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WorksheetsCh. 11 Haircutting
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 26mins
Precision haircutting involves being precise in your haircut and ____
Applying a systematic plan
Is done to each client
Applying a strategic plan
Gives your client volume
Please list some reasons that a cosmetologist should have a thorough understanding of haircutting?
Good haircuts bring loyal clients and tons of profit
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____ is when a cosmetologist combs hair away from his natural falling position before cutting in order to increase a hair designs length?
Crosschecking
Growth pattern
Over direction
Tension
Definition for finger angle.
Where the finger is held at while cutting the hair
Pulling straight from the head
What position the fingers in while combing The Hair
Helps crosschecking
When a stylus is discussing a new hairstyle with a client, who describes a style that must use layers. In order to create the layered style, what type of guideline should this stylist use?
Traveling
Stationary
Zero elevation
The guideline that’s already in the back of the head
Which type of haircut section separates the head add the parietal ridge to below the crown?
Nape
Fringe
Basic four section
Horseshoe
Coarse hair sticking out when cut too short is an example of the role ____ plays in the behavior of hair.
Overly porous
Flyaways
Fine-medium
Texture
A cosmetologist must consider wave and curl patterns when making cutting decisions. Please explain why?
Tension on curly hair and when curly hair is dry it will shrink
You can do basically whatever you want it is the same as fine hair
So they know what haircut to give the client
Every client should get their hair cut like it is curly
How often should I cosmetologist disinfect haircutting shears?
Only when they feel they are dirty
Once a week
Once a day
After every client
What is the most appropriate type of haircutting shears to use when a stylist wants to add texture to the ends of the clients hair by point cutting?
Chunking shears
Thinning shears
Short Texturizing shears
Short blade shears
Please describe the correct way to fit hair cutting shears to a cosmetologist’ hand.
Make sure they are as long as the middle finger
No longer than the thumb to the tip of the fingers
Make sure they are longer than the sum to the tip of your fingers
Whatever the cosmetologist feels most comfortable with
To execute a clients desired hair style a stylist must remove large sections from the clients straight, thick hair. Which type of hair cutting shears is best for this task?
Short blade shears
Point cutting shears
Chunking shears
Thinning shears
What is the primary reason a stylist should hold hair cutting shears with a proper hold?
To avoid cutting a chunk out of the hair
To avoid cutting the client or yourself
To reduce ligament damage and muscle strain
To make it harder on the cosmetologist
How are haircutting shears properly held in the stylist hand.
Ring finger in hole with the thumb placed palming this shears
Putting the middle finger in the hole with the sum placed outside of the hole
Putting your ring finger on top of the hole in the middle finger inside the hole
Placing the pinky on the underside of the tang And the middle finger and thumb each in a hole
Please list things that you would do with your nondominant hand while cutting?
Let it hang at my side
When my dominant hand gets tired switch to my other hand and start cutting
Palm my shears and comb with my non-dominant hand
Hold a section of hair and comb with my non-dominant hand
What is the advantage of the stylist when palming the hair cutting shears?
To not cut your self or the client
To avoid dropping your shears
Allows you to hold comb at the same time
To create the perfect haircut
During a consultation with a stylus, a client explains being unhappy with the way the end of the hair sits. The client would prefer the hair to have a more feathered appearance. If the client has fine hair, what haircutting tool would be a good choice for the stylus to use on this haircut?
Texturizing shears
Clipper over comb
Sheer over comb
Razor
What is used to taper hair lines from extremely short lengths into longer lengths
Clippers
Clipper over comb
Shears over comb
Trimmers
What haircutting tool is best suited cutting clean lines around the ears
Clippers
Shears
Razors
Trimmers
Please list different uses for trimmers
Cleaning up around the ears, eyebrows and necklines
Cleaning up around the fore head
Getting a nice taper
Perfecting the links on top
To ensure cosmetologist protect themselves and clients, how should clients be positioned during a haircut.
Sitting legs crossed looking straight ahead
Make sure you move client by turning the chair
Sitting straight up
Client and cosmetologist to be wearing close toed shoes
In what way can stylist center their weight when cutting hair to avoid fatigue and injury
Keeping me slightly bent
Standing up straight up
Bending to where your clients hair reaches
Bending using your back to reach the clients hair
Please list safe practices when cutting hair
Palming the shears, do not cut past your second knuckle, take extra care around the ears
Palming the shears, cutting finger to finger, taking extra care around the ears
Cutting without using your fingers, While taking extra care around the ears
While taking extra care around the ears and palming the shears
A haircut with a visual buildup of weight in which the hair ends appear to be stacked is an example of which of the four basic haircuts
Graduated
Uniform
Long layer
Blunt
If a client confesses to be unhappy with their last haircut. When asked to explain, the client says the girls were too short. What could the stylus do while cutting the clients here to ensure the curly hair does not appear to short?
