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Definition: Ferrule
It wasn't until I purchased my first professional-quality makeup brush set that I first heard the word ferrule. "Make sure you take care of your ferrules," said the saleslady. Say what?
Definition: Snood
A snood is a netted or solid cloth hairpiece that's gone in and out of fashion over the years. This hairnet-like cap, which is placed onto the back of a hairstyle, like a chignon or braid, is often knitted, crocheted, or made from silk or lace. The odd-sounding word was first recorded in Old English around the year 725.
Definition: Eumelanin
Simply put, melanin is pigment, but there are two types of melanins that give hair color its own distinctive coloring. I already gave you the scoop on pheomelanin, the pigment that produces red and yellowish strands, so let's move on to eumelanin. As you might have guessed, eumelanin gives skin and hair black and brown coloring.
Definition: Pheomelanin
Simply put, melanin is pigment, but there are two types of melanins that give hair and skin its distinctive coloring. Let's start with pheomelanin, which lends reddish tones to the body.
While pheomelanin can be found in light- and dark-skinned people, females tend to have more of this type of pigment in their skin than men do.
Definition: Tint-Back
Have you ever colored your hair, been displeased with the results, and immediately had the desire to revert your hair back to its original color? I hear you. Or, perhaps you have been coloring your hair so long, you don't even know the true tones of your natural locks any longer.
Definition: Occipital Bone
Place your hand on the back of your head. Do you feel that distinctive bone between your skull and your neck? That's called the occipital bone, a curved protrusion that makes up the back of the skull, right above the nape.
Definition: Ylang Ylang
Ylang ylang is the sweet smelling oil obtained from the yellow flowers of the Asian cananga tree. Pronounced "EE-lang EE-lang," this distinctively repetitive name comes from Tagalog, most likely from "ilang," meaning wilderness, or "ilang-ilan," meaning rare. With notes of custard, rubber, neroli, and jasmine, the spicy, ethereal scent is often found in floral and oriental fragrance classifications.
Definition: Attar
Attars are the world’s oldest perfumes, incredibly concentrated elixirs extracted from the juices of flowers, spices, and barks. They can contain anything from hundreds of ingredients to a simple, single note, sometimes distilled over years. Rose attar is probably the best known, but there are as many attars as there are fragrant herbs.
Definition: Kohl
Used across the Middle East (where it's called kohl), South Asia (where it's kajal or surma), and West Africa (where it's kwalli), this ubiquitous eyeliner made of soot has been used for thousands of years with little change in its formulation. In fact, the smoky eye is older than the pyramids, and there are recipes for it dating back to the Bronze Age. Traditional kohl preparations still popular in many other countries are banned by the FDA because they're made with lead.
Definition: Lunula
Look at the base of your thumbnails. You probably have a crescent-shaped white marking at the end, scientifically known as the lunula. While most people possess this half-moon shape on their thumbs and big toenails, it's less common to have lunulas on your other fingers and toes.
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