TENNESSEE WRITTEN STATE BOARD
EXAM PREP (ESTHETICIAN)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED
(2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Depilatory - ANS ✓Temporary hair removal at skin level
Aging - ANS ✓Lines and damage from internal and external causes
Retention hyperkeratinosis - ANS ✓Dead skin cells
Nanotechnology - ANS ✓Manipulating materials on an atomic or molecular
scale
Thermolysis - ANS ✓Destroying hair follicles by burning them
Oily skin should not be - ANS ✓Waxed
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Contraindications for facial waxing - ANS ✓Cosmetic surgery, recent laser
treatments, recent reconstructive surgery
Sanitizing - ANS ✓Reduces disease causing germs
Keloid - ANS ✓Thick scar (collagen)
Impetigo - ANS ✓Contagious bacterial infection (clusters of blisters)
Keratosis Pilaris - ANS ✓Red bumps in cheeks cause by blocked follicles
Hypertrophy - ANS ✓Abnormal growth
Hyperkeratosis - ANS ✓Thickening of skin
Asteatosis - ANS ✓Dry, scaly skin
Steatoma - ANS ✓Cyst filled with sebum
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