Correct Answers 2024
What are the three types of hair
lanugo, vellus, terminal
What is hair in the intermediate stage called
Accelerated vellus
Can vellus hair be treated with laser true or false
False
What hair is very short, soft hair that contains no or very little melanin so the skin
appears to be hairless ; also called peach fuzz
Vellus hair
What is the type of hair you will be mostly treating with laser hair removal
machine
Terminal
What hair is typically pigmented, long, and course
Terminal
What consist of a hair shaft, hair root, and hair bulb
Your hair
What is the elongated section of the hair that protrudes through an outs of the
follicle where it becomes visible to the human eye
The shaft
What is the thickest section of the hair that sits right above the hair bulb at the
innermost end of the hair shaft
The hair root
What is the dark shiny substance below the hair root and engulfs the papilla
The hairbulb
What is a bundle of tiny blood vessels that supply the nutrients that they hair
need to grow together with the matrix; the part where mitosis, or cell division take
place
The Papilla
What are the three sections of the hair shaft from innermost part of the hair to
outward
Medulla, cortex and cuticle
What is the innermost section of the hair and it is found only in terminal hairs
Medulla
What is the second or middle layer, and is considered the thickest layer; also
holds the melanin
Cortex
What gives hair it's color
Melanin
What is the third and outermost layer of the hair; it helps protect the inner layers
of the hair and also help anchor the hair into the follicle ; it is made of keratin ; it
offers protection because of it's hard, fibrosis makeup