Hair Coloring Basics and Techniques

What are specialized preparations designed to help equalize porosity and deposit a base color in one application?

A system for understanding the relationships of color is called?

What is a lightener that is strong enough for high lift blonding but gentle enough for use on the scalp?

What product is prepared by combining permanent hair color, hydrogen peroxide, and shampoo?

A mixture of shampoo and hydrogen peroxide creates what?

What is a no lift deposit-only color that adds shine and tone to the hair called?

What is the process that lightens and colors hair in a single application?

Where is a patch test generally conducted?

What is a combination of equal parts of prepared tint and shampoo that is applied to hair like regular shampoo?

What contains a powdered oxidizer added to hydrogen peroxide to increase its lifting power?

After the hair goes through the 10 stages of decolorizing, the color that is left in the hair is known as what?

An example of a natural or vegetable hair color obtained from the leaves or bark of plants is?

What are chemical compounds that lighten hair by dispersing, dissolving, and decolorizing the natural hair pigment?

Colored mousses and gels are considered to be what hair color category?

What are colors achieved by mixing equal parts of two primary colors called?

Colors with tones that are golden, orange, red, and yellow are considered to be?

Colors with tones that are blue, green, and violet are considered to be?

What do equal parts of blue and yellow mixed together create?

What do equal parts of red and yellow mixed together create?

What do equal parts of red and blue mixed together create?

Hair texture is determined by the _________ of the individual hair.

What hair color is able to deposit without lifting because it is less alkaline and mixed with a low volume developer?

Hair color that is mixed with a developer and remains in the hair shaft until new growth occurs is called?

Hair coloring products fall into four classifications including temporary, semipermanent, and?

Metallic hair colors are also called what?

One safety precaution in hair coloring is to never apply tint if __________ are present.

How is permanent hair color applied?

Porous hair of the same color level will lighten faster than hair that is nonporous because the bleaching agent can enter the ___________ more rapidly.

What are primary and secondary colors that are positioned opposite each other on the color wheel called?

What are products created to remove artificial pigment from the hair called?

The predominant tonality of an existing color is referred to as what?

The cortex or middle layer of the hair gives strength and elasticity and contributes about ______ to the overall strength of the hair.

What is the strength of a color tone referred to as?

What measures the potential oxidation of varying strengths of hydrogen peroxide?

The cuticle of the hair protects the interior and contributes _______ to the overall strength of the hair.

The U.S. Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act prescribes that a patch test, also called ____________ test, can be given 24 to 48 hours prior to an application of aniline derivative tint.

What term describes the warmth or coolness of a color?

What will the preliminary strand test tell you about hair?

What method is used to analyze the lightness or darkness of a hair color, whether natural or artificial?

The tint formula in permanent hair color contains uncolored __________, which are small compounds that can diffuse into the hair shaft.

What is the melanin found in red hair called?

What is the melanin that gives black and brown color to hair known as?

What is the ability of the hair to absorb moisture called?

What hair color partially penetrates the hair shaft and stains the cuticle layer, slowly fading with each shampoo?

What does the number of hairs per square inch on the head relate to?

What is the oxidizer that is added to hydrogen peroxide to increase its chemical action called?

What are the two methods of parting hair for a foil technique?

What is the free-form technique of hair painting also called?

What should you do when color services do not turn out as planned or expected?

What is the system for understanding color relationships?

What is the process of treating gray or very resistant hair to allow for better penetration of color called?

To some degree, the _______ is designed to protect the school or salon owner from responsibility for accidents or damages.

What is added to hydrogen peroxide to increase its chemical action or lifting power?

What are the three types of hair lighteners?

What product is used to open the cuticle of the hair fiber so that tint can penetrate it?

When performing retouches on red hair, the reds will last longer if you create them using a separate formula with a _____________ haircolor product applied to the mid-shaft and ends of the strand.

When arranging for a hair color services consultation, what type of walls are recommended?

When applying hair coloring products, what should you always follow?

Which type of lightener is not used directly on the scalp?

Which type of hair color product uses the largest pigment molecules?