State Board Exit Flashcards
After rhinoplasty the esthetician should substitute what instead of doing extractions on the nose?
Enzyme peel
A means of sterilization would require the means of?
Autoclave
A snake like lesion?
Serpiginous
Applying microdermabrasion too aggressive will result in what?
Pinpoint bleeding
Ascorbic acid is also know as?
Vitamin C
Cleanser is removed starting from where?
The chin
Define Algo Therapy?
Therapy with sea water
What does a Jessner peel consist of?
14% lactic, 14% salicylic and 14% resorcinol in an ethanol base
Define Apocrine glands and where they are located?
Apocrine glands are sweat glands composed of a coiled secretory portion located at the junction of the dermis and subcutaneous fat, from which a straight portion inserts and secrets into the infundibular portion of the hair follicle
Define atopic dermatitis
Skin condition
Define dermal scattering
In laser, where the epidermis separates from the dermis
Difference in men’s facial
Direction of hair growth
Light skin is a contraindication of what?
IPL
What makes up the pliability of the skin
Elastin
What could you use for facial steaming
Hot towels
What do chemical peels benefit
Aging, sun damaged skin
What is the ingredient in Botox
Clostridium Botulinum
What is the purpose of the skin analysis
Determine skin type and condition
What is OSHA
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, they regulate safely in the workplace
If you are doing a service and notice a disease, what do you do
Refer to a physician
What is the main purpose of cotton compresses
Mask removal
Describe the diamond face shape
Pointed/narrow forehead and chin with the widest part of the face being at the cheeks
What is a contraindication for body wraps
Diabetes
Face shapes and contouring/highlighting each one
Oval, heart, diamond, round, square, triangle, inverted triangle, long
What is shadowing and contouring
Shadow diminishes a feature with darker colors, contouring is highlighting a feature with lighter color
How should wax be applied
At 45 degree angle
What causes the skin to be yellow, gray and sallow
Smoking
What is the pilosebaceous unit referred to
Hair follicle
How would you do a proper tweezing
Hold skin taut and pull against direction of hair growths.
What needs to be done when using a woods lamp?
Turn all light off the room needs to be dark
What is a cleanser applied with?
Fingers
What is applied after a depilatory wax?
Petroleum
What is the main purpose of body wraps?
To detoxify
What is the skeletal structure that protects heart, lungs, and internal organs?
Thorax
What can be applied to the skin?
Antiseptics
Where does your lymphatic system empty into?
Circulatory
Name eleven body systems? SICREMINDER
Skeletal Integumentary Circulatory Respiratory Endocrine Muscular Immune Nervous Digestive Excretory Reproductive
What is natural immunity?
Your body’s natural defense to foreign invaders, what we are born with
Where do hair follicles originate from?
Dermis
What is keratosis?
A skin condition marked by a horny growth (an overgrowth of dead skin cells)
What is a humectant?
Water loving ingredient
What is retinoids acid?
Vitamin A
How many pints of blood are in the average adult?
10
Where does the skin get its main source of nutrients?
Blood
What is the body’s largest organ?
The integumentary system (skin)
What is vitiligo?
A skin disorder characterized by smooth, white patches on various parts of the body, caused by the loss of the natural pigment.
When prepping for a chemical peel, what do you do?
Strip oils from the skin
In what layer can melanocytes be found in?
The basal layer
What is a common skin cancer?
Basal cell carcinoma
What regulated the strength of an electrical current?
A circuit breaker
What contraindicated the use of a suction machine?
Couperose skin
How many cranial bones are there?
8
How many facial bones are there?
14
What muscle connects the occipitalis to the frontalis?
Aponeurosis
What muscle would be massages during a facial massage?
The platysma
What does organic mean?
Substances having carbon to carbon bonds
When massaging the hands and arms what muscles would you affect?
Pronator, supinator, flexors and extensors
Difference between voluntary and involuntary?
Involuntary you do not have control, voluntary you control (involuntary, non striated: cardiac and smooth. Voluntary, striated, muscular)
What holds products together?
Preservatives, binding agents
What is an acidic product on the PH scale?
0 - 6.9
What is the difference between acidic and alkaline?
.
What do sensory nerves do?
Sensory nervous gather information from the environment and send it to your brain so it knows how to respond
What does motor nerves do?
Motor nerves tell muscles to contract, making you move
What is silicone?
Silicones are inert, synthetic compounds with a variety of forms and uses. Typically heat-resistant and rubber-like, they are used as adhesives, lubricants and medical application.
