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AP ESTHETICS STUDY GUIDE MINNESOTA
2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
1. What service is dermaplaning performed with? - correct answer -
Surgical blade
2. What does IPL stand for? - correct answer - Intense pulsed light
3. What are the 2 clinic exfoliation treatments? - correct answer - Chemical
and mechanical
4. For what reasons would someone receive a deeper peel performed only
by a physician? - correct answer - Extreme wrinkling and sun damage
5. What is photo rejuvenation? - correct answer - Using a laser or light
device to treat extreme and intense signs of aging
6. This device uses crystals or diamond tips to reduce skin irregularities -
correct answer - Microdermabrasion
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7. In medium level peeling performed by physicians, what layer is peeled?
- correct answer - Epidermis and part of the papillary dermis
8. Enzymes are proleolytric which means what? - correct answer - Protein
dissolving
9. PCI (or skin needling) stands for? - correct answer - Percutaneous
collagen induction
10. Dermaplaning is a manual exfoliation technique that is designed to do
what? - correct answer - Remove dead skin cells, debris, and vellus hair
11. Using a Woods Lamp, what color is normal skin? - correct answer -
Blueish white
12. What describes a combination skin type? - correct answer - Skin is
healthy color, soft and fine texture, small pores
13. The 5 different skin types are? - correct answer - Normal, oily, dry,
sensitive, combination
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14. Following an AHA peel, clients should not exercise or take hot
showers for how long? - correct answer - 48 hours
15. What acid is typically not used as a stand alone peel and is mixed
with another ingredient? - correct answer - Malic acid
16. Contraindications for dermaplaning would include? - correct answer -
Inflamed skin and acne
17. What areas of the skin would you need to apply a barrier to prior to a
chemical peel? - correct answer - Edge of lips, corners of nose, around
eyes
18. Mottling - correct answer - Freckles from sun exposure
19. Intrinsic aging - correct answer - Results of genetics
20. Extrinsic aging - correct answer - Controllable factors that contribute
to the aging of skin (example- sun exposure)
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21. Galvanic current is used for? - correct answer - Penetrating products
or solutions into the layer of the epidermis for maximum benefits
22. Phoresis - correct answer - Process of forcing a water based solution
into the skin by applying Galvanic current to the solution
23. Anaphoreisis - correct answer - Infusing an alkaline (negative)
product into the tissues from the negative pole to the positive pole
24. Cataphoresis - correct answer - Forcing an acidic (positive) product
into deeper tissue using Galvanic current from the positive pole toward
the negative pole
25. High Frequency current - correct answer - Can be used to stimulate
blood flow and help products penetrate
26. Chemical peel - correct answer - Technique for restoring wrinkled,
scarred, or blemished skin by applying an acid solution to peel away the
top layer of skin
27. Enzymes - correct answer - Work to dissolve the dead skin and
keratin
AP ESTHETICS STUDY GUIDE MINNESOTA
2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
1. What service is dermaplaning performed with? - correct answer -
Surgical blade
2. What does IPL stand for? - correct answer - Intense pulsed light
3. What are the 2 clinic exfoliation treatments? - correct answer - Chemical
and mechanical
4. For what reasons would someone receive a deeper peel performed only
by a physician? - correct answer - Extreme wrinkling and sun damage
5. What is photo rejuvenation? - correct answer - Using a laser or light
device to treat extreme and intense signs of aging
6. This device uses crystals or diamond tips to reduce skin irregularities -
correct answer - Microdermabrasion
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7. In medium level peeling performed by physicians, what layer is peeled?
- correct answer - Epidermis and part of the papillary dermis
8. Enzymes are proleolytric which means what? - correct answer - Protein
dissolving
9. PCI (or skin needling) stands for? - correct answer - Percutaneous
collagen induction
10. Dermaplaning is a manual exfoliation technique that is designed to do
what? - correct answer - Remove dead skin cells, debris, and vellus hair
11. Using a Woods Lamp, what color is normal skin? - correct answer -
Blueish white
12. What describes a combination skin type? - correct answer - Skin is
healthy color, soft and fine texture, small pores
13. The 5 different skin types are? - correct answer - Normal, oily, dry,
sensitive, combination
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14. Following an AHA peel, clients should not exercise or take hot
showers for how long? - correct answer - 48 hours
15. What acid is typically not used as a stand alone peel and is mixed
with another ingredient? - correct answer - Malic acid
16. Contraindications for dermaplaning would include? - correct answer -
Inflamed skin and acne
17. What areas of the skin would you need to apply a barrier to prior to a
chemical peel? - correct answer - Edge of lips, corners of nose, around
eyes
18. Mottling - correct answer - Freckles from sun exposure
19. Intrinsic aging - correct answer - Results of genetics
20. Extrinsic aging - correct answer - Controllable factors that contribute
to the aging of skin (example- sun exposure)
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21. Galvanic current is used for? - correct answer - Penetrating products
or solutions into the layer of the epidermis for maximum benefits
22. Phoresis - correct answer - Process of forcing a water based solution
into the skin by applying Galvanic current to the solution
23. Anaphoreisis - correct answer - Infusing an alkaline (negative)
product into the tissues from the negative pole to the positive pole
24. Cataphoresis - correct answer - Forcing an acidic (positive) product
into deeper tissue using Galvanic current from the positive pole toward
the negative pole
25. High Frequency current - correct answer - Can be used to stimulate
blood flow and help products penetrate
26. Chemical peel - correct answer - Technique for restoring wrinkled,
scarred, or blemished skin by applying an acid solution to peel away the
top layer of skin
27. Enzymes - correct answer - Work to dissolve the dead skin and
keratin
