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The important part of the facial that determines the clients skin type, scalp condition and what treatment is needed. |
Skin analysis |
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Why should you disinfect in front of clients? |
So they are comfy with you as a professional. |
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What does couperose look like on skin? |
Areas of the skin with distended capillaries and defuse redness. |
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Skin that appears tight and pore less is...? |
Combination dry skin |
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What are the 2 types of cleansers? |
Milk: non foaming Dry/sensitive skin types Foaming: surfactants help with Foaming Combination/ oily skin |
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Toners, aka ___ or____ are designed to rebalance the pH of the skin after cleansing and help remove excess cleansers from the skin |
Fresheners or astringents |
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What are the gentle, natural acids that remove dead skin cells by dissolving bonds and intercellular cement between cells? |
Alphahydroxy acids |
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Cosmetologists can remove dead surface cells from the ...? |
Stratum corneum/ skin surface |
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What are exfoliants used for? |
Remove dead skin cells |
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____ are products that help increase the moisture content of the skins surface. |
Moisturizures |
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What is an emollient? |
Oily or fatty ingredients that prevent moisture from leaving the skin. |
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Moisturizures that are often lotion form& contain smaller amounts of emollient are for? |
Oily skin |
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Which cream type enzyme can be rolled off the skin? |
Gommage |
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Used for dry skin; contains oils, emollients, and humecants. Strong moisturizing effects |
Cream masks |
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Melted a little warmer than body temperature before application and harden to candle like consistency |
Paraffin wax masks |
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Contain special crystals of gypsum |
Modelage masks |
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A thin, open-meshed fabric of loosely woven cotton is..? |
Gauze |
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__ is the manual or mechanical manipulation of the body by rubbing, gently pinching, kneading, tapping and other movements |
Massage |
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What could happen if a muscle is massaged In the wrong direction? |
Loss or resilience and sagging of the skin and muscle. |
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What are some basic massage techniques? |
Friction ( rubbing with pressure) Hacking ( chopping movements) Fulling ( grasping, lifting and spread out) Wringing ( twisting like a snake bite) |
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Every muscle has a ______. which is a point on the skin over the muscle where pressure or stimulation will cause contraction of that muscle. |
Motor point. |
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Galvanic and high frequency treatment are types of.. ? The use of electrical currents to treat the skin. Created by who? |
Electrotherapy. Nicolas tesla |
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An applicator for directing the electric current from the machine to the clients skin. |
Electrode |
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The process of softening and emulsifying hardened sebum stuck in follicles is known as...? |
Disincrustation |
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A type of mechanical exfoliation that uses a closed vacuum to shoot crystals onto the skin, bumping off cell buildup that is then vacuumed by suction, is known as...? |
Microdermabrasion |
