Liquid & Powder Nail Enhancements 2023

_____________ are used to make contact lenses, cements for mending broken bones, Plexiglas windows, and even makeup and other cosmetics.

• acrylics

• monomer liquids

• monomer powders

• polymer powders

Acrylic nails are nail enhancements that are based on mixing together which two substances?

• monomer liquids and water

• monomer liquids and polymer powders

• monomer powders and polymer liquids

• polymer powders and peroxide

The following are reasons cosmetologists should have a thorough understanding of liquid and powder enhancements EXCEPT:

• Liquid and powder nail enhancements are popular services.

• Liquid and powder nail enhancements are lucrative services.

• Knowing how to work with nail enhancement materials allows you to perform the service safely.

• Liquid and powder services are the simplest nail enhancement to create.

What is the best way to apply liquid and powder nail enhancements?

• synthetic hair brush

• natural hair brush

• the wrap method

• no best way

What is the initiator that is added to the polymer powder?

• cyanoacrylate

• methacrylic acid

• benzoyl peroxide

• methyl methacrylate

What does monomer mean?

• many units

• one unit

• initiator(s)

• catalyst(s)

What does polymer mean?

• many units

• one unit

• initiator(s)

• catalyst(s)

When _______________ spring(s) into action, it causes monomer molecules to permanently link together into long polymer chains.

• many units

• one unit

• initiator(s)

• catalyst(s)

______________ is/are added to the monomer liquid and used to control the set or curing time.

• many units

• one unit

• initiator(s)

• catalyst(s)

Creating polymers can be thought of as a chain reaction. This is also known as ____________ .

• polymerization

• monomerization

• initiator

• catalyst