oxidative - -Demi- permenant and permenant color
- Non-oxidative color - -temporary - physical change only. Semi-permanent.
- Double process blonde - -decolorizing and toning
, - What affects lightener working time? - -Melanin - the more there is the
longer the process. Scalp processes faster because of body heat
- Lift - -lightening by breaking up the melanin to decolorize hair
- Deposit - -means that product only deposits color because it does not
contain ammonia or high alkalinity necessary to lift
- developer - -oxidizing agent H2O2 when mixed with ammonia it will break
up the melanin and give ability to lift or lighten
- Semi-permanent color - -non-oxidative, temporary color, stains cuticle,
fades in each shampoo.
- Demi-permanent color - -oxidative, deposit only, deepens or changes the
tone
- Permanent color - -lightens and deposits at the same time. more alkaline
ingredients, penetrates the cortex, can't shampoo out
- Primary colors - -Red, Blue, Yellow
- Brown - -unequal combo of primary color
- Black - -Equal parts of primary colors
- Warm tones - -red, orange, yellow
- Cool tones - -blue, green, violet
- Neutral tones - -perfect combo of both cool and warm tones
- Eumelanin - -Brown to black pigments
- Pheomelanin - -Red to yellow pigments
- Coarse texture - -largest diameter, greatest amount of melanin,
processing time and lift is affected
- medium texture - -has a balance of melanin, typically no problems
- Fine texture - -smallest diameter, least amount of melanin, more
susceptible to darker drabber results, more prone to damage
