CHAPTER 1: HISTORY AND CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Flashcards

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Ms. Sims, the senior class instructor has just given her class an assignment for “Throwback Thursday.” Each student is to select an ancient time period and recreate a hairstyle based on the culture and values of the time. The students may select from the following cultures/time periods: the Africans, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Victorian age.

Marlene, who is very interested in makeup artistry, decides to choose the culture that used lavish perfumes and cosmetics in their religious rituals, and who applied kohl to their eyes and vermillion on their cheeks and lips. She has chosen the _________________.

a. Romans
b. Africans
c. Greeks
d. Americans

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c. Greeks

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Ms. Sims, the senior class instructor has just given her class an assignment for “Throwback Thursday.” Each student is to select an ancient time period and recreate a hairstyle based on the culture and values of the time. The students may select from the following cultures/time periods: the Africans, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Victorian age.

Samira has traveled around the world and has seen the current beauty and cosmetic habits of many cultures. The one that intrigues her the most is credited as being among the very first to use essential oils, minerals, insects, and berries to create makeup for their eyes, lips, and skin. They also used Henna to stain their hair and nails a rich, warm red. Samira will create styles worn by the __________________.

a. Romans
b. Egyptians
c. Greeks
d. Americans

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b. Egyptians

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Ms. Sims, the senior class instructor has just given her class an assignment for “Throwback Thursday.” Each student is to select an ancient time period and recreate a hairstyle based on the culture and values of the time. The students may select from the following cultures/time periods: the Africans, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Victorian age.

Allie sets out to create a hairstyle that may have been worn by the young wife of a high-ranking and well respected chief. The hairstyle will be elaborated and the hair will be colored red, mimicking the color that would have been achieved by coloring the hair with red earth. The look may include a head dressing, which was a symbol of stature for the __________.

a. Romans
b. Chinese
c. Greeks
d. Africans

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d. Africans

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Ms. Sims, the senior class instructor has just given her class an assignment for “Throwback Thursday.” Each student is to select an ancient time period and recreate a hairstyle based on the culture and values of the time. The students may select from the following cultures/time periods: the Africans, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Victorian age.

This style created by Troya is modeled after a time period when women used facials made of milk and bread, or fine wine. They also used a mixture of chalk and white lead as a facial cosmetic. Noblewomen tinted their hair red, middle-class women colored their hair blond, and poor women dyed their hair black in this culture.

a. the Romans
b. the Chinese
c. the Greeks
d. the Africans

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a. the Romans

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Ms. Sims, the senior class instructor has just given her class an assignment for “Throwback Thursday.” Each student is to select an ancient time period and recreate a hairstyle based on the culture and values of the time. The students may select from the following cultures/time periods: the Africans, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Victorian age.

Amanda is fascinated to learn that aristocrats of this country rubbed a tinted mixture of gum arabic, gelatin, beeswax, and egg whites onto their nails to color them crimson or ebony. She was shocked to learn that in the 1100’s commoners caught wearing a royal nail color were punished by putting them to death. This behavior was common to the _____________.

a. Romans
b. Chinese
c. Greeks
d. Africans

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b. Chinese

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Ms. Sims, the senior class instructor has just given her class an assignment for “Throwback Thursday.” Each student is to select an ancient time period and recreate a hairstyle based on the culture and values of the time. The students may select from the following cultures/time periods: the Africans, the Egyptians, the Chinese, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Victorian age.

Donna decides to create a style that depicts the fashions in dress and personal grooming in the Victorian Age. The fashion was drastically influenced by the social customs of this period in history. The look she creates will need to be ___________.

a. loose and curly
b. braided tightly to the head
c. austere and restrictive
d. ornately dressed with flowers

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c. austere and restrictive

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The Seriously Professional Cosmetology School is abuzz with excitement. They have been asked by the local high school to create all of the hairstyles and looks for the theater group that will be performing at the end of the school year. The play chronicles a very wealthy and important family and their business dealings and it spans several decades, beginning in the early 1900’s through the mid-1980’s in America.

To depict the look a woman might have between 1901 and 1910, the students will create a character who __________.

a. wears very dark colored eye makeup and has pin-straight hair
b. has curly or wavy hair and wears a bright red lipstick
c. has really long blond hair and wears long nail enhancements
d. wears a braided hairstyle and wears no makeup at all

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b. has curly or wavy hair and wears a bright red lipstick

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The Seriously Professional Cosmetology School is abuzz with excitement. They have been asked by the local high school to create all of the hairstyles and looks for the theater group that will be performing at the end of the school year. The play chronicles a very wealthy and important family and their business dealings and it spans several decades, beginning in the early 1900’s through the mid-1980’s in America.

