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Corrugations ✔✔Nail disorder - Horizontal wavy ridges caused by uneven growth due to illness or injuries. Furrows ✔✔Nail disorder - vertical lines down the nail plate caused by nutrition, injury or illness. Leuconchia ✔✔White spots on the nail caused by injury to the base of the nail Onychorrhexis ✔✔Split or brittle nails caused by injury, careless filing, vitamin deficiencies, illness, and frequent exposure to strong chemicals. Hang Nails ✔✔Caused by dry cuticle and carlessness in removing the cuticle Onychomycosis Unguium ✔✔Nail fungus caused by a parasite. very contagious Onychocryptosis ✔✔Ingrown nail caused by filing the nail too much, or tight fitting shoes. Verruca ✔✔Warts caused by infectious virus Onycholysis ✔✔lifting of the nail without shedding 5 Basic Nail Shapes ✔✔squoval, round, oval, pointed, square Toner ✔✔used on pre-lightened hair to achieve pale and delicate colors after decoloring Conditioning filler ✔✔protein conditioner that will equalize porosity and fill the holes
Color filler ✔✔used to replace the missing primary colors Oxidative ✔✔Demi- permenant and permenant color Non-oxidative color ✔✔temporary - physical change only. Semi-permanent. Double process blonde ✔✔decolorizing and toning What affects lightener working time? ✔✔Melanin - the more there is the longer the process. Scalp processes faster because of body heat Lift ✔✔lightening by breaking up the melanin to decolorize hair Deposit ✔✔means that product only deposits color because it does not contain ammonia or high alkalinity necessary to lift developer ✔✔oxidizing agent H2O2 when mixed with ammonia it will break up the melanin and give ability to lift or lighten Semi-permanent color ✔✔non-oxidative, temporary color, stains cuticle, fades in each shampoo. Demi-permanent color ✔✔oxidative, deposit only, deepens or changes the tone Permanent color ✔✔lightens and deposits at the same time. more alkaline ingredients, penetrates the cortex, can't shampoo out Primary colors ✔✔Red, Blue, Yellow
Exothermic ✔✔self heating Croguiqnole ✔✔Wrapping technique from ends to scalp, causes tighter curls on ends. also referred to as "overlapping method" Spiral ✔✔hair is not perpendicular to rod - spiraled from top-bottom of rod On base placement ✔✔hair is held 45* forward 1/2 off base placement ✔✔hair is held 90* straight up Off base placement ✔✔hair is held 45* down End paper techniques ✔✔double flat, bookend, cushion wrap Lanthionization ✔✔hydroxide relaxer removes 1 of the sulfer atoms converting from a disulfide bond converting it into a lanthionine bond, which is only 1 sulfur atom. can never be reformed Sodium relaxers are not compatible with : ✔✔Thio relaxers Elasticity ✔✔ability to stretch and return to original length without breaking. wet - 50%, dry - 20% Melanin ✔✔color pigment. eumelanin, and pheomelanin Hair layers ✔✔medulla, cuticle, and cortex Medulla ✔✔center core of hair, does nothing
Cuticle ✔✔ 7 - 14 scale like layers, outer layer of hair Cortex ✔✔has hair pigment (melanin), 90% of hair weight, elasticity, strength, all chemical changes Skin Layers ✔✔Epidermis, Dermis, Subcutaneous tissue Epidermis ✔✔Outer layer of skin, protective/water proof, contains keratin and fats, stratum germinativum Stratum Germinativum ✔✔basal cell layer of epidermis that produces melanin that protects from uv rays Dermis ✔✔"True skin" sensitive layer of connective tissue, 25x thicker than the epidermis, 70% of layer is made of collagen protein, elastin, and blood vessels Sebaceous glands ✔✔oil/sebum glands Sudoriferous glands ✔✔sweat glands subcutaneous tissue ✔✔fatty layer, below the dermis acid mantle ✔✔4.5-5. Muscle massage ✔✔massage from insertion to origin insertion ✔✔attached end to another muscle or movable bone origin ✔✔fixed attachment to a bone or tissue
Sterilization ✔✔kills all microbial life Marvacide ✔✔hospital grade, EPA registered, effective against HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis Hypertrichosis ✔✔unsusal amount of hair growth Terminal hair ✔✔very dark visible hair Vellus hair ✔✔baby fine hair hyper ✔✔more than normal trich ✔✔hair ology ✔✔the study of something osis ✔✔condition invisible braid ✔✔over technique visible braid ✔✔under technique corrective base to use for yellow ✔✔violet corrective base to use for orange ✔✔blue corrective base to use for red ✔✔green in a test curl you look for what shaped pattern? ✔✔"S" pattern
Bloodborne pathogens ✔✔disease causing bacteria or viruses carried through the body in blood or body fluids OSHA ✔✔occupational safety and health administrations EPA ✔✔environmental protection agency Where should you test foundation? ✔✔jawline What are complimentary colors? ✔✔colors on opposite sides of the color wheel: red & green, blue & orange, and yellow & violet Another name for strip lashes ✔✔band lashes Corrective make up is used to do what to the face ✔✔hide imperfections What are MSDS Sheets? ✔✔Material Safety Data Sheet What do MSDS Sheets list? ✔✔Chemical safety info for a product What are the hazards categorized as on MSDS sheets? ✔✔Physical and health Builds weight in a hair cut ✔✔Horizontal line Reduces weight in a hair cut ✔✔Vertical line Weight distributed on top or bottom, used for blending ✔✔Diagonal line
Elasticity ✔✔Hairs ability to stretch Growth Direction ✔✔whirls, callics 3 types of bonds ✔✔hydrogen bond, salt bond, disulfide bond Hydrogen bond ✔✔broken by water or heat, weak bond, 1/3 of hair strength Salt bond ✔✔affected by ph. 1/3 of hair strength Disulfide bond ✔✔strong chemical bonds, can be broken and reformed with perm solution. bleaching and coloring hair can weaken bond as well. 1/3 of hair strength Perm papers ✔✔absorbant papers that control ends of hair Acid on ph does what to cuticle ✔✔closes cuticle Alkaline on ph does what to cuticle? ✔✔Swells the cuticle , blows it open Anatomy ✔✔the study of the structure of the organs and systems of the human body Physiology ✔✔the study of the functions and activities performed by body structures Cells ✔✔the basic units of living matter The cells of living things are composed of a substance called what? ✔✔protoplasm
Histology ✔✔AKA microscope anatomy, the study of tiny structures only visible through microscope Chemistry ✔✔the science that deals with structures and properties of matter and how it changes under different conditions Organic Chemistry ✔✔Stustances that contain carbon and were alive Inorganic Chemistry ✔✔study of substances that do not contain carbon Matter ✔✔anything that takes of space and has mass 3 types of matter ✔✔solid, liquid, gas Solid ✔✔definite shape and volume Liquid ✔✔Definite volume no definite shape Gas ✔✔No definite volume or shape Element ✔✔simpilest form of matter and cannot be broken down COHNS ✔✔elements found in the hair Atoms ✔✔Particles from which all matter is composed Molecule ✔✔Chemical compound of 2 or more atoms Compound ✔✔chemical combo of 2 or more atoms of different elements
