Best Makeup & Beauty Care Manual!A successful makeup artist to the stars presents his version of beauty care in this beauty care manual. You get makeup hints and tricks in a beautifully illustrated guide. Kevyn Aucoin, make up artist to the stars and author of this book, puts together all the information you need to look great! The faces that Kevyn Aucoin has made are stellar and luminous: Cher, Tina Turner, Vanessa Williams, and Julia Roberts are but a few of the stars in Aucoin's galaxy of clientele. More than making do, making up is the art of achieving your own special look, and Aucoin insists that there are no hard and fast rules, except for the obvious ones, such as "Don't put lipstick in your eyes."
If you love playing with new looks and colors, this book is the perfect tool! It makes learning easy and fun while getting professional looking results. This simple book will help you discover exciting new looks you never dreamed of and the full potential of every makeup tool you own. The instructions on how to accomplish every look in the book are clearly illustrated step-by-step, making them extremely easy to use. The advice given by the author comes alive with his own funny anecdotes on discovering and experimenting with different makeup. This book is extremely well organized. The first section covers the basics; how to apply makeup, which tools to use, and how to enhance and get the most benefit from your strongest facial features. You get Aucoin's favorite ideas, tricks, and techniques for enhancing, defining, and altering facial features with makeup. You'll learn how to care for your skin, what foundation to use with your skin type, and transformational magic for that central player in the drama of beauty, your eyes. Through his gallery of non-celebrity before-and-afters, Aucoin shows clearly how to use his fundamentals to achieve dozens of different looks.
The second section shows you makeovers done on ordinary people that look like you and me. It includes before and after pictures that show the impact of well-applied makeup on every kind of skin and color combination. The third section is the most impressive part of the book. It shows known celebrities made up like other celebrities that have established iconic looks over the years. (Look for Lisa Marie-Presley as Marilyn Monroe and Isabella Rosellini as Barbra Streisand). These sumptuous photographs are accompanied by full-page illustrations listing the "ingredients" required to create these looks as well as simple directions for achieving them. The introduction by the author, at once amusing and endearing ("...trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!"), and Aucoin's commentary throughout, makes Making Faces a unique reference book; beautiful, informative, and personal. This beauty care manual also includes a few male makeup techniques, from the conservative (using concealer and powder) to the adventurous (using eyeliner and eyeshadow) to the extremist. The great photographs alone, make this book a must buy for anyone who uses makeup. It's so rewarding! You really won't be disappointed! It's the best $15 you'll ever spend!
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