In the 1920’s, women’s magazines began allowing the women in their ads to be portrayed in ___________.

a. facial tonics
b. hair straighteners
c. facial cosmetics
d. hair colorants

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c. facial cosmetics

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The Seriously Professional Cosmetology School is abuzz with excitement. They have been asked by the local high school to create all of the hairstyles and looks for the theater group that will be performing at the end of the school year. The play chronicles a very wealthy and important family and their business dealings and it spans several decades, beginning in the early 1900’s through the mid-1980’s in America.

Given the advances of hair products by Ralph L. Evans and Everett G. McDonough, who pioneered a method that used heat generated by chemical reaction in the 1930’s, a woman of this era would most likely be donning a hairstyle that was ____________.

a. short and straight
b. colored deep brown
c. wavy and/curly
d. long and straight

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c. wavy and/curly

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The Seriously Professional Cosmetology School is abuzz with excitement. They have been asked by the local high school to create all of the hairstyles and looks for the theater group that will be performing at the end of the school year. The play chronicles a very wealthy and important family and their business dealings and it spans several decades, beginning in the early 1900’s through the mid-1980’s in America.

Another interesting cosmetic product, ____________, was introduced in the 1930’s. Women finally had an array of colors to choose from and wear. According to the play’s script, this character always wore her favorite color: pink.

a. eye shadow
b. blush
c. lip gloss
d. nail polish

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d. nail polish

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The Seriously Professional Cosmetology School is abuzz with excitement. They have been asked by the local high school to create all of the hairstyles and looks for the theater group that will be performing at the end of the school year. The play chronicles a very wealthy and important family and their business dealings and it spans several decades, beginning in the early 1900’s through the mid-1980’s in America.

For the young women who played Margie, a twenty-something of the late 1960’s, a __________ would be created to show off the beautiful lines cut into her hair and the ease of styling a blowout instead of setting it on rollers.

a. layered haircut
b. braid extension
c. geometric haircut
d. wig let

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c. geometric haircut

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The Seriously Professional Cosmetology School is abuzz with excitement. They have been asked by the local high school to create all of the hairstyles and looks for the theater group that will be performing at the end of the school year. The play chronicles a very wealthy and important family and their business dealings and it spans several decades, beginning in the early 1900’s through the mid-1980’s in America.

For the free-spirited character that would depict the look of the 1970’s, a long, flowing, layered hair cut, with highlighting would be created using a technique called ________.

a. plastic capping
b. hair matting
c. cap coloring
d. hair weaving

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d. hair weaving

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The Seriously Professional Cosmetology School is abuzz with excitement. They have been asked by the local high school to create all of the hairstyles and looks for the theater group that will be performing at the end of the school year. The play chronicles a very wealthy and important family and their business dealings and it spans several decades, beginning in the early 1900’s through the mid-1980’s in America.

Nancy is excited to create the makeup looks for the _______ era. These looks will consist of heavily made-up “cat-eyes” and the use of colorful eye shadows and blush.

a. 1950’s
b. 1960’s
c. 1970’s
d. 1980’s

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d. 1980’s

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Mark is about to graduate from cosmetology school, and in his last three weeks of class, his instructor, Ms. Smith, asks him to research various career opportunities available to a licensed cosmetologist and to create a career plan. Mark takes advantage of the career fair that this school is sponsoring to gather information about various career options available. At the career fair, Mark speaks to April, a haircolor specialist; Anderson, a texture specialist; Morris, a cutting specialist; Alfredo, a salon creative director; and Berry, a cosmetology instructor.

April is a haircolor specialist, which means she ___________.

a. selects hair colors the staff should wear
b. creates new chemical formulas for hair color
c. designs haircolor containers and implements for use in the salon
d. trains other professionals how best to perform color services

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d. trains other professionals how best to perform color services

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Mark is about to graduate from cosmetology school, and in his last three weeks of class, his instructor, Ms. Smith, asks him to research various career opportunities available to a licensed cosmetologist and to create a career plan. Mark takes advantage of the career fair that this school is sponsoring to gather information about various career options available. At the career fair, Mark speaks to April, a haircolor specialist; Anderson, a texture specialist; Morris, a cutting specialist; Alfredo, a salon creative director; and Berry, a cosmetology instructor.

