Product Description: The promise of beauty is as close as the drugstore aisle—shampoo that gives your hair more body, lotions that smooth away wrinkles, makeup that makes your skin look flawless, and potions that take it all off again. But while conventional products say they'll make you more beautiful, they contain toxins and preservatives that are both bad for the environment and bad for your body—including synthetic fragrances, petrochemicals, and even formaldehyde. In the end, they damage your natural vitality and good looks.

The Green Beauty Guide: Your Essential Resource to Organic and Natural Skin Care, Hair Care, Makeup, and Fragrances (Paperback)

Product Description: Moisturizers, shampoo, hair conditioners, and even hair dye can be formulated easily at home with this guide to natural beauty products—a revelation for those who have always sought such essentials in the drugstore aisle. Offering a health-enhancing break from detergents, lye, and harsh chemicals, this guide also emphasizes the usefulness of being able to customize soaps and lotions to a particular skin type and the fun of experimenting with various combinations of herbs for a face mask or an after-bath cologne. Advising that herbal baths should have a prominent role in a natural beauty routine, instructions are included for herbal bath bags, infusions, and decoctions, as well as herbal foot and steam baths.

Natural Body Care: More than 60 Simple Techniques to Enhance Your Health & Beauty (Hardcover)

Product Description: In Sephora: The Ultimate Guide to Makeup, Skin, and Hair from the Beauty Authority, fashion and beauty journalist and former Sephora beauty editor Melissa Schweiger personally introduces the people behind some of your favorite brands and fills this gorgeous book with the beauty secrets usually reserved for insiders. Each photo-packed page brims with words of wisdom and expert advice from the creators of and authorities on more than two hundred classic and emerging beauty brands sold at Sephora, including LORAC, Smashbox, Too Faced, Dr. Perricone, Frédéric Fekkai, and many, many more.

Sephora: The Ultimate Guide to Makeup, Skin, and Hair from the Beauty Authority (Hardcover)

Product Description: Following the success of the bestselling New Fashion Illustration comes this exciting visual bible for illustrators and graphic designers. Featuring nearly 1,000 new and innovative images, it provides an unprecedented variety of approaches to the field. An international array of artists offer inspirational examples of every technique, from traditional watercolors, acrylics, and pencil drawings to cutting-edge designs using the latest technology from Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia FreeHand, and digital photography. The fabulous fashions include womenswear (including couture and bridal); menswear (from t-shirts to bespoke); children’s clothing (tots to teens); and the hottest youth styles. Plus, there’s stuff for sport and leisure, cool accessories, and beauty and glamour illustrations.

Big Book of Fashion Illustration: A Sourcebook of Contemporary Illustration (Paperback)

Product Description: Simple, step-by-step outlines that emphasize exactly how to apply makeup complement high-fashion images and make this a gorgeous, glamorous guide that will inspire creative, festive faces. Even the most sophisticated and artistic makeup is easy to achieve with these tricks, techniques, and trade secrets. This reference explores all the essential tools needed, how to find the right products—and at the right price—which eye-shadow colors work best for individual eyes, and how to achieve perfect eyebrows and use fake eyelashes. The 10-minute makeovers for both daytime and evening looks help contour and highlight the face, making each one a walking, living piece of art.

Makeup: The Ultimate Guide (Paperback)

Product Description: Ever been overwhelmed by a closet that feels as if its filled with all the wrong pieces? Instant Style is the ultimate guide to streamlining, shopping for, and maintaining your ideal wardrobe all year round. The book starts with the basics, outlining essential clothing items for each seasonwinter coats, spring skirts, summer sandals, fall sweatersthen shows how to complement them with pieces that accentuate personal style.

In Style: Instant Style (Your Season-By-Season Guide for Work and Weekend) (Paperback)

Product Description: In That Extra Half an Inch, a tongue-in-cheek reference to her love of high heels, Beckham shares her tips for finding your own style including:

• Learning how to dress for special occasions

• Shopping for everyday wear and where to look for it

• Accessories: defining the looks that work best for you

• Helpful hints for the holidays

• Making the most of your wardrobe

• How to feel confident and look great every time you leave the house

That Extra Half an Inch is a beautiful, nothing-but-the truth, easy-to-use book on fashion, beauty and style. Victoria shares her personal style secrets so whether you're getting ready for work, a night out on the town or even doing the school run, you too can feel confident and look great every time you step out of the front door.

That Extra Half an Inch: Hair, Heels and Everything in Between (Paperback)

Product Description: The Complete Guide to Make-up is the definitive text for all aspiring make-up artists. This captivating book embraces all aspects of make-up and make-up artistry with an infectious enthusiasm. Suzanne Le Quesne’s love of her subject shines through in the style and flair of her writing, helping students on their way to a first class learning experience. Le Quesne provides a unique blend of encouragement combined with invaluable intuition and know-how to equip anyone aspiring to success within the make-up industry.

The Complete Guide to Make-up (Hairdressing and Beauty Industry Authority/Thomson Learning) (Paperback)

Product Description: Why do women care so much about their nails? It's simple: Well-groomed nails make your hands seem more alive, more important, and definitely sexier. And suddenly it's not just your hands feeling that way, but your whole self—which is why nails, and nail salons, are a huge and growing business, with more than 53,000 salons in the U.S. doing some $6.4 billion in business each year.

But now you can skip the spa and do your own nails—and here's the perfect author to show how. Ji Baek, the high-energy owner of New York's hottest nail salons, the Rescue Beauty Lounge—written about from Vogue to InStyle, Lucky to Harper's Bazaar, used by designers and stylists, patronized by actors, fashionistas, professionals, and more—presents the definitive guide to beautiful hands and feet.

Rescue Your Nails (Paperback)

Product Description: Skin, hair, teeth, nails: every CosmoGIRL! has a question about how to keep them healthy and great-looking. Is it true that toothpaste makes your zits go away? Lately my eyes look bloodshot. What can I do? I color my hair on my own. How can I make it look like I went to the salon? Fortunately, their favorite magazine has all the answers, from how to avoid a mascara mess to how to give yourself a professional-quality manicure. And it’s all here, in the latest Ask CosmoGIRL! guide. Every page is filled with invaluable advice for taming tresses, creating lush lashes and fuller-looking lips, shaping brows that wow, and getting a smoother, more even complexion. Top makeup artists and hairstylists offer their smartest tips, and the book’s multicultural approach addresses the concerns of all girls.

Ask CosmoGIRL! About Beauty: All the Answers to Your Questions About Hair, Makeup, Skin & More (Cosmogirl) (Paperback)