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Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, 7th Edition
: :Women spend an extraordinary amount of money on cosmetics--$45 billion a year in the U.S. alone. Now in its fourth edition, Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me strikes fear in cosmetics-counter consultants everywhere. First off, Begoun has deconstructed ingredient lists. Ever wonder what methylparaben, propylparaben, and butylparaben are doing in your mascara? And what is diazolidinyl urea? All four are potential irritants, and the latter is a preservative that can release formaldehyde, a class A carcinogen. Buyer beware. Begoun ...
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Looking Younger: Makeovers That Make You Look as Young as You Feel
: :Robert JonesGÇÖs tips are very practical and accessible.Looking Younger, a follow-up to Robert JonesGÇÖs successful Makeup Makeovers and Makeup Makeovers: Weddings, provides unique techniques for taking the years off and looking stunning at any age. Readers learn how to expertly cover and camouflage wrinkles, sagging eyelids, and dull skintones while practical and easy tips help them customize their makeup application to play up their best features and minimize their worst.They'll learn which colors and makeup techniques add a decade to ...
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Making Faces
: :In Making Faces, Kevyn Aucoin, North Americas preeminent makeup artist, shares his secrets, explaining not only the basics of makeup application and technique but also how to use those fundamentals (sometimes in unconventional ways) to create a wide range of different looks. Making Faces features step-by-step directions, instructional full-colour sketches, and a gallery of noncelebrity transformations, as well as fabulous images of stars and supermodels as youve never seen them before.Lush and enticing, Making Faces satisfies on many levels: extraordinary ...
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Perfumes: The Guide
:Book Description:The first book of its kind: a definitive guide to the world of perfume Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez are experts in the world of scent. Turin, a renowned scientist, and Sanchez, a longtime perfume critic, have spent years sniffing the world's most elegant and beautiful--as well as some truly terrible--perfumes. In Perfumes: The Guide, they combine their talents and experience to review more than twelve hundred fragrances, separating the divine from the good from the monumentally awful. Through witty, ...
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Milady's Standard Cosmetology 2008: Hardcover: Hardcover (Milady's Standard Cosmetology)
: :Miladys Standard Textbook of Cosmetology has led the way in cosmetology education for 80 years by changing to meet the evolving needs of students and the market. Having been developed after extensive analysis by educational design experts, this textbook exhibits the most sophisticated methods for relaying information, stimulating thought, aiding comprehension, and enhancing retention. Miladys Standard Cosmetology provides students with the information they will need to pass the licensure exams as well as the most contemporary techniques to ensure success ...
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The 5-Minute Face: The Quick & Easy Makeup Guide for Every Woman
: :Good beauty advice is hard to come by these days. Women are constantly inundated with products that promise to remove wrinkles, reduce puffiness, highlight cheekbones, hide blemishes, and make them look younger, healthier, tanner, and even thinner–but do these products really work? Are they worth the time, money, and effort? Carmindy, makeup artist on TLC's popular show What Not to Wear, believes that the secret to a great look is to focus on the positive: learn how to enhance your ...
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Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
: :Lead in lipstick? 1,4 dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful they’ve kept themselves unregulated for decades. Not Just a Pretty Face chronicles the quest that led a group of health and environmental activists to the world’s largest cosmetics companies to ask some tough questions:Why do companies market themselves as pink ribbon leaders in the fight against breast cancer, yet use hormone-disrupting and carcinogenic chemicals that ...
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Soapmaker's Companion: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes, Techniques & Know-How (Natural Body Series - The Natural Way to Enhance Your Life)
: :Basic soapmaking instruction and specialty techniques like marbling, layering, and making transparent and liquid soaps.
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Stage Makeup: The Actor's Complete Guide to Today's Techniques and Materials
: :Basic soapmaking instruction and specialty techniques like marbling, layering, and making transparent and liquid soaps.
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Color Me Beautiful
: :Using simple guidelines, professional color consultant Carole Jackson helps you choose the thirty shades that make you look smashing. COLOR ME BEAUTIFUL will also help you: develop your color personality; learn to perfect your make-up color; discover your clothing personality; use color to solve specific figure problems, and more, including full-color palettes containing the thirty shades for each season--pages you can cut out to carry when you shop!
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