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1
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Haircolor spelled, one word

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Artificial

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Hair color two words

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Nautral hair

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What is also known as undertone refers to the degrees of warmth exposed during permanence color or lightning process?

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 contributing pigment

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What is the outmost layer of the hair makes up 20% of overall strength this is where hair color deposit

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Cuticle

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What is the hairs middle layer? It gives strength and elasticity the natural pigment called melanin that determines hair color are deposited here.

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Cortex

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What is the innermost layer of the hair structure?

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Medulla

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What makes up 80% hair health?

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Cortex

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What is the diameter of an individual hair strand?

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Texture

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 What hair texture colors more quickly and can look darker

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Fine

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What textured hair has average reaction to hair color?

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Medium

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What textured hair can take longer to process

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Coarse

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What melanin is found in black and brown hair?

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Eumelanin

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What melanin gives blonde and red color to hair?

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Pheomelanin

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What is hairs ability to absorb moisture?

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Porosity

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What porosity the cuticle is so tight it’s difficult for moisture or chemical chemicals to penetrate air will require longer processing time

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Low

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What hair prostate the cuticles lifted it’s overly porous hair will reject when colors supplied and can process more quickly

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High

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What is a measurement system that color is used to determine lightness and darkness of artificial and natural hair ranges from one to 10

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Level system

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What hair color has lost much of its pigment and only white hair is devoid of pigment

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Gray

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What teaches the law of collar system understanding color relationships

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Color theory

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What illustrates the rules and guidelines of color theory?

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Color wheel

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What are pure or fundamental colors that cannot be created by combining any other color?

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Primary

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What is the strongest primary color as coldness can bring that or darkness to any color?

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Blue

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What is the medium primary color can make other colors appear lighter

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Red

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When adding red to yellow colors will make them appear

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Darker

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What is the weakest primary color? This color will look lighter and brighter
Yellow
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What is a color obtaining by mixing equal parts of two primary colors?
Secondary colors
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What are intermediate colors achieved by mixing equal amounts of secondary colors and its primary color?
Tertiary color
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What are primary and secondary colors position directly opposite from each other?
Complementary colors
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Tones can be described as warm, cool, or neutral tone, or fatality refers to
Color balance. Warm tones were like more like making them look lighter than their actual level.
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Cool tone or more like making them look deeper than their actual level neutral tones like Sandy-or tan are neither cool nor warm and flatter
All skin tones
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Hair coloring products fall into two categories, oxidative, and non-oxidative oxidative, hair color are
Demi permanent and permanent
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Nonoxidative hair color includes
Temporary and semi permanent hair color
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What is a non-oxidative hair color that only makes a physical change not a chemical change last one to three shampoo
Temporary hair color
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What is a deposit on hair color that is not mixed with developer last through several shampoos depending on hair porosity
Semi permanent
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What hair colors are meant to deepen or change the tone of natural hair color
Demi
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What hair color can lighten and deposit color simultaneously in a single process and can cover gray
Permanent
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Permanent hair colors contain uncolored dye persecutors, which can easily penetrate the hair shaft these are called
Aniline derivatives - combine with hydrogen peroxide to form large color dye molecules within the cortex
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What hair color is also known as gradual and progressive hair color it contains metallic salt
Metallic hair color
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Due to the pH of ammonia, hair coloring, and lightning service can alter the hair texture and
Curl pattern
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H202 is the oxidizing agent
Hydrogen peroxide
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As a general rule, if you’re going three levels are more darker or dealing with a level nine or 10 blonde that needs to be toned use.
A color filler
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What measures the concentration and strength of hydrogen peroxide?
Volume
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What is known as the standard volume provides two levels of lift mainly used in permanent color for covering gray?
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What is an alkaline agent that raises the pH of hair coolant?
Ammonia
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What is called bleed or decolorizer? It’s a chemical compound that light share by decolorizing the natural hair pigment
Lightner
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All cream and salt powder lighters are considered
On scalp
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What are characterize as powder or clay lighters for related to lift the hair anywhere from 4 to 7 levels?
Clay and powders
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What is the most common hair lightning product originally intended for off the scout lightning only
Powder
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What lighters are used for balayage techniques and free hand painting because it does not run
Clay
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Contributing pigment is also known as
Undertone
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After pre-lightning, what can remove the exposed harsh on the tone of hair can also neutralize or enhance tones as needed however, it cannot further a light in their hair
Toners
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What is the most crucial part of hair color service?
Hair color consultation
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What statement protects the school or salon from responsibility for accidents or damage?
Release statement
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Before any hair color service what will help determine whether your client may have allergies or sensitivities to hair color mixture
Patch test
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The US food drug and cosmetic act required that a patch test is given how many hours before each application or hair color formulated with aniline derivative dyes
24/48 hours
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What determines how the hair will react on hair, color formulated and how long the formula should be left on the hair the test is performed after the client is prepared for the hair color service 
Strand test
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What is the application of one color to your client’s hair? If this is the first time your client will be coloring their hair then it’s called a virgin color service.
Single processed hair coloring
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What contains oxidative dyes that as extreme shine hair?
Gloss
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White coat the hair with a semi permanent hair, color and shine
Glaze
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Overlapping can cause breakage what is a visible line separating colored hair from new growth
Line of demarcation
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If your client has not had previous color and their hair presents it natural color the process you will undertake is called
Virgin Lightner
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 what involves coloring some of the hair strand slider than the natural color to add of light shades, and the illusion of depth
Highlights
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What is the technique of coloring strands of hair darker than the natural color contrasting dark areas proceed appear smaller, and make detailed less visible
Low lighting
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What technique and mouse is coloring sections, hair, strands by slicing or weaving and putting them in foils
Foil technique
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What technique involves taking hair sections, and making a straight part of the scout
Slicing
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Foot hair section, making a straight part of the scalp, then separating strands with a tail comb
Weaving
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What are Spaces you leave out between foils
Subsections
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What is also known as free hair painting?
Balayage
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What highlighting technique is not recommended for tightly cold or curly hair 
Cap highlighting
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When selecting a test area for a patch test behind the ear or inside the
Elbow
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What are known as boosters accelerators Heart powdered purse sulfate salt added to powder lighter to increase its lightning ability.
Activators

Exam Prep 2026 Cosmetology (24 decks)

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