Texas Esthetician Written State Board | Exam
Questions with Solutions | 2026 Update | 100%
Correct - Verified
‣ What should you always have your client sign prior to having a more aggressive
treatment? -✓✓consent form
‣ Which of the following answers is not a skin type? -✓✓Hyperpigmentation
‣ The salon manager is generally responsible for: -✓✓Daily maintenance, quality
of client services and daily operations
‣ Tertiary colors are formed by mixing equal amounts of a primary color and: -
✓✓It's neighboring secondary color
‣ The best way to understand others is to begin with a firm understanding of: -
✓✓Yourself
‣ When a service fails and you have an unhappy client, you should: -✓✓Redo the
service as soon as you can, if the service cannot be redone, explain to the client
exactly why this is the case, or ask for the assistance of your manager
‣ MSDS stands for -✓✓Material safety data sheet
‣ Pus forming bacteria that grow in clusters similar to grapes are called what? -
✓✓Staphylococci
‣ Identify the bacteria that causes tetanus, typhoid fever, tuberculosis and
diphtheria -✓✓Staphylococci
‣ Diseases that can be spread from one person to another are said to be
communicable or: -✓✓Contagious
‣ The presence of pus is a sign of -✓✓An infection
‣ What is sodium hypochlorite? -✓✓household bleach
, ‣ oda Tg effectively disinfect tools, ethyl alcohol must no less than a(an) _____
solution. -✓✓70%
‣ How should an esthetician treat an infection? -✓✓Estheticians do not treat
infections
‣ What does natural immunity mean? -✓✓A natural inherited resistance to a
disease
‣ Formalin is: -✓✓An unsafe material that is a known carcinogen
‣ What is the role of non-pathogenic bacteria? -✓✓Helps the body break down
food, protects against infection, and stimulates the immune system
‣ Thousands of different bacteria fall into these two categories -✓✓Pathogenic and
non-pathogenic
‣ What does "disinfection" mean? -✓✓Using a chemical that kills most micro
organisms on hard, non-porous surfaces
‣ Dirt, oil, and microbes are -✓✓Debris
‣ Cocci are transmitted -✓✓In the air, Indust, or within the substance in which they
settle
‣ What term refers to an abnormal condition of all or part of the body that makes
the body in capable of carrying on a normal function? -✓✓Disease
‣ What do Universal Precautions entail? -✓✓Tree all clients as though they were
contaminated
‣ What three qualities must disinfectants used in salons, spas, and medical facilities
have? -✓✓Bactericidal, virucudal, fungicidal
‣ Five different types of skin -✓✓Dry, normal, combination, oily, sensitive
‣ What skin type can also be a skin condition? -✓✓Sensitive
Questions with Solutions | 2026 Update | 100%
Correct - Verified
‣ What should you always have your client sign prior to having a more aggressive
treatment? -✓✓consent form
‣ Which of the following answers is not a skin type? -✓✓Hyperpigmentation
‣ The salon manager is generally responsible for: -✓✓Daily maintenance, quality
of client services and daily operations
‣ Tertiary colors are formed by mixing equal amounts of a primary color and: -
✓✓It's neighboring secondary color
‣ The best way to understand others is to begin with a firm understanding of: -
✓✓Yourself
‣ When a service fails and you have an unhappy client, you should: -✓✓Redo the
service as soon as you can, if the service cannot be redone, explain to the client
exactly why this is the case, or ask for the assistance of your manager
‣ MSDS stands for -✓✓Material safety data sheet
‣ Pus forming bacteria that grow in clusters similar to grapes are called what? -
✓✓Staphylococci
‣ Identify the bacteria that causes tetanus, typhoid fever, tuberculosis and
diphtheria -✓✓Staphylococci
‣ Diseases that can be spread from one person to another are said to be
communicable or: -✓✓Contagious
‣ The presence of pus is a sign of -✓✓An infection
‣ What is sodium hypochlorite? -✓✓household bleach
, ‣ oda Tg effectively disinfect tools, ethyl alcohol must no less than a(an) _____
solution. -✓✓70%
‣ How should an esthetician treat an infection? -✓✓Estheticians do not treat
infections
‣ What does natural immunity mean? -✓✓A natural inherited resistance to a
disease
‣ Formalin is: -✓✓An unsafe material that is a known carcinogen
‣ What is the role of non-pathogenic bacteria? -✓✓Helps the body break down
food, protects against infection, and stimulates the immune system
‣ Thousands of different bacteria fall into these two categories -✓✓Pathogenic and
non-pathogenic
‣ What does "disinfection" mean? -✓✓Using a chemical that kills most micro
organisms on hard, non-porous surfaces
‣ Dirt, oil, and microbes are -✓✓Debris
‣ Cocci are transmitted -✓✓In the air, Indust, or within the substance in which they
settle
‣ What term refers to an abnormal condition of all or part of the body that makes
the body in capable of carrying on a normal function? -✓✓Disease
‣ What do Universal Precautions entail? -✓✓Tree all clients as though they were
contaminated
‣ What three qualities must disinfectants used in salons, spas, and medical facilities
have? -✓✓Bactericidal, virucudal, fungicidal
‣ Five different types of skin -✓✓Dry, normal, combination, oily, sensitive
‣ What skin type can also be a skin condition? -✓✓Sensitive
