Creamy
When doing a double-process hair colo; what consistency is better to be used?
Deposits only, does not lighten
Semi-permanent color
Determines how the hair will react to the color formula and how long the formula should be left on the hair
Strand test
20
Standard hydrogen peroxide
Most valuable tool when identifying natural levels of hair color
Color wheel
Red
Medium primary color
To raise the cuticle of the hair
Function of an alkali zing ingredient in permanent hair color
Colors that add subtle color result
Semi-permanent hair color
Hair colors containing metal salts that change hair color gradually by progressive buildup and exposure to air, creating a dull, metallic appearance
Gradual colors
Oxidizing agents that when mixed with ab oxidation hair color, supplies the necessary oxygen gas to develop the color molecules and create change in natural haircolor
Function of hydrogen peroxide
Also known as quick lighteners, powdered lighteners that cannot be used directly on the scalp
Off-the-scalp lightener
Equalizer porosity and deposit color in one application to provide a uniform contribution pigment on relight ended hair
Function of color filler
Melanin that lends black and brown colors
Eumelanin
Involves taking a narrow, 1/8 inch section of hair by making a straight part at the scalp positioning the hair over the foil and applying lightener of color
Slicing
System for understanding color relationships
Law of color
Used to recondition damaged, overly proud hair and equalize porosity so that the hair accepts the color evenly form strand to strand and from scalp to ends
Function of conditioner filler
Technique of coloring strands of hair darker than the natural color
Reverse highlighting
A non-ammonia color that adds shine and tone to the hair
Glaze
Measures the concentration and strength of hydrogen peroxide
Volume
Chemical compounds that lighten hair by dispersing, dissolving, and decolorizing the natural hair pigment
Lightener
Colors such as henna, obtained form the leaves or barks of plants
Natural hair colors
Hair type that is difficult for moisture or chemicals to penetrate, and these require longer processing time
Resistant
The unit of measurement used to identify the lightness or darkness to a color
Level
The varying degrees of warmth exposed during a permanent color or lightening process
Contributing pigment
A combination of equal parts of a prepared permanent color mixture and shampoo used during the last five minutes of a haircolor and worked through the the hair to refresh the ends
Soap cap
Balance of color
Tone
Powdered persulfate salts added to haircolor to increase it's lightening ability
Activators
Color technique requiring two spree ate procedures on which the hair is pre lightened before the depositing color is applied
Double-process application
Melanin that gives blonde and red colors to hair
Pheomelanin
The same color that will be used for the color service
When giving a patch test what should you use?
Double-process blonding
How do you obtain a pale blonde?
Yellow
What color balances violets?
Deposits only
Demi-permanent color
Warm
Selecting ____ base colors creates brighter colors
Orange
What color balances blue?
Three. Red, yellow, blue
To give hair a natural look there has to be _____ primary colors?
As many as 10
How many stages foes hair go through when decolorizing?
First
When doing a lightening retouch when is the regrowth lightened?
Overlapping color
What causes a line of demarcation?
Process of treating gray of very resistant hair to allow for better penetration of color
Pre-softening
Oil, cream,powder
Three forms of lighteners
Two levels lighter than the natural level to ensure natural result
What would your color formula be for slat and pepper hair?
Coloring technique in which selected strands are picked up from a narrow section of the hair with a zig zag motion of the comb, and color lightener or color is applied to only these strands
Weaving
Haircolor within the blonde range
If your client is 80-100% gray, what color is most flattering?
40 volume
Maximum lift is achieved with what volume peroxide?
Lighter colors
Red added to blue =
Lighten and deposit color at the same time and in a single process because they are more alkaline than Demi-permanent color and are usually mixed with a higher-volume developer
Permanent color
4 to 6 weeks
How long semi-permanent color lasts
Mixing a secondary color and its neighboring primary color on the color wheel in equal amounts
How do you make a tertiary color?
Because they have larger molecules
Why don't temporary color pigments penetrate?
Primary and secondary colors positioned directly opposite each other on the color wheel
Complementary colors
Equal portions of primary colors, or
Blue-B
Red-RR
Yellow-YYY
What creates brown
Blue
Only cool primary color
Middle layer of the hair that provides strength and elasticity
Cortex
Pure or fundamental colors (Red, yellow, blue) that cannot be created by combing in colors
Primary colros
The diameter of an individual hair strand
How hair texture is determined
Sandy or tan
Colors that are considered natural colors
1 to 10
How many levels are on the hair color scale?
Warm, natural, cool
Three tones of hair color