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Hair salons

Of or relating to any establishment where customers pay a professional hairdresser to cut, wash, style or dye their hair.

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Anagen

Consumer services; Hair salons

This is the growing phase of the hair cycle which lasts about seven years in a healthy person. The active stage in a hair growth cycle.

Amphoteric

Consumer services; Hair salons

A mild nonirritating surfactant (an agent that allows oil to mix with water) often used in shampoos; leaves hair manageable and is gentle enough for chemically treated hair.

Ammonia

Consumer services; Hair salons

An alkaline ingredient used in some permanent hair color. Ammonia is an ingredient that results in a chemical action that decolorizes the hair. A colorless, pungent gas, NH3, extensively used to ...

Aminophenols

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Phenol derivatives used in combination with other chemicals in permanent (two step) hair dyes.

A-line bob

Consumer services; Hair salons

An A-line Bob is a geometric bob with a straight fringe, so called because of the resemblance to the capital A, with it's horizontal line, the fringe and its legs the hair passing your ears.

Alcohol

Consumer services; Hair salons

A liquid sometimes used for disinfecting skin before and after treatment. Ethyl grain isopropyl.

Albinism

Consumer services; Hair salons

A recessive hereditary trait which presents as white hair due to defective melanin production thought to be caused by a mutation within genes. Albinos have no melanin pigment and do not tan. Their ...

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