COSMETOLOGY STATE BOARD
|PRACTICE TEST (146 QUESTIONS)
|EXAM WITH QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS REVIEWED AND
VERIFIED BY EXPERT| 2025 UPDATE.
1. Question: What are horizontal wavy ridges on nails caused by illness or injury called?
Answer: Corrugations.
2. Question: What are vertical lines down the nail plate caused by nutrition, injury, or
illness called?
Answer: Furrows.
3. Question: What are white spots on the nail caused by injury to the base of the nail
called?
Answer: Leuconychia.
4. Question: What is the term for split or brittle nails caused by injury, careless filing, or
vitamin deficiencies?
Answer: Onychorrhexis.
5. Question: What causes hangnails?
Answer: Dry cuticles and carelessness in removing the cuticle.
6. Question: What is a nail fungus caused by a parasite called?
Answer: Onychomycosis Unguium.
7. Question: What is an ingrown nail caused by filing the nail too much or tight-fitting
shoes called?
Answer: Onychocryptosis.
8. Question: What are warts caused by an infectious virus called?
Answer: Verruca.
9. Question: What is the lifting of the nail without shedding called?
Answer: Onycholysis.
10. Question: What are the five basic nail shapes?
Answer: Squoval, round, oval, pointed, and square.
, 11. Question: What is used on pre-lightened hair to achieve pale and delicate colors after
decoloring?
Answer: Toner.
12. Question: What is a protein conditioner that equalizes porosity and fills holes in the hair
called?
Answer: Conditioning filler.
13. Question: What is used to replace missing primary colors in hair?
Answer: Color filler.
14. Question: What types of hair color are considered oxidative?
Answer: Demi-permanent and permanent color.
15. Question: What types of hair color are considered non-oxidative?
Answer: Temporary and semi-permanent color.
16. Question: What is the process of decolorizing and toning hair called?
Answer: Double process blonde.
17. Question: What affects the working time of lighteners?
Answer: Melanin—the more there is, the longer the process. Scalp processes faster due
to body heat.
18. Question: What does "lift" mean in hair coloring?
Answer: Lightening by breaking up melanin to decolorize hair.
19. Question: What does "deposit" mean in hair coloring?
Answer: Depositing color without lifting, as the product does not contain ammonia or
high alkalinity.
20. Question: What is the oxidizing agent used in hair color?
Answer: Developer (H2O2).
21. Question: What is semi-permanent color?
Answer: Non-oxidative, temporary color that stains the cuticle and fades with each
shampoo.
22. Question: What is demi-permanent color?
Answer: Oxidative, deposit-only color that deepens or changes the tone.
|PRACTICE TEST (146 QUESTIONS)
|EXAM WITH QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS REVIEWED AND
VERIFIED BY EXPERT| 2025 UPDATE.
1. Question: What are horizontal wavy ridges on nails caused by illness or injury called?
Answer: Corrugations.
2. Question: What are vertical lines down the nail plate caused by nutrition, injury, or
illness called?
Answer: Furrows.
3. Question: What are white spots on the nail caused by injury to the base of the nail
called?
Answer: Leuconychia.
4. Question: What is the term for split or brittle nails caused by injury, careless filing, or
vitamin deficiencies?
Answer: Onychorrhexis.
5. Question: What causes hangnails?
Answer: Dry cuticles and carelessness in removing the cuticle.
6. Question: What is a nail fungus caused by a parasite called?
Answer: Onychomycosis Unguium.
7. Question: What is an ingrown nail caused by filing the nail too much or tight-fitting
shoes called?
Answer: Onychocryptosis.
8. Question: What are warts caused by an infectious virus called?
Answer: Verruca.
9. Question: What is the lifting of the nail without shedding called?
Answer: Onycholysis.
10. Question: What are the five basic nail shapes?
Answer: Squoval, round, oval, pointed, and square.
, 11. Question: What is used on pre-lightened hair to achieve pale and delicate colors after
decoloring?
Answer: Toner.
12. Question: What is a protein conditioner that equalizes porosity and fills holes in the hair
called?
Answer: Conditioning filler.
13. Question: What is used to replace missing primary colors in hair?
Answer: Color filler.
14. Question: What types of hair color are considered oxidative?
Answer: Demi-permanent and permanent color.
15. Question: What types of hair color are considered non-oxidative?
Answer: Temporary and semi-permanent color.
16. Question: What is the process of decolorizing and toning hair called?
Answer: Double process blonde.
17. Question: What affects the working time of lighteners?
Answer: Melanin—the more there is, the longer the process. Scalp processes faster due
to body heat.
18. Question: What does "lift" mean in hair coloring?
Answer: Lightening by breaking up melanin to decolorize hair.
19. Question: What does "deposit" mean in hair coloring?
Answer: Depositing color without lifting, as the product does not contain ammonia or
high alkalinity.
20. Question: What is the oxidizing agent used in hair color?
Answer: Developer (H2O2).
21. Question: What is semi-permanent color?
Answer: Non-oxidative, temporary color that stains the cuticle and fades with each
shampoo.
22. Question: What is demi-permanent color?
Answer: Oxidative, deposit-only color that deepens or changes the tone.
