Category: H

  • Highlights

    Highlights

    Lighter color that provides variation in hair tone. There are face-framing highlights, half-head highlights, and full-head highlights. Compare lowlights.  

  • Hair shaft

    The full length of one piece of hair, from root to end. The keratinized portion of a hair that extends from a hair follicle beyond the surface of the epidermis. The portion of hair that projects above the epidermis.  

  • Hairpin

    Hairpin

    A long metal tool used to hold hair in place. A double helical stretch of DNA formed by base pairing between neighboring strands.  

  • Hairnet

    A small, often elasticized, fine net worn over long hair to hold it in place, particularly when you are roller-setting your hair overnight.  

  • Hair gel

    A classic firm-hold styling product to slick, set, and shape all hairstyles.  

  • Hair creme

    A modern, light-hold styling product that is rich in moisture, to give you a smooth, natural-looking, and sexy style.  

  • Homogenized

    Made homogeneous. Usually applied to dispersing milk fat in such fine globules that cream will not rise to the top.  

  • Heinz bodies

    Granules in red blood cells due to damage of hemoglobin molecules. Molecules that damage or destroy red blood cells; they may be the cause of hemolytic anemia, a type of anemia caused by premature destruction of red blood cells.  

  • Hulls

    The outer covering of many foodgrains; examples are the horny covering (as in cottonseeds), leathery skin (as in sesame seeds) or parchment-like coating (as in soyabeans). This is removed when edible protein products are to be made from these oilseeds. An exterior layer, typically parched; in addition, the process of eliminating said layer. However, to…

  • Hidden hunger

    An insufficiency of vitamins and minerals resulting from lack of protective foods, which particularly affects the tissues.