Cosmetology State Board California
Practice Exam With Questions And 100%
Correct Answers.
What is the fold of skin overlapping both sides of the nail, which may extend as far as the
first knuckle?
Answer: Eponychium
What is the area from the nail root to the free edge that contains no blood vessels or
nerves?
Answer: Nail plate/nail body
What term refers to bitten nails?
Answer: Onychophagy
What is the technical term for bitten nails?
Answer: Onychophagy
What can result from improper trimming of toenails?
Answer: Onychocryptosis
What are high-quality brushes used to fashion acrylic nails typically made from?
Answer: Sable
Which governmental agency mandates the use of a patch test (P.D. Test) prior to using
aniline tints?
Answer: FDA
Which governmental agency regulates cosmetics in the U.S.?
Answer: FDA
Which agency regulates and approves the efficacy of products for infection control?
Answer: EPA
Which governmental agency enforces health and safety standards for the workplace?
Answer: OSHA
What is "fallen hair"?
Answer: Non-Remy
What is the point where the nail enters the skin at the base of the nail called?
Answer: Eponychium
, What is the tissue between the free edge of the nail (distal edge) and the nail bed known as?
Answer: Hyponychium
What does pterygium refer to?
Answer: Forward growth of the cuticle
In the shears over comb method, what happens when the comb is held flat against the
head?
Answer: The hair will be longer
What are the most commonly used elevations in haircutting?
Answer: 45 degrees and 90 degrees
What angle below 90 degrees is used primarily to achieve?
Answer: Build weight
What do angles above 90 degrees do in haircutting?
Answer: Remove weight
What is a "blunt cut" sometimes referred to as?
Answer: Zero elevation, solid form, one length
What do double-notched thinning shears have?
Answer: Both blades are serrated
A blunt cut is a good technique for which type of hair?
Answer: Fine hair
What will using "double-notched" shears do?
Answer: Remove less hair than single-notched shears
A uniform layered cut (same length throughout) is cut at what angle/degree?
Answer: 90 degrees
What is a haircut using a 0-degree/angle referred to as?
Answer: Blunt cut, BOB, solid form
If a client wants longer layers in a graduated cut, what angles/degrees would you use?
Answer: A combination of 45 and 90 degrees
What angle creates the longest possible layers for a client?
Answer: 180 degrees
What angle/degrees would provide the most movement in a haircut?
Answer: 180 degrees
Practice Exam With Questions And 100%
Correct Answers.
What is the fold of skin overlapping both sides of the nail, which may extend as far as the
first knuckle?
Answer: Eponychium
What is the area from the nail root to the free edge that contains no blood vessels or
nerves?
Answer: Nail plate/nail body
What term refers to bitten nails?
Answer: Onychophagy
What is the technical term for bitten nails?
Answer: Onychophagy
What can result from improper trimming of toenails?
Answer: Onychocryptosis
What are high-quality brushes used to fashion acrylic nails typically made from?
Answer: Sable
Which governmental agency mandates the use of a patch test (P.D. Test) prior to using
aniline tints?
Answer: FDA
Which governmental agency regulates cosmetics in the U.S.?
Answer: FDA
Which agency regulates and approves the efficacy of products for infection control?
Answer: EPA
Which governmental agency enforces health and safety standards for the workplace?
Answer: OSHA
What is "fallen hair"?
Answer: Non-Remy
What is the point where the nail enters the skin at the base of the nail called?
Answer: Eponychium
, What is the tissue between the free edge of the nail (distal edge) and the nail bed known as?
Answer: Hyponychium
What does pterygium refer to?
Answer: Forward growth of the cuticle
In the shears over comb method, what happens when the comb is held flat against the
head?
Answer: The hair will be longer
What are the most commonly used elevations in haircutting?
Answer: 45 degrees and 90 degrees
What angle below 90 degrees is used primarily to achieve?
Answer: Build weight
What do angles above 90 degrees do in haircutting?
Answer: Remove weight
What is a "blunt cut" sometimes referred to as?
Answer: Zero elevation, solid form, one length
What do double-notched thinning shears have?
Answer: Both blades are serrated
A blunt cut is a good technique for which type of hair?
Answer: Fine hair
What will using "double-notched" shears do?
Answer: Remove less hair than single-notched shears
A uniform layered cut (same length throughout) is cut at what angle/degree?
Answer: 90 degrees
What is a haircut using a 0-degree/angle referred to as?
Answer: Blunt cut, BOB, solid form
If a client wants longer layers in a graduated cut, what angles/degrees would you use?
Answer: A combination of 45 and 90 degrees
What angle creates the longest possible layers for a client?
Answer: 180 degrees
What angle/degrees would provide the most movement in a haircut?
Answer: 180 degrees
