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The Beauty Workbook: A Commonsense Approach to Skin Care, Makeup, Hair, and Nails
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Book Description
Bold, hip, and brimming with great insider advice, The Beauty Workbook is the ultimate interactive guide to personal care for women. Beauty expert Cynthia Robins demystifies products and regimens and streamlines the overwhelming bounty of information into smart, lively text. Each tabbed chapter offers up hundreds of fantastic tips and practical counsel on how to: Slow the aging process
Navigate the maze of makeup counters
Protect against sun damage
Choose colors that work best for your particular style and skin tone
And more The quizzes and exercises help appraise skin, hair, and nail types to determine the ideal approach to personal beauty. Tons of vibrant photographs, drawings, and color swatches make for easy reference and inspiration. With a handy back pocket for storing clippings, labels, and more, The Beauty Workbook is every woman's indispensible guide to looking and feeling beautiful.
Customer Reviews:
Review 1. Weird drawings, questionable science., 2005-03-27
This book was fun to look at, but not really usable. Lots of stylized drawings and self-aggrandizing tales by the author and not a lot of realistic how-to. Also, the explanations about skin care were clearly not written by anyone with a science or medical background.
Review 2. A Basic Beauty Guide With Heart, 2005-02-14
I must agree to some extent that some (but not all) of the beauty instruction/info within this book is fairly basic. Yet I enjoyed this book much more than I did any of the other beauty books I've read. Robins makes this book special by sprinkling it with personal beauty anecdotes and reminiscences. For example, she takes the reader back in time to the "Fabulous Fifties," when she worked in a department store's cosmetics department. She recalls her childhood jealousy of her best friend's gorgeous hair, as well as her childhood fascination for her mother's beauty routine. She bemoans her teenage quest for the perfect tan.
Aside from personal stuff, Robins also includes some looks back at the cosmetic brands, campaigns, and fads of the past.
If you're a beginner, I think this book will provide good basic information for you. If you're a seasoned cosmetics aficionado with little patience or who is only out for new info, don't bother. But if you (like myself) can find delight in simply talking about cosmetics and beauty and don't mind sitting through related anecdotes and history, then this should prove an enjoyable read for you.
Review 3. Just what I needed, 2004-08-03
It has been several years since I wore makeup regularly, and lately I had gotten overwhelmed by all the different types on the market today. And I dont read Cosmo. So this book really helped make sense of the dizzying array of products to choose from, and now I'm not so intimidated by the hags at the makeup counter.
Review 4. Great book but..., 2003-02-25
This is a great book, with lots of information written in it, but I guess I was expecting more photos, and there are none. There are drawings, drawings of colors, etc. I was looking for more of a "how to with full color photos" I guess, this is not it. I was looking for more pictures.
Review 5. Waste of time and money, 2002-11-13
This book had very few colour photos, no application techniques, and often incorrect statements about hair and skin types. There were no insightful tips or "insider information" that would have been useful to back up my current knowledge. Everything was rather juvenile, with suggestions such as "wear sunscreen" and the use of a curling iron too often can "damage your hair." Who doesn't already know that? The "advice" is not worth your money!
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