Cosmetology State Board Practice Test PDF with 146 Questions and Answers, Covering Hair, S, Exams of Cosmetology

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Cosmetology State Board
Practice Test (146 questions
and answers)
1) Corrugations - (Correct Answer) Nail disorder - Horizontal wavy ridges caused
by uneven growth due to illness or injuries.
2) Furrows - (Correct Answer) Nail disorder - vertical lines down the nail plate
caused by nutrition, injury or illness.
3) Leuconchia - (Correct Answer) White spots on the nail caused by injury to the
base of the nail
4) Onychorrhexis - (Correct Answer) Split or brittle nails caused by injury,
careless filing, vitamin deficiencies, illness, and frequent exposure to strong
chemicals.
5) Hang Nails - (Correct Answer) Caused by dry cuticle and carlessness in
removing the cuticle
6) Onychomycosis Unguium - (Correct Answer) Nail fungus caused by a parasite.
very contagious
7) Onychocryptosis - (Correct Answer) Ingrown nail caused by filing the nail too
much, or tight fitting shoes.
8) Verruca - (Correct Answer) Warts caused by infectious virus
9) Onycholysis - (Correct Answer) lifting of the nail without shedding
10) 5 Basic Nail Shapes - (Correct Answer) squoval, round, oval, pointed, square
11) Toner - (Correct Answer) used on pre-lightened hair to achieve pale and
delicate colors after decoloring
12) Conditioning filler - (Correct Answer) protein conditioner that will equalize
porosity and fill the holes
13) Color filler - (Correct Answer) used to replace the missing primary colors
14) Oxidative - (Correct Answer) Demi- permenant and permenant color
15) Non-oxidative color - (Correct Answer) temporary - physical change only.
Semi-permanent.
16) Double process blonde - (Correct Answer) decolorizing and toning
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Cosmetology State Board

Practice Test (146 questions

and answers)

