PA COSMETOLOGY EVALUATION EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔The most commonly used elevations in hair cutting are: - ✔✔45 degree and 90
degree
✔✔A angle below 90 degrees, is used primarily to: - ✔✔Build weight
✔✔angle above 90 degrees are used to: - ✔✔remove weight
✔✔A "blunt cut", is sometimes referred to as: - ✔✔Zero elevation/degree, solid form,
one length
✔✔Using "double-notched" shears will have which of the following effects: - ✔✔Remove
less hair than single-notched
✔✔A blunt cut is a good technique for use with - ✔✔fine hair
✔✔A uniformed layered cut (same length throughout) is cut at what angle/degree: -
✔✔90
✔✔A haircut using a ) degree/angle is referred to as - ✔✔Bob, blunt cut, solid form
✔✔Your client wants longer layer in a graduated cut, what angles /degrees would you
use: - ✔✔A combination of 45 and 90 degrees
✔✔Which angle / degree would create the longest possible layers in a client's haircut? -
✔✔180 degrees
✔✔which angle / degree would provide the most movement? - ✔✔180 degrees
✔✔Type of guideline used in blunt cutting, or to create a gradual increase in length: -
✔✔Stationary
✔✔A light stoking movement, applied with either the hand or the finger tip is called: -
✔✔effleurage
✔✔A medium pressure, kneading or rolling motion is called: - ✔✔petrissage
✔✔A gentle tapping motion using the finger tips and moving - ✔✔tapotement
✔✔Galvanic current will produce what effect on the skin - ✔✔Mechanical and Chemical
, ✔✔Positive Galvanic current will have what effect on the skin? - ✔✔Acidify
✔✔Negative Galvanic current would have what effect on the skin? - ✔✔Alkaline
✔✔Another name for tesla (high frequency)current is: - ✔✔Violet gray
✔✔You have lightened your client's hair from Level 5 to Level 9, you then apply a blue
based Toner, what is the result: - ✔✔Yellow/ violet
✔✔You have lightened your client's hair from Level 3 to Level 6, what is the underlying
exposed warm pigment and what is the correct toner to create a neutral result; -
✔✔orange/blue
✔✔you have lightened your client's hair from level to level 5 to level 9, you then apply a
blue based toner, what is the result: - ✔✔green
✔✔When giving a facial massage, the correct order of movement is: - ✔✔from bottom
to top
✔✔This is the least common skin type: - ✔✔normal
✔✔The amount or number of hair on a person head per square inch is referred to as -
✔✔Density
✔✔The most commonly used current in the salon is - ✔✔Galvanic
✔✔Another term or expression meaning to "close the pores", is: - ✔✔Contact the pores
or tissues
✔✔What effect will acids tend to have on the pores? - ✔✔Close or contract them
✔✔Astringents are generally used to: - ✔✔Contract the pores or tissues
✔✔Astringents are usually: - ✔✔acid
✔✔Styptics are astringents that are used to stop bleeding because they: - ✔✔contract
the pores or tissues
✔✔A neutralizer has which of the following actions on the hair? - ✔✔re-bond the hair
into a new shape
✔✔Porosity refers to - ✔✔the hairs ability to absorb moisture
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔The most commonly used elevations in hair cutting are: - ✔✔45 degree and 90
degree
✔✔A angle below 90 degrees, is used primarily to: - ✔✔Build weight
✔✔angle above 90 degrees are used to: - ✔✔remove weight
✔✔A "blunt cut", is sometimes referred to as: - ✔✔Zero elevation/degree, solid form,
one length
✔✔Using "double-notched" shears will have which of the following effects: - ✔✔Remove
less hair than single-notched
✔✔A blunt cut is a good technique for use with - ✔✔fine hair
✔✔A uniformed layered cut (same length throughout) is cut at what angle/degree: -
✔✔90
✔✔A haircut using a ) degree/angle is referred to as - ✔✔Bob, blunt cut, solid form
✔✔Your client wants longer layer in a graduated cut, what angles /degrees would you
use: - ✔✔A combination of 45 and 90 degrees
✔✔Which angle / degree would create the longest possible layers in a client's haircut? -
✔✔180 degrees
✔✔which angle / degree would provide the most movement? - ✔✔180 degrees
✔✔Type of guideline used in blunt cutting, or to create a gradual increase in length: -
✔✔Stationary
✔✔A light stoking movement, applied with either the hand or the finger tip is called: -
✔✔effleurage
✔✔A medium pressure, kneading or rolling motion is called: - ✔✔petrissage
✔✔A gentle tapping motion using the finger tips and moving - ✔✔tapotement
✔✔Galvanic current will produce what effect on the skin - ✔✔Mechanical and Chemical
, ✔✔Positive Galvanic current will have what effect on the skin? - ✔✔Acidify
✔✔Negative Galvanic current would have what effect on the skin? - ✔✔Alkaline
✔✔Another name for tesla (high frequency)current is: - ✔✔Violet gray
✔✔You have lightened your client's hair from Level 5 to Level 9, you then apply a blue
based Toner, what is the result: - ✔✔Yellow/ violet
✔✔You have lightened your client's hair from Level 3 to Level 6, what is the underlying
exposed warm pigment and what is the correct toner to create a neutral result; -
✔✔orange/blue
✔✔you have lightened your client's hair from level to level 5 to level 9, you then apply a
blue based toner, what is the result: - ✔✔green
✔✔When giving a facial massage, the correct order of movement is: - ✔✔from bottom
to top
✔✔This is the least common skin type: - ✔✔normal
✔✔The amount or number of hair on a person head per square inch is referred to as -
✔✔Density
✔✔The most commonly used current in the salon is - ✔✔Galvanic
✔✔Another term or expression meaning to "close the pores", is: - ✔✔Contact the pores
or tissues
✔✔What effect will acids tend to have on the pores? - ✔✔Close or contract them
✔✔Astringents are generally used to: - ✔✔Contract the pores or tissues
✔✔Astringents are usually: - ✔✔acid
✔✔Styptics are astringents that are used to stop bleeding because they: - ✔✔contract
the pores or tissues
✔✔A neutralizer has which of the following actions on the hair? - ✔✔re-bond the hair
into a new shape
✔✔Porosity refers to - ✔✔the hairs ability to absorb moisture
