MILADY ESTHETICS TEST ACTUAL ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Reconstructive surgery - ✔✔Defined as: restoring bodily function; necessary surgery
for accident survivors and those with congenital disfigurement or other diseases.
✔✔Reiki - ✔✔Universal life-force energy transmitted through the palms of the hands
that helps lift the spirits and provide balance to the whole self: body, mind, spirit.
✔✔Rhinoplasty - ✔✔Plastic or reconstructive surgery performed on the nose to change
or correct its appearance.
✔✔Band Lashes - ✔✔Also known as strip lashes; eyelash hairs on a strip that are
applied with adhesive to the natural lash line.
✔✔Cake Makeup - ✔✔Also known as pancake makeup; a heavy-coverage makeup
pressed into a compact and applied to the face with a moistened cosmetic sponge.
✔✔Complementary colors - ✔✔Primary and secondary colors opposite one another on
the color wheel.
✔✔Concealers - ✔✔Cosmetics used to cover blemishes and discolorations; may be
applied before or after foundation
✔✔Cool Colors - ✔✔Colors with a blue undertone that suggests coolness and are
dominated by blues, greens, violets, and blue-reds.
✔✔Eye tabbing - ✔✔Procedure in which individual synthetic lashes are attached
directly o a client's own lashes at their base.
✔✔Foundation - ✔✔Also known as base makeup; a tinted cosmetic used to cover or
even out the coloring of the skin.
✔✔Greasepaint - ✔✔Heavy makeup used for theatrical purposes.
,✔✔Individual lashes - ✔✔Separate artificial eyelashes that are applied to the eyelids
one at a time
✔✔Matte - ✔✔Nonshiny; dull
✔✔Primary colors - ✔✔Yellow, red, blue; fundamental colors that cannot be obtained
from a mixture
✔✔Secondary colors - ✔✔Colors obtained by mixing equal parts of two primary colors
✔✔Tertiary colors - ✔✔Intermediate colors achieved by mixing a secondary color and
its neighboring primary color on the color wheel in equal amounts.
✔✔Warm colors - ✔✔The range of colors with yellow undertones; from yellow and gold
through oranges, red-oranges, most reds, and even some yellow-greens.
✔✔Commission - ✔✔A method of compensation that is percentage-based and is
directly related to the employee's performance; for example, the employee earns a
certain percentage of whatever services he or she performs and/or a certain percentage
of the amount of product he or she sells.
✔✔Deductive Reasoning - ✔✔The process of reaching logical conclusions by
employing logical reasoning.
✔✔Franchised Salon or Spa - ✔✔A salon or spa owned by a individual(s) who pays a
certain fee to use the company name and is part of a larger organization or chain of
salons. It operates according to a specified business plan and set protocols.
✔✔Independent contractor - ✔✔Is someone who sets his or her own fees, controls his
or her own hours, has his or her own business card, and pays his or her own taxes.
✔✔Information Interview - ✔✔A scheduled meeting or conversation whose sole purpose
is to gather information.
✔✔Booth rental - ✔✔Arrangement in which the esthetician is required to pay the owner
a set rental fee, along with payment of utilities as agreed upon, to operate in a specific
space within the owner's establishment.
✔✔Business Plan - ✔✔Strategy for understanding key elements in developing
business; also serves as a guide to making informed business decisions; a written
description for your business as you see it today, and as you foresee it in the next year
(detailed by year).
, ✔✔Capital - ✔✔Money needed to invest in a business
✔✔Consumption Supplies - ✔✔Supplies used in the daily business operations.
✔✔Corporation - ✔✔Form of business ownership whereby one or more stockholders
share ownership; It is considered an independent legal entity separate and distinct from
its owners with its own rights, privileges, and liabilities.
✔✔Demographics - ✔✔The particular identifying characteristics of an area or
population, such as the specific size, age, sex, or ethnicity of its residents; average
income; educational attainment; and buying habits.
✔✔Employee Manual - ✔✔Handbook or guide for employees; contains important
general information about salon operations, such as the number of sick days or vacation
time allowed, holiday closings, how to call in late or sick, and the appropriate dress code
for estheticians.
✔✔Fixed Costs - ✔✔Operating costs that are constant, for example, rent and loan
payments.
✔✔Partnership - ✔✔Form of business ownership in which two or more people share
ownership, although this does not necessarily mean an equal arrangement. In a
partnership, each partner assumes the other's unlimited liability for debt. Profits are
shared among partners.
✔✔Personnel - ✔✔Employees; staff
✔✔Procedural Guide - ✔✔Manual or set of instructions designed to standardize
operations; supplies specific protocols for conducting individual services, such as the
expected method for performing a glycolic or microdermabrasion treatment.
✔✔Profit - ✔✔Amount of money available after all expenses are subtracted from all
revenues.
✔✔Public relations - ✔✔Planning and developing of relationships to achieve a certain
desired behavior.
✔✔Retail Supplies - ✔✔Items available for sale to clients.
✔✔Revenue - ✔✔Income generated from selling services and products, or money taken
in.
