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Written Clinical Examination

Provider
Pearson VUE
Format
Computer-based multiple-choice examination
Exam questions
65 multiple-choice questions
Time limit
1.5 hours
Passing score
Scaled score of 75
Examination outline
  • Hair Coloring and Lightening
    • Select and apply temporary color rinse
    • Perform skin sensitivity test (patch test) and/or strand test
    • Select, prepare, and apply semi-permanent color
    • Select, prepare, and apply permanent color and/or toner
    • Select, prepare, and apply lightener
    • Select, prepare, and apply special effects (i.e., frosting, streaking, painting, tipping, etc.)
    • Perform one-step color and retouch
    • Perform corrective color
    • Tint eyelashes and eyebrows
    • Tint beards and mustaches
    • Color/lighten wigs or hairpieces
  • Permanent Waving and Chemical Relaxing
    • Select proper equipment, implements, and sections/pattern
    • Perform test curl
    • Select and apply permanent wave solutions — Using acid wave solutions
    • Select and apply permanent wave solutions — Using exothermic wave
    • Change hair chemically using relaxers/straighteners (thio, acid, no lye, sodium hydroxide, etc.)
    • Apply base at hairline, scalp, and ears
    • Change hair chemically using a chemical blowout
    • Perform re-formation curl (also known as soft curl perm, reconstruction perm, curl rearranging, re-curling, etc.)
  • Scalp and Hair Care
    • Shampoo hair (techniques) — Manipulations
    • Shampoo hair (techniques) — Massage
    • Shampoo hair (techniques) — Cleansing
    • Shampoo hair (techniques) — Rinsing
    • Shampoo hair (chemistry) — Know pH levels of hair
    • Shampoo hair (chemistry) — Know pH levels of shampoo and rinse
    • Condition scalp (identify and apply products)
    • Condition hair (identify and apply products)
  • Hair Cutting/Shaping
    • Select haircutting implements and method (angles, sections)
    • Cut/shape hair using clippers/guard
    • Cut/shape hair using scissors (thin, slither, layer, shingle, blunt cut)
    • Texturizing (thinning shears/channel shears)
    • Cut and shape wigs or hairpieces
    • Trim beard using clippers/scissors
  • Hair Styling
    • Mold hair into finger waves
    • Set hair into pin curls
    • Mold hair by wrapping
    • Set hair using rollers and clips
    • Style hair after set dries
    • Style hair using thermal irons and/or marcel irons
    • Style hair using hot rollers
    • Style hair using electric hot combs
    • Style hair using hair dryers (blow drying/diffuser)
    • Style hair using pressing combs
    • Style hair using freehand techniques (braiding, platting, roping, chignon, etc.)
    • Style hair using heat lamps
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