What is not a bacteria?
Fungi
What is the most common form of cleansers in the spa?
Antiseptic and disinfectants
What does the herpes simplex virus look like?
Red blister looking lesions
What is another name for herpes simplex?
Cold sores
What is rosacea?
Vascular condition characterized by red flushing skin
What is the most stimulating massage movement?
Tapotement
What is the ideal brow supposed to be?
Outer corner of eye directly out from iris
What does steaming the face do?
Softens dead skin cells
What does the FDA defines cosmetics as?
For cleansing, beautifying and promoting attractiveness
What is another name for blackhead?
Open comedone
What is pathogenic?
Disease causing bacteria
What normalizes body temperature?
Eccrine gland
Who cannot receive high frequency?
People with pacemakers
What is balneotherapy?
Therapy by baths
What is aromatherapy?
Therapy using essential oils and fragrance
What is Ayurveda?
The ancient Indian approach to skin are, science of life
What is acupuncture?
A Chinese medial practice or procedure that treats illness or provides local anesthesia by the insertion of needles at specified sites of the body
What is hydriatics?
The water-cure manual:a popular book, embracing descriptions of the various modes of bathing (hydrotherapy)
What is thalassotherapy?
The use of sea water and marine products as a therapeutic treatment
What is another name for pore?
Ostium
What is the sex hormone that produces elastin and collagen?
Estrogen
What does the androgen hormone do?
Responsible for oily skin and acne, a male hormone
What is an antigen?
A foreign invader
What is a histamine?
Histamines trigger the inflammatory response
Which ingredient does not require specifics in cosmetic labeling?
Fragrence
What is linolenic acid?
Fatty acid that helps blood vessel dilation in intercellular cement
What is high frequency?
Alternating current
What is galvanic?
Direct current
What is micro current?
Wave therapy, which retrains the facial muscles to help with wrinkles and sagging
What is the horseshoe pigmentation called?
Poikiloderma of cevattes
What is ohm?
Unit of electrical currents
What is a volt?
The measurement of potential electrical force
What is amp?
The base unit of electrical current
What is a circuit?
The pathway of an electrical current
What is hertz?
The unit of frequency, equal to one cycle per second
What is the state of equilibrium?
When the number of protons equals the number of orbiting electrons
What contraindicates electrical treatments?
Epilepsy
What are melanocytes?
Small granules filled with melanin (manufactured by melanocytes)
What is desmosomes?
A plaque like site on a cell surface that functions in maintaining cohesion with an adjacent cell.
What is desquamation?
The shedding of the outer layers of the skin
What holds the epidermis and dermis together?
Dermal papillae
Define eccrine glands? Where are they located?
Eccrine sweat is produced via merocrine secretion in the coiled gland and is composed of water, sodium, potassium lactate, urea, ammonia, shrine, ornithine, citrulline, aspartic acid, heavy metals, organic compounds and proteolytic enzymes
Define sudoriferous glands
It is sweat glands that have a scientific name of sudoriferous glands. In human beings there are two kinds of sudoriferous glands, one eccrine sudoriferous and the other is apocrine sudoriferous glands
Define hypothalamus
The hypothalamus coordinates many hormonal and behavioural circadian rhythms, complex patterns of neurocrine outputs, complex homeostatic mechanisms, (2) and important behaviors
Define Pituitary gland
The pituitary gland is sometimes called the master gland of the endocrine system, because it controls the functions of “master” gland of the endocrine system, because it controls the functions of the other endocrine glands
Examples of ceramides
Sphingolipids or glyosphingolipids
What are enzymes?
Proteolytic (protein dissolving)
What is hyperthyroidism?
Too much production of the thyroid gland. Thinning skin, hair loss, and weight loss
What is cushing’s disease?
Disease of the adrenal gland where it produces too much hydro-cortisone
What is Addison’s disease?
Disease of the adrenal gland where it produces too little hydro-cortisone
Define pityriasis rosacea
Pityriasis rosacea is believed to be caused by a virus. It occur in more often in the fall and spring. Although pityriasis rosacea may occur in more than one person in a household at a time, it is not thought to spread from one person to another
Define atopic dermatitis
Skin condition
Define contact dermatitis
Reaction from a substance
Define psoriasis
Skin disease that causes silvery, flaky, dry skin
Define tinea versicolor
Sun fungus, white hypo-pigmented looking patches
What are neutrons
Neutrally charged ions
Protons
Positively charged ions
Electrons
Negatively charged ions
Define viscosity
Is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress
Define peptides
Short polymers of amino acids linked by peptide bonds
What is sodium lauryl sulfate?
