NYS COSMETOLOGY TEST PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Permanent waving lotion - ✔✔Causes hair to soften and swell
✔✔Coarse Hair - ✔✔Should never be thinned too close to the scalp
✔✔Fine hair - ✔✔Can be thinned closer to the scalp
✔✔Never thin hair - ✔✔Close to the ends because it leaves hair lifeless
✔✔Hair should be damp - ✔✔If cutting with a razor or it will pull and hurt
✔✔Curl outcome in permanent waving - ✔✔Determined by the size of the rod
✔✔Alkalizing agents - ✔✔Needed to soften and swell hair which can also be called
reducing agents
✔✔Active ingredient in a cold wave - ✔✔Ammonium Thioglycolate
✔✔Active ingredient in acid wave - ✔✔Glycerol monothioglycolate
✔✔Arrector pili - ✔✔The muscle that causes goosebumps and also pushes out the old
hair and the new hair. This muscle warms us up by holding body heat in
✔✔Endothermic heat - ✔✔Needed from an outside source (hood dryer)
✔✔Concave rods - ✔✔Smaller in the middle of the rod
✔✔Convex rods - ✔✔Wider in the middle of the rod
✔✔Brick layer wrap - ✔✔Staggering rod placement like a brick wall
✔✔Sebaceous gland - ✔✔The oil gland that secretes sebum (oil) and gives shine to the
hair
✔✔Soft curl perms - ✔✔Use a larger rod to control tighter out of control curly hair
✔✔Apply protective cream - ✔✔When perming
✔✔Eponychium - ✔✔The cuticle on top of the nail
✔✔Hyponychium - ✔✔The cuticle under the free edge of the nail
, ✔✔Hair and nails - ✔✔`Are chiefly composted of keratin
✔✔Tinea - ✔✔Ring worm also known as athletes foot; is contagious
✔✔Onychaphagy - ✔✔Nail biting
✔✔A nail paper - ✔✔Has to cover the whole nail
✔✔Manis - ✔✔Is nails
✔✔Pedis - ✔✔Is feet
✔✔Alopeciai areata - ✔✔Is baldness in spots
✔✔Canities - ✔✔Gray hair and is hard to process
✔✔Removing oil - ✔✔The skin use a toner or astringent
✔✔Epidermis - ✔✔Scarf skin that sheds and has four layers
✔✔Dermis - ✔✔Under the epidermis and called true skin
✔✔Comedone - ✔✔Blackhead
✔✔Water - ✔✔Neutral on the pH scale
✔✔Alkaline - ✔✔Harsh and above 7 on the pH scale
✔✔Acid - ✔✔Gentle and below 7 on the pH scale
✔✔Lanthionine bonds - ✔✔Created by lanthionization which is a process where
hydroxide relaxers permanently straighten the hair by removing a sulfer atom from a
disulfide bond and then convertin git to a lathionine bond
✔✔Certified color - ✔✔FDA approved
✔✔Temporary color - ✔✔Only deposits color- has the largest molecules and they are
too big to penetrate the hair shaft and only coats it
✔✔Semi-permanent color - ✔✔No lift, non-oxidation color so its not mixed with
peroxide; designed to last 4 to 6 washes it will gradually fade
AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Permanent waving lotion - ✔✔Causes hair to soften and swell
✔✔Coarse Hair - ✔✔Should never be thinned too close to the scalp
✔✔Fine hair - ✔✔Can be thinned closer to the scalp
✔✔Never thin hair - ✔✔Close to the ends because it leaves hair lifeless
✔✔Hair should be damp - ✔✔If cutting with a razor or it will pull and hurt
✔✔Curl outcome in permanent waving - ✔✔Determined by the size of the rod
✔✔Alkalizing agents - ✔✔Needed to soften and swell hair which can also be called
reducing agents
✔✔Active ingredient in a cold wave - ✔✔Ammonium Thioglycolate
✔✔Active ingredient in acid wave - ✔✔Glycerol monothioglycolate
✔✔Arrector pili - ✔✔The muscle that causes goosebumps and also pushes out the old
hair and the new hair. This muscle warms us up by holding body heat in
✔✔Endothermic heat - ✔✔Needed from an outside source (hood dryer)
✔✔Concave rods - ✔✔Smaller in the middle of the rod
✔✔Convex rods - ✔✔Wider in the middle of the rod
✔✔Brick layer wrap - ✔✔Staggering rod placement like a brick wall
✔✔Sebaceous gland - ✔✔The oil gland that secretes sebum (oil) and gives shine to the
hair
✔✔Soft curl perms - ✔✔Use a larger rod to control tighter out of control curly hair
✔✔Apply protective cream - ✔✔When perming
✔✔Eponychium - ✔✔The cuticle on top of the nail
✔✔Hyponychium - ✔✔The cuticle under the free edge of the nail
, ✔✔Hair and nails - ✔✔`Are chiefly composted of keratin
✔✔Tinea - ✔✔Ring worm also known as athletes foot; is contagious
✔✔Onychaphagy - ✔✔Nail biting
✔✔A nail paper - ✔✔Has to cover the whole nail
✔✔Manis - ✔✔Is nails
✔✔Pedis - ✔✔Is feet
✔✔Alopeciai areata - ✔✔Is baldness in spots
✔✔Canities - ✔✔Gray hair and is hard to process
✔✔Removing oil - ✔✔The skin use a toner or astringent
✔✔Epidermis - ✔✔Scarf skin that sheds and has four layers
✔✔Dermis - ✔✔Under the epidermis and called true skin
✔✔Comedone - ✔✔Blackhead
✔✔Water - ✔✔Neutral on the pH scale
✔✔Alkaline - ✔✔Harsh and above 7 on the pH scale
✔✔Acid - ✔✔Gentle and below 7 on the pH scale
✔✔Lanthionine bonds - ✔✔Created by lanthionization which is a process where
hydroxide relaxers permanently straighten the hair by removing a sulfer atom from a
disulfide bond and then convertin git to a lathionine bond
✔✔Certified color - ✔✔FDA approved
✔✔Temporary color - ✔✔Only deposits color- has the largest molecules and they are
too big to penetrate the hair shaft and only coats it
✔✔Semi-permanent color - ✔✔No lift, non-oxidation color so its not mixed with
peroxide; designed to last 4 to 6 washes it will gradually fade
