3009 SVQ Assessment handbook v2 - City & Guilds

Human hair
Incompatibility
Interlacing
Legal requirements
Lighteners
Linear patterns
Limits of own authority
Locking stages:
Budding stage
Growing stage
Mature stage
Manufacturers’ instructions
This is used in the context of hair extension
work to denote the use of cleaned, natural hair
as opposed to man-made fibre hair extensions.
This refers to chemicals which do not work
together and may have an adverse reaction.
When the tip of the loc is pushed through the
base of the re-growth in an alternating ‘north,
south, east and west’ sequence. This is also
known as the ‘Clock Method’.
This refers to laws affecting the way businesses
are operated, how the salon or workplace is set
up and maintained, people in employment and
the systems of working which must be
maintained. Of particular importance are the
COSHH Regulations, the Electricity at Work
Regulations and the Cosmetic Products (Safety)
Regulations.
Products that lighten the natural pigments of
the hair (changes melanin and pheomelanin to
oxymelanin) without depositing artificial colour
– otherwise known as bleach or pre-lighteners.
Patterns created from either straight or curved
lines or a combination of straight and curved
lines.
The extent of your responsibility as determined
by your own job description and workplace
policies.
When hair begins to interlace and mesh to form
the first stage of the locking process.
Where the hair strands interlace to form a firm
unit.
The lock is now totally entwined to give a
tighter rope-like look.
Explicit guidance issued by manufacturers or
suppliers of products or equipment,
concerning their safe and efficient use.
138 Levels 1-3 SVQ Qualifications in Hairdressing, Barbering and Combined Hair Types (3009)