Hair Properties

What are the tiny grains of pigment in the cortex that give natural color to the hair?

• Eumelanin
• Pheomelanin
• Pigment
• Melanin

What pigment provides natural dark brown to black hair color?

• Melanin
• Eumelanin
• Pheomelanin
• Pigment

What pigment provides lighter colors ranging from red to yellow in hair?

• Eumelanin
• Pheomelanin
• Melanin
• Pigment

Eumelanin pigment granules are what shape?

• round
• square
• oval
• rod or partly oval

Pheomelanin pigment granules are what shape?

• round
• square
• oval
• rod or partly oval

What refers to the shape of the hair strand?

• Hair Pigment
• Wave Pattern
• Hair Elasticity
• Hair Porosity

What is NOT an example of wave pattern?

• Straight
• Curly
• Wavy
• Flat

Gray hair contains what kind of melanin?

• None
• Scattered
• Eumelanin
• Pheomelanin

White hair contains what kind of melanin?

• Scattered 
• None
• Eumelanin
• Pheomelanin

Which nationality generally has extremely straight hair?

• Caucasians
• Asians
• African Americans
• Hispanic