COSMETOLOGY STATE BOARD PREP
(HAIR STYLING) EXAM GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
How many times do you wrap the hair around a roller to get a curl? - Answer-2 1/2 times
What determines the appropriate style for a person? - Answer-Clients needs and
preferences
What would determine if a hairstyle would work? - Answer-Hair texture
What would you do to a client with wide set eyes? - Answer-Bring eyebrows closer
What kind of style do you give for a square face? - Answer-Lift off forehead and come
forward at side and low
How do you make ridges in waves? - Answer-Pinch between index and middle finger
What is a soft press? - Answer-It is accomplished with a pressing comb, press once on
top of strand and once on bottom of strand
What is a hard press? - Answer-It is accomplished with a pressing comb, press twice on
top of stand and twice on bottom of strand. You can also use a marcel iron over the
comb press
What is the strongest type of pincurl? - Answer-No stem
What are volume Pincurls? - Answer-Pincurls with a stem moving upwards from the
scalp to create fullness
What part of the pincurl gives its direction - Answer-The Stem
What part of the pincurl is responsible for its mobility? - Answer-The Stem
The best fingerwaves are produced by doing what? - Answer-Following natural growth
of the hair
Why is fingerwaving important? - Answer-It is the foundation for many modern hairstyles
What is fingerwaving? - Answer-It is the art of shaping the hair into waves with the aids
of fingers, comb and waving lotion
Pincurls are started where? - Answer-At the open end of the shaping
(HAIR STYLING) EXAM GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
How many times do you wrap the hair around a roller to get a curl? - Answer-2 1/2 times
What determines the appropriate style for a person? - Answer-Clients needs and
preferences
What would determine if a hairstyle would work? - Answer-Hair texture
What would you do to a client with wide set eyes? - Answer-Bring eyebrows closer
What kind of style do you give for a square face? - Answer-Lift off forehead and come
forward at side and low
How do you make ridges in waves? - Answer-Pinch between index and middle finger
What is a soft press? - Answer-It is accomplished with a pressing comb, press once on
top of strand and once on bottom of strand
What is a hard press? - Answer-It is accomplished with a pressing comb, press twice on
top of stand and twice on bottom of strand. You can also use a marcel iron over the
comb press
What is the strongest type of pincurl? - Answer-No stem
What are volume Pincurls? - Answer-Pincurls with a stem moving upwards from the
scalp to create fullness
What part of the pincurl gives its direction - Answer-The Stem
What part of the pincurl is responsible for its mobility? - Answer-The Stem
The best fingerwaves are produced by doing what? - Answer-Following natural growth
of the hair
Why is fingerwaving important? - Answer-It is the foundation for many modern hairstyles
What is fingerwaving? - Answer-It is the art of shaping the hair into waves with the aids
of fingers, comb and waving lotion
Pincurls are started where? - Answer-At the open end of the shaping