A surfactant cleanser
What is a carbomer?
An emulsifier
What s microsponge?
Specialized delivery system
What is ascorbic acid?
Vitamin C
What is the acronym SOAP used for?
Subjective, objective, assessment and plan. Documentation in medical charting
What does smoking do to the skin?
Restricts oxygen and depletes vitamin c
What does need to be listed in ingredients list?
Humectants
Define xerosis
Abnormally dry skin
What is vasodilatation?
Increased blood flow
What is rhinophysma?
Enlarged nose; subtype 3 rosacea
Define photothermolysis.
Selective photothermolysis is the key to success in laser tattoo removal and other cosmetic laser procedures
What do LED treatments provide?
Energy
What laser does laser resurfacing?
CO2 or Erbium
Which stage of hair growth does laser work best on?
Anagen
Laser use a form of what?
Polarized light
What is the Jessner’s solution?
14% salicylic 14% lactic 14% resorcinol in an ethanol base
What layer does a light peel affect?
Stratum corneum
What is the minimum peel that penetrates into the papillary layer?
Medium depth
What layer does a deep phenol peel affect?
Papillary dermis
What happens when a peel goes too deep?
White skin (blanching) with pink frosting
How long do you need to wait to do microdermabrasion after restylane?
2 weeks
What muscle is Botox injected into?
Corrugated muscle
Difference between type A and type B Botox
Type A is the Botox brand while type B is listed as something else and is used for underarms
What are Restylane injections made of?
Hylauronic acid
What light does the woods lamp use?
Filtered black light
What is a scotch hose?
Jet hose for body treatments, water therapy using a stream of water
Contraindications of body treatments
Pregnancy, iodine allergy (seaweed wrap), diabetes, burns, cancers, varicose veins, claustrophobia, edema, etc
What layer does microdermabrasion work on?
Stratum corneum
Fitzpatrick skin types…which benefits most from laser
Types 1 through 6. Types 2 and 3 benefit the most
Fulgeration
Procedure to destroy tissue
What is micropigmentation and what is it used for?
Permanent cosmetics,used for tattooing eye lines, lip lines, eye brows etc
Contraindication for microdermabrasion
Rosacea, sensitive skin, burned skin, suspicious lesions, open wounds, active cold sores, etc.
What skin types contraindicate laser treatments?
Fitzpatrick 5&6
Scleroderma?
Isa connective tissue disease that involves changes in the skin, blood vessels, muscles, and internal organs. It is a type of autoimmune disorder, a condition that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys health body tissue
Dermal scattering
While doing laser the epidermis separates from the dermis
Algae therapy
Therapy with sea water, algae therapy uses specially prepared marine algae, which is rich in nutrients, mineral ingredients and trace elements to help the body function at its optimum. Algae packs are often used as a part of the thalassotherapy regimen.
Mammoplasty
Breast augmentation
How long do you have to wait for a chemical peel after laser resurfacing?
3 weeks
Endermology
Deep tissue massage done by vacuum therapy, used before after liposuction for best results
Why would you do endermology after liposuction?
Better results and body shaping
Sodium lauryl sulfate is commonly found in?
Cleansers
How long do you wait for a restylane injection after microdermabrasion?
2 weeks
What is cellulite?
Fat cells under the skin that cause the cottage cheese looking affect on the skin
What is the substance between collagen and elastin?
Ground substance
What injury is caused by protein coagulation?
Hemophilia
What is the medical term for cluster of boils?
Carbuncle
In galvanic where is the positive electrode placed?
Client must hold it or place it under the clients shoulder
Elctrolocysis
Only permanent hair removal. Very tedious and painful, one by one, each hair follicle is destroyed.
Levels of decontamination
Sanitation, disinfection and sterilization
Fissure
Type of wound
How is paraffin applied for the face?
Gauze dipped in paraffin and placed over the face
What ethnicity ages slowest?
African American
Where on the body are the most sudoriferous glands?
Palms of hands, soles of feet, underarms and groin
How many metacarpals are in the palm?
5
What do sudoriferous glands produce?
Sweat
What is the largest bone in the face?
Mandible
Medical term for eyelashes
Cili
What massage movement do you use to apply moisturizer?