To use no tension while wet
Cut wet just be careful on how much you take off
Cut hair dry
Use a razor instead
When stylus part the haircut in the opposite way from how it was cut, at the same elevation, what are they checking for?
Making sure it’s even
Checking for their guide
Line and shape precision
Checking to make sure they cut around the neckline
Please explain the procedure for a stylus doing a blunt cut
Hair in a four section, take small sub section from back then cut the hair in a horizontal line at 0°
Hair in six sections, low to medium elevation cut at 90°
Pull straight out from head and start cutting
Make a guide in the front and work your way back At 0°
Please explain how to cut a graduating haircut
Section hair in the four, take small subsection from back then cut the hair with a horizontal line at 0°
Four sections, low to medium elevation cut it at 45°
Pull straight up from the head with a 90° angle
No elevation cut a straight line
If a cosmetologist sections a clients hair into five partings, which basic haircut is being performed?
Long layer
One layer
Uniform layer
Wolf cut
The basic haircut that is cut at a 90° elevation, then over directed to maintain length and weight at perimeter is the
One layer
Uniform layer
Long layer
Blunt
A client wants bangs long enough to be pulled back. Which type of thing should the stylist create
Curtain bangs
Side bangs
Miniature bangs
Center swept bangs
What is the benefit of using the sheer over comb technique it allows for
Longer to short length
Short to longer length
Medium to short length
Longer to medium length
Removing excess bulk from the hair without shortening the hairs length is called
Thinning
Point cutting
Cutting
Texturizing
How is texturizing hair by point cutting different from texturizing hair by effilating
Point cutting=tip of shears, Effilating=blades of the shears
Effilating=tip of shears, Point cutting=blades of the shears
Point cutting creates the broken edge
Effilating removes bulk without shortening hair
Which basic texturizing technique works well on curly hair because it removes density without adding too many layers
Freehand notching
Texturizing
Thinning
Freehand slicing
If a stylist wishes to use a razor to produce a softer perimeter on the hair which razor texturizing technique should be used
Texturizing
Thinning
Free hand slicing
Free hand notching
In order to best create a flat top four square shaped haircut how should A stylus use clippers
In order to best create a flat top four square shaped haircut how should I stylus use clippers
Shear over comb
Clipper over comb
Comb over shear
Please describe the use of guards
You’re able to make different shapes
Quick way to remove links in to do a haircut
To not cut open the clients neck
To have a guide to help you
If a haircut is cropped close along the bottom and sides but becomes longer as you travel up the head, then it is ___
Basic clipper cut
Basic shear haircut
Clipper over comb cut
Shear over comb cut
When a cosmetologist uses clippers to create a line above, how are they cutting the hair
Straight lines, Straight angles
Shapes
Sharp Angles, Sharp lines
Guidelines
An important element in creating a strong foundation and consistency in hair cutting and creating shapes is the use of
Lines
Angles
Guidelines
Shapes
____ also known as projection or lifting, and the degree at which a subsection of hair is held from the head when cutting
Growth pattern
40°
Elevation
Tension
The ____ is the direction of the hair grows from the scalp it is also called it the natural falling position
Cowlick
Growth Pattern
Natural falling position
Elevation
Attention and your shears that is to ____ will allow your shears to fold the hair
Loose
Tense
Swings open slowly
Palming
Which type of comb is used mainly to the tangle the hair
Rat tail
Wide tooth
Barber comb
Blow out brush
____ in haircutting is the amount of pressure applied when coming or holding a subsection during a haircut
Palming the shears
Elevation
Tension
Clipper cutting
What is the best way to maintain control of the subsection when cutting a vertical or diagonal line
Shear over comb
Palm to comb
Clipper over comb
Palming the shears
____ reduces strain on the index finger and thumb while coming the hair
Palming
Setting the comb down
Clipper cuts
Slide cutting
Which method involves cutting or layering the hair in such a way that the finger and shears glide along edge of the hair to remove the lenghth
Slice cutting
Slide cutting
Point cutting
Trimmer cutting
When using the slicing technique to remove weight and add movement through the length of the hair the shoes should never be completely ____
Open
On your station
Using tension
Closed
