Esthetician State Board Review!! 196 QUESTIONS!! WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

What is scleroderma? correct answer: an autoimmune disease that causes the thickening and tightening of the skin What makes up pliability of the skin? correct answer: elastin What is oily skin a contraindication for? correct answer: Waxing What is the appendage of the hair follicles that, when it contracts cause goosebumps? correct answer: Arrector Pilli Muscle What is the term for very fine, soft, downy hair? correct answer: Vellus Hair What is the hair growth phase and is third stage of hair growth? correct answer: Telogen What is infected inflammation of the hair follicle? correct answer: Barbae folliculitis What is true of soft wax? correct answer: Has a lower melting point than hard wax What is trichology? correct answer: Scientific study of hair and its diseases What is the term for the science study of hair and it's diseases? correct answer: Trichology What is the hair unit that contains the hair folicle and appendages the hair root, bulb, dermal papilla, sebaceous appendage and arrector pili muscle? correct answer: Pilosebaceous unit What is not contained within the pilosebaceous unit? correct answer: sebaceous gland What is the term for excessive hair growth where hair does not normally grow? correct answer: Hypertrichosis What is hirsutism? correct answer: Unusual hair growth on body parts normally bearing downy hair What function does the hair root perform? correct answer: Anchoring the hair to the skin cells What is NOT a form in which hard waxes are available? correct answer: strips What is removing hair from the follicles via tweezing or waxing? correct answer: Epilation