INDIANA PSI COSMETOLOGY CORE REVIEW
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔What can you not use to remove a callous from a foot? - ✔✔A blade
✔✔What is the first step if you get blood or other potentially infectious materials in your
eyes, nose, mouth or on broken skin? - ✔✔Immediately flood the exposed area with
water
✔✔What is the best way to describe the substance in conditioners that absorbs or
promotes the retention of moisture? - ✔✔Humectants
✔✔Deep conditioning treatments penetrate what layer of hair? - ✔✔Cuticle
✔✔What procedure must be done first for a shampoo service? - ✔✔Drape the client
✔✔What best describes a procedure or condition that may produce undesirable side
effects during a scalp massage due to any medical issues a client may have? -
✔✔Contraindicated
✔✔What condition could be determined during a scalp evaluation on a client who has
brittle hair and red papules at the opening of the hair follicles? - ✔✔Tinea capitis
✔✔What conditioner should not be used on braids? - ✔✔Creamy
✔✔What is sewn to elastic strips in a circular pattern to fit the head shape? - ✔✔Wefts
✔✔ What bonds make permanent wave, curl reformation and chemical hair relaxing
possible? - ✔✔Disulfide bonds
✔✔What is the term for an oily cream used to protect the skin and scalp during hair
relaxing? - ✔✔Base cream
, ✔✔When using relaxers incorrectly, what could happen? - ✔✔The hair melts
✔✔What does the stylist look for during a scalp analysis for chemical procedures? -
✔✔Abrasions on scalp
✔✔What is the term for a permanent wrap when it is wrapped from the ends to the
scalp in overlapping layers? - ✔✔Croquignole
✔✔When analyzing the hair before a chemical relaxer, it is necessary to evaluate the
hair for everything but... - ✔✔Color
✔✔When using a chemical relaxer, it changes the shape of the hair by breaking down
what? - ✔✔Disulfide bonds
✔✔When preparing for a virgin relaxer application, what would be done first? -
✔✔Performing test for elasticity and porosity
✔✔In a relaxer, what active ingredients have a 9.6-10 pH? - ✔✔Ammonium
thioglycolate
✔✔What hair color procedures will lighten hair prior to depositing color? - ✔✔Double
process
✔✔What step would be performed prior to applying a single process color on virgin
hair? - ✔✔Parting dry hair
✔✔All of the following are roles of the alkalizer except - ✔✔Making a physical change
✔✔What would you use for dramatically lighter hair color? - ✔✔Prelightening
✔✔Fillers are used for all of the following EXCEPT - ✔✔Producing gray coverage
✔✔All of the following are color units of measurement EXCEPT - ✔✔Dominant
✔✔What is the least critical part of the hair color consultation? - ✔✔Look at client
through the mirror
✔✔What colors will result in a shortened processing time when using a lightener on
gray hair? - ✔✔Orange
✔✔What equalizes porosity? - ✔✔Fillers
✔✔What effects on your body is from the endocrine system? - ✔✔Hormone balance
ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔What can you not use to remove a callous from a foot? - ✔✔A blade
✔✔What is the first step if you get blood or other potentially infectious materials in your
eyes, nose, mouth or on broken skin? - ✔✔Immediately flood the exposed area with
water
✔✔What is the best way to describe the substance in conditioners that absorbs or
promotes the retention of moisture? - ✔✔Humectants
✔✔Deep conditioning treatments penetrate what layer of hair? - ✔✔Cuticle
✔✔What procedure must be done first for a shampoo service? - ✔✔Drape the client
✔✔What best describes a procedure or condition that may produce undesirable side
effects during a scalp massage due to any medical issues a client may have? -
✔✔Contraindicated
✔✔What condition could be determined during a scalp evaluation on a client who has
brittle hair and red papules at the opening of the hair follicles? - ✔✔Tinea capitis
✔✔What conditioner should not be used on braids? - ✔✔Creamy
✔✔What is sewn to elastic strips in a circular pattern to fit the head shape? - ✔✔Wefts
✔✔ What bonds make permanent wave, curl reformation and chemical hair relaxing
possible? - ✔✔Disulfide bonds
✔✔What is the term for an oily cream used to protect the skin and scalp during hair
relaxing? - ✔✔Base cream
, ✔✔When using relaxers incorrectly, what could happen? - ✔✔The hair melts
✔✔What does the stylist look for during a scalp analysis for chemical procedures? -
✔✔Abrasions on scalp
✔✔What is the term for a permanent wrap when it is wrapped from the ends to the
scalp in overlapping layers? - ✔✔Croquignole
✔✔When analyzing the hair before a chemical relaxer, it is necessary to evaluate the
hair for everything but... - ✔✔Color
✔✔When using a chemical relaxer, it changes the shape of the hair by breaking down
what? - ✔✔Disulfide bonds
✔✔When preparing for a virgin relaxer application, what would be done first? -
✔✔Performing test for elasticity and porosity
✔✔In a relaxer, what active ingredients have a 9.6-10 pH? - ✔✔Ammonium
thioglycolate
✔✔What hair color procedures will lighten hair prior to depositing color? - ✔✔Double
process
✔✔What step would be performed prior to applying a single process color on virgin
hair? - ✔✔Parting dry hair
✔✔All of the following are roles of the alkalizer except - ✔✔Making a physical change
✔✔What would you use for dramatically lighter hair color? - ✔✔Prelightening
✔✔Fillers are used for all of the following EXCEPT - ✔✔Producing gray coverage
✔✔All of the following are color units of measurement EXCEPT - ✔✔Dominant
✔✔What is the least critical part of the hair color consultation? - ✔✔Look at client
through the mirror
✔✔What colors will result in a shortened processing time when using a lightener on
gray hair? - ✔✔Orange
✔✔What equalizes porosity? - ✔✔Fillers
✔✔What effects on your body is from the endocrine system? - ✔✔Hormone balance
