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NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF COSMETIC ART EXAMINERS

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Raleigh, NC 27609
(919) 733-4117

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A TASTE OF BEAUTY SCHOOL THEORY

In Cosmetology College and Esthetics training, students spend much time performing hands-on training including with clients from the beauty school�s student salon and spa. With every aspect of hands-on training, the student will also study theory subjects that are relative. For instance, before you begin to perform facial services or perform color services on your mannequin or client, you will need to understand the anatomy and chemistry that will be involved with that process. Students will also need to have knowledge of what their particular state�s laws regarding their industry are. Below, are some examples of definitions a student may learn in beauty school / esthetician college. Go briefly over them, then take the short quiz at the end to see how fun theory (written subjects) can be. The following includes a few hairdressing as well as esthetics definitions:

Aesthetician: a specialist in aesthetics; also esthetician.

Apex: the highest point or summit; in cosmetology this is the top of one�s head.

Celestial Sphere: a measurement system which has dimension of depth as well as width and height that establishes the levels of space that surrounds the head.

Depilatory: a substance used to destroy the hair; has the capacity to remove hair.

Degrees of decolorization: the series or steps of decolorization the hair goes through as the melanin changes in a scale of intensity.

Diathermy: a method of producing heat in body tissues using high-frequency electrical currents.

Effleurage: a delicate stroking movement in massage.

Esthetics: Philosophy pertaining to the forms and nature of beauty, including the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty. (also spelled aesthetics)

Fulling: a massage motion where the arm or leg is rolled back and forth between the practitioner�s hands.

Galvanic Current: a direct and steady current having a positive and a negative pole; improves the penetration of nutrition products for the skin.

Ionization: to become changed into the form of ions; in facial treatments this aids in the absorption of cosmetic products into the skin, with the use of electric current.

Keratin: a protein responsible for 97 percent of the makeup of hair.

Lancet: a small, sharp and very pointed, double edged surgical blade used by estheticians to pierce a small elevation of the skin known as a papule.

Law of color: out of all the colors in the universe, only the three colors of red, yellow and blue, are pure.

Miscible: mixable; the property of certain liquids to mix with each other.

Oblique: slanting or inclined.

Ohm�s law: the law stating that the current in an electric circuit is equal to the pressure divided by the resistance.

Phoresis: the action of introducing solutions into body tissues through the skin by galvanic current.

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Esthetics Definitions & Facts - Quiz

This quiz has 10 questions worth 100 total points. Once you have completed the quiz, you may review the answers and take it again. The information for this quiz was taken from this web page.