OHIO STATE BOARD COSMETOLOGY
EXAMINATION TEST PAPER 2026 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What shampoo is best for colored hair? Answer: Non-strip or mild
⩥ Best shampoo for dandruff? Answer: Medicated
Dandruff
⩥ What is the part of a pin curl between the base and first arc of circle?
Answer: Stem
⩥ A metallic mineral dye combined with vegetable tint is know as?
Answer: Compound dyes
⩥ Two colors combined to make natural? Answer: Complementary
⩥ Primary and secondary colors positioned are? Answer:
Complementary
⩥ Disinfectant used for cleaning the salon but not recommended for
professional tools? Answer: Household cleaners
,⩥ Name of house hold bleach? Answer: Sodium hypochlorite
⩥ Normal strength of QUATS and average time? Answer: 1:1000
10-15 minutes
⩥ Chignon/switch is? Answer: Looped hair
⩥ Chamber that produces steam for sterilization? Answer: Autoclave
⩥ Hair that is lost in patches? Answer: Alopecia areata
⩥ Hereditary hair loss? Answer: Alopecia androgentic
⩥ Purpose of pin curl stem? Answer: Mobility
⩥ Term for hair loss? Answer: Alopecia
⩥ What is pediculosis capitis? Answer: Lice
⩥ What is the study of muscles? Answer: Myology
,⩥ Active ingredient in acid-balanced waving lotion that reduces pH?
Answer: Glycerol Monothioglycolate
⩥ Active/ reducing agent in alkaline perms? Answer: ammonium
thioglyocolate
⩥ What can human hair wigs be cleaned with? Answer: Nonflammable
liquid shampoo
⩥ How are synthetic wigs cut or shaped? Answer: Dry and NO razor
⩥ Hair "6" or less attached to round-shaped flat base? Answer: Wiglets
⩥ Irreversible hair loss? Answer: Alopecia cicatrisata
⩥ What Governmental agency regulates cosmetics? Answer: FDA
⩥ Body organ that contains most blood? Answer: Liver
⩥ Epidermis is? Answer: Skin
⩥ Term for a wasting away nail? Answer: Onychatrophia
, ⩥ Term for dandruff? Answer: Pityriasis
⩥ Term for greasy waxy dandruff? Answer: Pityriasis steatoids
⩥ Eyebrows are tweezed in what direction? Answer: The way the hair
grows
⩥ Vitiligo refers to? Answer: Irregular shaped patches on skin
⩥ Where do you start hydroxide relaxer? Answer: Nape
⩥ Acrylic nails are made from? Answer: Monomer liquid
Polymer powder
⩥ Small bone on thumb side of arm? Answer: Radius
⩥ Bone found in little finger side of arm? Answer: Ulna
⩥ Part of nail where all cellular activity takes place? Answer: Nail
matrix
⩥ What prevents Bactria growth? Answer: Antiseptic
EXAMINATION TEST PAPER 2026 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ What shampoo is best for colored hair? Answer: Non-strip or mild
⩥ Best shampoo for dandruff? Answer: Medicated
Dandruff
⩥ What is the part of a pin curl between the base and first arc of circle?
Answer: Stem
⩥ A metallic mineral dye combined with vegetable tint is know as?
Answer: Compound dyes
⩥ Two colors combined to make natural? Answer: Complementary
⩥ Primary and secondary colors positioned are? Answer:
Complementary
⩥ Disinfectant used for cleaning the salon but not recommended for
professional tools? Answer: Household cleaners
,⩥ Name of house hold bleach? Answer: Sodium hypochlorite
⩥ Normal strength of QUATS and average time? Answer: 1:1000
10-15 minutes
⩥ Chignon/switch is? Answer: Looped hair
⩥ Chamber that produces steam for sterilization? Answer: Autoclave
⩥ Hair that is lost in patches? Answer: Alopecia areata
⩥ Hereditary hair loss? Answer: Alopecia androgentic
⩥ Purpose of pin curl stem? Answer: Mobility
⩥ Term for hair loss? Answer: Alopecia
⩥ What is pediculosis capitis? Answer: Lice
⩥ What is the study of muscles? Answer: Myology
,⩥ Active ingredient in acid-balanced waving lotion that reduces pH?
Answer: Glycerol Monothioglycolate
⩥ Active/ reducing agent in alkaline perms? Answer: ammonium
thioglyocolate
⩥ What can human hair wigs be cleaned with? Answer: Nonflammable
liquid shampoo
⩥ How are synthetic wigs cut or shaped? Answer: Dry and NO razor
⩥ Hair "6" or less attached to round-shaped flat base? Answer: Wiglets
⩥ Irreversible hair loss? Answer: Alopecia cicatrisata
⩥ What Governmental agency regulates cosmetics? Answer: FDA
⩥ Body organ that contains most blood? Answer: Liver
⩥ Epidermis is? Answer: Skin
⩥ Term for a wasting away nail? Answer: Onychatrophia
, ⩥ Term for dandruff? Answer: Pityriasis
⩥ Term for greasy waxy dandruff? Answer: Pityriasis steatoids
⩥ Eyebrows are tweezed in what direction? Answer: The way the hair
grows
⩥ Vitiligo refers to? Answer: Irregular shaped patches on skin
⩥ Where do you start hydroxide relaxer? Answer: Nape
⩥ Acrylic nails are made from? Answer: Monomer liquid
Polymer powder
⩥ Small bone on thumb side of arm? Answer: Radius
⩥ Bone found in little finger side of arm? Answer: Ulna
⩥ Part of nail where all cellular activity takes place? Answer: Nail
matrix
⩥ What prevents Bactria growth? Answer: Antiseptic