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Reconstructive surgery - ✔✔Defined as: restoring bodily function; necessary surgery
for accident survivors and those with congenital disfigurement or other diseases.
✔✔Reiki - ✔✔Universal life-force energy transmitted through the palms of the hands
that helps lift the spirits and provide balance to the whole self: body, mind, spirit.
✔✔Rhinoplasty - ✔✔Plastic or reconstructive surgery performed on the nose to change
or correct its appearance.
✔✔Band Lashes - ✔✔Also known as strip lashes; eyelash hairs on a strip that are
applied with adhesive to the natural lash line.
✔✔Cake Makeup - ✔✔Also known as pancake makeup; a heavy-coverage makeup
pressed into a compact and applied to the face with a moistened cosmetic sponge.
✔✔Complementary colors - ✔✔Primary and secondary colors opposite one another on
the color wheel.
✔✔Concealers - ✔✔Cosmetics used to cover blemishes and discolorations; may be
applied before or after foundation
✔✔Cool Colors - ✔✔Colors with a blue undertone that suggests coolness and are
dominated by blues, greens, violets, and blue-reds.
✔✔Eye tabbing - ✔✔Procedure in which individual synthetic lashes are attached
directly o a client's own lashes at their base.
✔✔Foundation - ✔✔Also known as base makeup; a tinted cosmetic used to cover or
even out the coloring of the skin.
✔✔Greasepaint - ✔✔Heavy makeup used for theatrical purposes.
,✔✔Individual lashes - ✔✔Separate artificial eyelashes that are applied to the eyelids
one at a time
✔✔Matte - ✔✔Nonshiny; dull
✔✔Primary colors - ✔✔Yellow, red, blue; fundamental colors that cannot be obtained
from a mixture
✔✔Secondary colors - ✔✔Colors obtained by mixing equal parts of two primary colors
✔✔Tertiary colors - ✔✔Intermediate colors achieved by mixing a secondary color and
its neighboring primary color on the color wheel in equal amounts.
✔✔Warm colors - ✔✔The range of colors with yellow undertones; from yellow and gold
through oranges, red-oranges, most reds, and even some yellow-greens.
✔✔Commission - ✔✔A method of compensation that is percentage-based and is
directly related to the employee's performance; for example, the employee earns a
certain percentage of whatever services he or she performs and/or a certain percentage
of the amount of product he or she sells.
✔✔Deductive Reasoning - ✔✔The process of reaching logical conclusions by
employing logical reasoning.
✔✔Franchised Salon or Spa - ✔✔A salon or spa owned by a individual(s) who pays a
certain fee to use the company name and is part of a larger organization or chain of
salons. It operates according to a specified business plan and set protocols.
✔✔Independent contractor - ✔✔Is someone who sets his or her own fees, controls his
or her own hours, has his or her own business card, and pays his or her own taxes.
✔✔Information Interview - ✔✔A scheduled meeting or conversation whose sole purpose
is to gather information.
✔✔Booth rental - ✔✔Arrangement in which the esthetician is required to pay the owner
a set rental fee, along with payment of utilities as agreed upon, to operate in a specific
space within the owner's establishment.
✔✔Business Plan - ✔✔Strategy for understanding key elements in developing
business; also serves as a guide to making informed business decisions; a written
description for your business as you see it today, and as you foresee it in the next year
(detailed by year).
, ✔✔Capital - ✔✔Money needed to invest in a business
✔✔Consumption Supplies - ✔✔Supplies used in the daily business operations.
✔✔Corporation - ✔✔Form of business ownership whereby one or more stockholders
share ownership; It is considered an independent legal entity separate and distinct from
its owners with its own rights, privileges, and liabilities.
✔✔Demographics - ✔✔The particular identifying characteristics of an area or
population, such as the specific size, age, sex, or ethnicity of its residents; average
income; educational attainment; and buying habits.
✔✔Employee Manual - ✔✔Handbook or guide for employees; contains important
general information about salon operations, such as the number of sick days or vacation
time allowed, holiday closings, how to call in late or sick, and the appropriate dress code
for estheticians.
✔✔Fixed Costs - ✔✔Operating costs that are constant, for example, rent and loan
payments.
✔✔Partnership - ✔✔Form of business ownership in which two or more people share
ownership, although this does not necessarily mean an equal arrangement. In a
partnership, each partner assumes the other's unlimited liability for debt. Profits are
shared among partners.
✔✔Personnel - ✔✔Employees; staff
✔✔Procedural Guide - ✔✔Manual or set of instructions designed to standardize
operations; supplies specific protocols for conducting individual services, such as the
expected method for performing a glycolic or microdermabrasion treatment.
✔✔Profit - ✔✔Amount of money available after all expenses are subtracted from all
revenues.
✔✔Public relations - ✔✔Planning and developing of relationships to achieve a certain
desired behavior.
✔✔Retail Supplies - ✔✔Items available for sale to clients.
✔✔Revenue - ✔✔Income generated from selling services and products, or money taken
in.