  1. Corrugations - (Correct Answer) Nail disorder - Horizontal wavy ridges caused by uneven growth due to illness or injuries.
  2. Furrows - (Correct Answer) Nail disorder - vertical lines down the nail plate caused by nutrition, injury or illness.
  3. Leuconchia - (Correct Answer) White spots on the nail caused by injury to the base of the nail
  4. Onychorrhexis - (Correct Answer) Split or brittle nails caused by injury, careless filing, vitamin deficiencies, illness, and frequent exposure to strong chemicals.
  5. Hang Nails - (Correct Answer) Caused by dry cuticle and carlessness in removing the cuticle
  6. Onychomycosis Unguium - (Correct Answer) Nail fungus caused by a parasite. very contagious
  7. Onychocryptosis - (Correct Answer) Ingrown nail caused by filing the nail too much, or tight fitting shoes.
  8. Verruca - (Correct Answer) Warts caused by infectious virus
  9. Onycholysis - (Correct Answer) lifting of the nail without shedding
  10. 5 Basic Nail Shapes - (Correct Answer) squoval, round, oval, pointed, square
  11. Toner - (Correct Answer) used on pre-lightened hair to achieve pale and delicate colors after decoloring
  12. Conditioning filler - (Correct Answer) protein conditioner that will equalize porosity and fill the holes
  13. Color filler - (Correct Answer) used to replace the missing primary colors
  14. Oxidative - (Correct Answer) Demi- permenant and permenant color
  15. Non-oxidative color - (Correct Answer) temporary - physical change only. Semi-permanent.
  16. Double process blonde - (Correct Answer) decolorizing and toning
  1. What affects lightener working time? - (Correct Answer) Melanin - the more there is the longer the process. Scalp processes faster because of body heat
  2. Lift - (Correct Answer) lightening by breaking up the melanin to decolorize hair
  3. Deposit - (Correct Answer) means that product only deposits color because it does not contain ammonia or high alkalinity necessary to lift
  4. developer - (Correct Answer) oxidizing agent H2O2 when mixed with ammonia it will break up the melanin and give ability to lift or lighten
  5. Semi-permanent color - (Correct Answer) non-oxidative, temporary color, stains cuticle, fades in each shampoo.
  6. Demi-permanent color - (Correct Answer) oxidative, deposit only, deepens or changes the tone
  7. Permanent color - (Correct Answer) lightens and deposits at the same time. more alkaline ingredients, penetrates the cortex, can't shampoo out
  8. Primary colors - (Correct Answer) Red, Blue, Yellow
  9. Brown - (Correct Answer) unequal combo of primary color
  10. Black - (Correct Answer) Equal parts of primary colors
  11. Warm tones - (Correct Answer) red, orange, yellow
  12. Cool tones - (Correct Answer) blue, green, violet
  13. Neutral tones - (Correct Answer) perfect combo of both cool and warm tones
  14. Eumelanin - (Correct Answer) Brown to black pigments
  15. Pheomelanin - (Correct Answer) Red to yellow pigments
  16. Coarse texture - (Correct Answer) largest diameter, greatest amount of melanin, processing time and lift is affected
  17. medium texture - (Correct Answer) has a balance of melanin, typically no problems
  18. Fine texture - (Correct Answer) smallest diameter, least amount of melanin, more susceptible to darker drabber results, more prone to damage
  19. Alkaline Wave - (Correct Answer) AKA cold waves - ammonium thioglycolate (thio and ammonia). ph - 9.0-9.6, no tension, solution causes hair to swell, processes at RT
  20. Acid Wave - (Correct Answer) AKA heat waves- glycerol monothioglycolate. ph
  • 7.8-8.2. will require heat to speed processing
  1. Endothermic - (Correct Answer) required added heat source
  2. Exothermic - (Correct Answer) self heating
  3. Croguiqnole - (Correct Answer) Wrapping technique from ends to scalp, causes tighter curls on ends. also referred to as "overlapping method"
  4. Spiral - (Correct Answer) hair is not perpendicular to rod - spiraled from top- bottom of rod
  5. On base placement - (Correct Answer) hair is held 45* forward
  1. Methods of temporary hair removal - (Correct Answer) Shaving, tweezing, electronic tweezers, depilatories (nair)
  2. Ph Scale ranges from - (Correct Answer) 0- 14
  3. Acid ph balance - (Correct Answer) 0- 7
  4. Neutral ph balance - (Correct Answer) 7
  5. Alkaline ph balance - (Correct Answer) 7- 14
  6. Infection Control - (Correct Answer) controlling germs - sanitation
  7. 3 Methods of infection control - (Correct Answer) sanitation, disinfecting, sterilization
  8. Sanitation - (Correct Answer) removing visible dirt
  9. disinfecting - (Correct Answer) kills most bacteria but not all
  10. Sterilization - (Correct Answer) kills all microbial life
  11. Marvacide - (Correct Answer) hospital grade, EPA registered, effective against HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis
  12. Hypertrichosis - (Correct Answer) unsusal amount of hair growth
  13. Terminal hair - (Correct Answer) very dark visible hair
  14. Vellus hair - (Correct Answer) baby fine hair
  15. hyper - (Correct Answer) more than normal
  16. trich - (Correct Answer) hair
  17. ology - (Correct Answer) the study of something
  18. osis - (Correct Answer) condition
  19. invisible braid - (Correct Answer) over technique
  20. visible braid - (Correct Answer) under technique
  21. corrective base to use for yellow - (Correct Answer) violet
  22. corrective base to use for orange - (Correct Answer) blue
  23. corrective base to use for red - (Correct Answer) green
  24. in a test curl you look for what shaped pattern? - (Correct Answer) "S" pattern
  25. Bloodborne pathogens - (Correct Answer) disease causing bacteria or viruses carried through the body in blood or body fluids
  26. OSHA - (Correct Answer) occupational safety and health administrations
  27. EPA - (Correct Answer) environmental protection agency
  28. Where should you test foundation? - (Correct Answer) jawline
  29. What are complimentary colors? - (Correct Answer) colors on opposite sides of the color wheel: red & green, blue & orange, and yellow & violet
  30. Another name for strip lashes - (Correct Answer) band lashes
  31. Corrective make up is used to do what to the face - (Correct Answer) hide imperfections
  32. What are MSDS Sheets? - (Correct Answer) Material Safety Data Sheet
  1. What do MSDS Sheets list? - (Correct Answer) Chemical safety info for a product
  2. What are the hazards categorized as on MSDS sheets? - (Correct Answer) Physical and health
  3. Builds weight in a hair cut - (Correct Answer) Horizontal line
  4. Reduces weight in a hair cut - (Correct Answer) Vertical line
  5. Weight distributed on top or bottom, used for blending - (Correct Answer) Diagonal line
  6. 4 Basic Hair cuts - (Correct Answer) 180, 90, 45, 0
  7. Over direction - (Correct Answer) pulling hair away from its natural fall
  8. Head shape changes how often? - (Correct Answer) every half inch
  9. Fingerwaves - (Correct Answer) the process of shaping and directing hair into a pattern of "s" shaped waves throughout the use of fingers, combs, and waving lotion or gel
  10. Pin curls - (Correct Answer) serve as the basis for patterns, lines, waves, curls and rolls that are used in a wide range of hair styles
  11. Roller set - (Correct Answer) used to create many of the same effects as stand up pin curls
  12. Parts of a pin curl - (Correct Answer) base, stem, circle
  13. Ammonium Sulfate relaxer - (Correct Answer) classified as "low ph" or "no lye", will not relax extremely curly hair
  14. Quanidine hydroxide - (Correct Answer) known as "no lye" always has to be mixed with an activator, less scalp irritation, more drying to hair, swells hair more
  15. Characteristics of hair - (Correct Answer) density, texture, elasticity, porosity, growth direction, length
  16. Texture - (Correct Answer) diameter of the hair, fine - medium - coarse
  17. Density - (Correct Answer) hairs per square inch - thick or thin
  18. Porosity - (Correct Answer) How well hair absorbs moisture - non porous, normal anor over porous
  19. Elasticity - (Correct Answer) Hairs ability to stretch
  20. Growth Direction - (Correct Answer) whirls, callics
  21. 3 types of bonds - (Correct Answer) hydrogen bond, salt bond, disulfide bond
  22. Hydrogen bond - (Correct Answer) broken by water or heat, weak bond, 1/3 of hair strength
  23. Salt bond - (Correct Answer) affected by ph. 1/3 of hair strength