A texture specialist like Anderson would most likely spend his days _______________.

a. painting textured patterns on salon walls
b. creating new formulas for permanent waves
c. performing texture services for salon clients
d. writing manufacturers guidelines and product instructions

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c. performing texture services for salon clients

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Mark is about to graduate from cosmetology school, and in his last three weeks of class, his instructor, Ms. Smith, asks him to research various career opportunities available to a licensed cosmetologist and to create a career plan. Mark takes advantage of the career fair that this school is sponsoring to gather information about various career options available. At the career fair, Mark speaks to April, a haircolor specialist; Anderson, a texture specialist; Morris, a cutting specialist; Alfredo, a salon creative director; and Berry, a cosmetology instructor.

Morris would have to ________ to be an effective cutting specialist.

a. have a dedicated interest in learning various cutting styles and techniques
b. travel to the most elaborate trade shows for cosmetology
c. purchase expensive equipment that he would have to carry with him at all times
d. wear outrageous haircuts and hair color

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a. have a dedicated interest in learning various cutting styles and techniques

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Mark is about to graduate from cosmetology school, and in his last three weeks of class, his instructor, Ms. Smith, asks him to research various career opportunities available to a licensed cosmetologist and to create a career plan. Mark takes advantage of the career fair that this school is sponsoring to gather information about various career options available. At the career fair, Mark speaks to April, a haircolor specialist; Anderson, a texture specialist; Morris, a cutting specialist; Alfredo, a salon creative director; and Berry, a cosmetology instructor.

As a company’s creative director, Alfredo is primarily responsible for _____________.

a. managing the exercise routine of the salon staff
b. overseeing, coaching, mentoring and leading all of the company’s educators to ensure the highest standards of professionalism
c. developing the skills of company staff and personnel
d. determining the product lines a salon will carry and maintaining their inventory

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b. overseeing, coaching, mentoring and leading all of the company’s educators to ensure the highest standards of professionalism

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Mark is about to graduate from cosmetology school, and in his last three weeks of class, his instructor, Ms. Smith, asks him to research various career opportunities available to a licensed cosmetologist and to create a career plan. Mark takes advantage of the career fair that this school is sponsoring to gather information about various career options available. At the career fair, Mark speaks to April, a haircolor specialist; Anderson, a texture specialist; Morris, a cutting specialist; Alfredo, a salon creative director; and Berry, a cosmetology instructor.

As a cosmetology instructor, the most important thing that Barry takes care of is ___________.

a. the relationship between the student and the school
b. educating new cosmetologist
c. the recruitment methods the school uses
d. the inventory list of products purchased for use in the student salon

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b. educating new cosmetologist

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Mark is about to graduate from cosmetology school, and in his last three weeks of class, his instructor, Ms. Smith, asks him to research various career opportunities available to a licensed cosmetologist and to create a career plan. Mark takes advantage of the career fair that this school is sponsoring to gather information about various career options available. At the career fair, Mark speaks to April, a haircolor specialist; Anderson, a texture specialist; Morris, a cutting specialist; Alfredo, a salon creative director; and Berry, a cosmetology instructor.

While discussing his job, Barry mentions that a manufacturer educator will be in town in the coming months and that Mark may want to speak with her. A manufacturer educator’s primary function is to __________.

a. train stylist and salon staff to understand and use a company’s hair care, haircolor, and chemical-service products
b. train stylist and salon staff to understand and use all of the retail products in their salon
c. train stylist and staff on the newest rulings regarding infection control, as mandated by OSHA
d. develop and create products for the company by working closely with the research and development department

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a. train stylist and salon staff to understand and use a company’s hair care, haircolor, and chemical-service products

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Mark is about to graduate from cosmetology school, and in his last three weeks of class, his instructor, Ms. Smith, asks him to research various career opportunities available to a licensed cosmetologist and to create a career plan. Mark takes advantage of the career fair that this school is sponsoring to gather information about various career options available. At the career fair, Mark speaks to April, a haircolor specialist; Anderson, a texture specialist; Morris, a cutting specialist; Alfredo, a salon creative director; and Berry, a cosmetology instructor.

Mark, who feels he has a sharp business mind and has always found staff management, financial management, and marketing interesting, also considers becoming _________.

a. a platform artist
b. a cosmetology instructor
c. the schools curriculum director
d. a salon manager

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d. a salon manager