Effleurage
What is the space between collagen and elastin in the dermis?
Reticulin
With laser, which hair color isn’t effective?
Gray
What color does the skin turn if the peel is too deep?
White
What is another name for Accutane?
Isotretinoin
What a thermal mask cools, it does what?
Tightens and tones
What is the term for fungus?
Tinea
What is non pathogenic bacteria dependent on?
Absorbency of vitamins
What is an example of non pathogenic fungus?
Molds
Reflexology is a treatment commonly used where?
Hands and feet
Ayruved
Ancient Indian approach to skin scare, science of life
What can increase the depth of a peel?
An occlusive
What skin type according to ethnicity is most sensitive to AHA’s?
Asian skin
What are conductors and insulators?
Conductors let electricity pass through while insulators keep electricity from moving
What is photothermolysis?
When a laser light is used to remove hair growth with heat
Which hormone causes hair loss and weight gain?
Estrogen
What is scabies caused by?
Parasites
What do body secretions do for us?
Fight bacteria
What peel does the coagulation of protein in the skin that causes the skin to frost?
TCA and Jessner
Why is it important to let the client rest after a body treatment?
Resting regains equilibrium
What is a contraindication of fibromyalgia?
Body wrap
What machine causes an electrochemical effect?
Galvanic
What is Balneotherapy?
Bath therapy
Bromelain comes from what enzyme?
Pineapple
Define proteolytic
Protein dissolving works by dissolving keratin protein within dead cells, helping to remove these cells and making the skin look cleaner and smoother
What kind of treatment is sclerotherapy?
Procedure to minimize varicose veins by injecting chemical into affected area
What should you avoid on an asthma patient for long periods of time?
Steam
What type of peel has to do with protein coagulation?
TCA trichloroacetic acid
What is the medical term for dry skin
Asteatosis
What kind of exfoliant is microdermabrasion?
Mechanical (machine exfoliation)
What does a woman have if she has weight loss combined with hair loss?
Hormonal imbalance or thyroid disease
What is blepherplasty?
The surgical procedure for lifting the eyes and removing the excess skin from the eye area
What is ligation?
Ligation (also known as phlebectomy) refers to the surgical typing off a large vein in the leg called the greater sap heinous vein, while stripping refers to the removal of this vein through incisions in the groin area or behind the knee
What is the difference between arteries and veins?
Arteries carry oxygenated blood away from the heart, veins carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart and lungs to re-oxygenate
How does Botox work?
It is injected into the muscle, and stops the release of acetylcholine, which triggers nerve communications from the brain to the muscle temporarily stopping muscle movement
What stage of hair growth does laser work best on?
Anlagen
What massage movement do you use it apply moisturizer?
Effleurage
What kind of prescription is prescribed for someone that has herpes simplex?
Antiviral medication
What does steaming the face do?
Soften dead skin cells
What does smoking do to the skin?
Restricts oxygen and depletes vitamin C
Know the difference between type A and B Botox
A is regular B is used in underarms
What is the most serious and deadly skin cancer?
Melanoma
What is manual lymph drainage?
MLD is a type of gentle massage which is intended by proponents to encourage the natural drainage of the lymph from the tissues in space
What is another name for polymer?
Macromolecule
What is reflexology?
Reflexology is based on the belief that working areas or reflex points found on the hands and feet can reduce tension to the body’s corresponding organs and gland structure
Define prophylactic
Guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection
What are symptoms of sun damage?
Skin cancer, hyper pigmentation, telangectasia and photo aging
What does the endocrine system regulate?
The endocrine system is instrumental in regulating mood, growth and development, tissue function, metabolism, and sexual function and reproductive process
Which hormone benefits the skin?
Estrogen
Telangectasia is what type of disorder?
Vascular disorder
Contraindications for MLD
Blood clots, infections, cancer and diabetes
What would you include in microdermabrasion charting?
Product used, level or setting used, Fitzpatrick and end results
What is the medical term for dry skin?
Xerosis
Define fulgurayion?
The destruction of tissue, usually malignant tumors, by means of high-frequency electric current applied with a needle like electrode
What kind of laser are best used to treat leg veins?
Pulsed dye lasers
Define Nikolski sign
And indication of a skin reaction, the clinical manifestations observed are perfollicular edema, erythema, blistering or an epidermal separation caused by lateral pressure on the skin.
What kind of treatment would be good to do before a cellulite treatment?
Salt scrub
