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Binding: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Little Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: 1997-10
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Sales Rank: 168112
Studio: Little Brown and Company
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Product Description:
A successful makeup artist to the stars presents more of his makeup hints and tricks in an illustrated guide that serves as a follow-up to his previous The Art of Makeup. Reprint. 150,000 first printing. Tour.
Amazon.com Review:
The faces that Kevyn Aucoin has made are stellar and luminous:Cher, Tina Turner, Vanessa Williams, and Julia Roberts are but a fewof the stars in Aucoin's galaxy of clientele. More than making do,making up is the art of achieving your own special look, and Aucoininsists that there are no hard and fast rules--except for the obviousones, such as 'Don't put lipstick in your eye.'
The firstsection offers, in his own words, Aucoin's favorite ideas, tricks, andtechniques for enhancing, defining, and altering facial features withmakeup. You'll learn how to care for your skin, what foundation touse with your skin type, and transformational magic for that centralplayer in the drama of beauty: eyes. Through his gallery ofnoncelebrity before-and-afters, Aucoin shows clearly how to use hisfundamentals to achieve dozens of different looks.
The gorgeousfinal chapter reads like a list of exotic characters in a play--theVamp, the Siren, the Diva.... In fact, such celebrities as IsabellaRosselini, Demi Moore, and Nicole Kidman pose as these dramatic,splendidly made-up characters. These sumptuous photographsare accompanied by full-page illustrations listing the'ingredients' required to create these looks as well assimple directions for achieving them. The introduction by the author,at once amusing and endearing ('...trying to conceal the factthat I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with aserious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hideDolly Parton in a string bikini!'), and Aucoin's commentarythroughout, makes Making Faces a unique referencebook--beautiful, informative, and personal.
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent book on makeup
I got this book after seeing its companion, "Face Forward" in the library. Like "Face Forward", the book is a collection of photos of famous people made up to look like other famous people, with detailed descriptions of how it was done. This book has more basic makeup tips than "Face Forward" and is suitable for a beginner. I think it's a really good guide not just on how to apply makeup but also how to really use it effectively. I got it as a resource for my houseful of pre-teen daughters who will ... Read More
Rating: - good tips
shows you how to do different make ups for different occasions, for you face, complexion, right tool to use, etc...easy to follow instructions.
Rating: - BUY THIS BOOK! NOW!!!
If you've bought a beauty DIY book in the past decade you know that HALF the content invariably comprises the writer's flagrant self-promotion, while the other half, advertising for commercial products...often from the writer's own [or their friends'] brand lines. No so with 'MAKING FACES!' Almost every page offers realistic, achievable enhancements for real life women, using generic products.
Contrary to one silly review, you cannot "flip through this book at Barnes & Noble" because ... Read More
Rating:  - Some useful photos, some not so useful...
OK. This is the first ever makeup book I bought -
and about one third of the photos in the book and
the techniques shared are practical AND useful for
the everyday person.
The other one third are more fashion-editorial,
and period-pieces kind of images supposedly for our
inspiration... but not quite so useful in daily life.
Now the other one third of the pictures in the book
are quite useless for me - because a) some are in black
and ... Read More
Rating: - Imaginative Creations
Although this book is not the necessarily the best for cosmetic application instruction, the transformations that Kevyn Aucoin created are absolutely amazing and beautiful.
The first time I saw this book, I knew I had to have it.
Anyone who is a big makeup fan should have it.
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