Product Description: Brenda Kinsel is the fairy godmother of fashion. Drawing on 20-plus years as an image consultant, in Fashion Makeover Kinsel helps women over 40 catapult themselves out of fashion ruts in one short month. Real women who may feel alienated by fashion magazines get the tools they need to overhaul their look from their clothes to their hair and makeup to, perhaps most important, their attitude all while staying true to their personality and not spending a fortune. Fashion Makeover presents a four-week plan of attack with clear, attainable goals. Packed with real life success stories, style solutions for every body type, confidence-inspiring motivation, and full-color fashion illustrations, this gorgeous manual puts women on the fast track to fantastic style.

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (September 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811857387
• ISBN-13: 978-0811857383
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.9 x 0.8 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #34,317 in Books

Brenda Kinsel's Fashion Makeover: 30 Days to Diva Style! (Paperback)

Product Description:  Kevyn Aucoin: a beautiful life chronicles the magical journey of this makeup guru as seen through the eyes of his family, friends, lovers, and fashion-industry insiders. It traces his beginnings in a Louisiana orphanage to the mysterious illness that tragically ended his life at age forty. Here, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Janet Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Britney Spears, Tina Turner, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Hilary Swank, Christy Turlington, Isabella Rossellini, and dozens of other luminaries reveal in exclusive interviews what made Kevyn so talented, funny, fiercely loyal, and ultimately irreplaceable.

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Atria (October 5, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743235835
• ISBN-13: 978-0743235839
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
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Kevyn Aucoin a beautiful life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist (Paperback)

Product Description: Featuring the youth-building cellulite diet. Blast cellulite with a powerful, effective three-step program. Every woman dreads it. But most women---even thin women---have it. Massage systems, topical creams, and going off caffeine won't budge cellulite, and dieting usually doesn't reduce it either. At last, The Cellulite Solution contains a simple three-pronged program that actually works to reduce dimpling. Drawing on thirty-five years of clinical experience, Dr. Murad has developed a cellulite-slaying method that is effective for woman of any age, no matter how severe their cellulite problem is. A triad of nutritional direction, lifestyle changes, and topical treatments combines to both prevent and get rid of cellulite. Follow Dr. Murad's program and you'll see "cottage cheese thighs" reduced and you'll notice smoother skin all over as your cells are replenished and plumped by water. Dr. Murad explains his complete water principle and why cell hydration-which is essential to healthy and young-looking skin-can't come from drinking water alone. As a bonus, Dr. Murad's program also reduces stretch marks!

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press (April 1, 2005)
• ISBN: 0312334613
• Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #3,615

Product Description: A complete guide to wedding beauty by a well-known makeup artist and beauty consultant. The author travels all over the country every month speaking to real women just like you. If you have always wanted to learn from a makeup artist that knows how to make a bride look her most beautiful then this is the book for you.

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press (November 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592332315
• ISBN-13: 978-1592332311
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #65,435 in Books

Makeup Makeovers: Weddings: Stunning Looks for the Entire Bridal Party (Paperback)

Product Description: You can apply makeup like a professional—let the experts and Marie Claire show you how. From the most accessible techniques to the most sophisticated tricks, this beautiful guide features the secrets of such cosmetic industry insiders as Bobbi Brown, Olivier Échaudemaison from Guerlain, and James Kaliardos from L’OrÉal Paris. Offering page after full page of informative color photos, everything from head to toenails is covered in striking close-up. Marie Claire Makeup is filled with lessons that will give you great results: find the freshest palettes for each season and smart ways to camouflage the effects of stress and exhaustion on your skin; see how to enhance facial structure, contour and highlight eyes with Technicolor brilliance, put on false eyelashes, shape brows, and create luscious lips in shades ranging from near-natural to the sexiest red. It’s a step-by-step guide to creating the right look for every face and any occasion.

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Hearst; 1 Tra edition (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588166686
• ISBN-13: 978-1588166685
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #536,695 in Books

Marie Claire Makeup (Marie Claire) (Paperback)

Product Description: New looks for the new century come courtesy of Rona Berg, former beauty editor of the New York Times Magazine and Elle. In Beauty: The New Basics she demystifies the subject with thorough discussions and recommendations. The emphasis is on beauty from within and making the most of one's own attributes. Her models are real women at various stages of maturity, and she doesn't shy away from discussing aging early on.

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761101861
• ISBN-13: 978-0761101864
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #102,228 in Books

Beauty, The New Basics (Paperback)

Product Description: Filled with spectacular photography, this lush makeup guide helps you make sense of your beauty needs, select from the plethora of new products, and discover the look that’s right for you. Distinguished beauty editor and makeup artist Leigh Toselli reveals her anti-aging secrets and explains the power of cosmetics. From skin-care basics to each major aspect of makeup application, she offers a comprehensive routine and illustrated instructions for a range of styles and moods. Find out how to choose and use foundation, work with concealers and powders, highlight those all-important eyes, and color lips and cheeks. Above all, you’ll learn how to create an individual color palette that will allow you to express your femininity with confidence for any occasion.

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: New Holland (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843308789
• ISBN-13: 978-1843308782
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #593,110 in Books

The Complete Make-Up and Beauty Book (Paperback)

Product Description: With detailed discussions and eye-catching, dynamic images, this guidebook shows professional photographers how to masterfully create beautiful images of a model to achieve any creative objective. Instructions illustrate basic poses as well as a host of subtle variations to provide photographers with an endless array of looks for editorial fashion shots, athletics, glamour or nude photography, and shots designed to show curves, reveal personality, or showcase the hands, hair, or legs. This comprehensive resource also provides expert advice on conducting a successful session, how to work with the model, how to work with a support staff of image stylists, and tips for designing a high-quality portfolio. Additional lessons provide a start-to-finish analysis of four different shooting sessions, each with a different model and a different objective.

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc. (January 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584282207
• ISBN-13: 978-1584282204
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,422 in Books

Posing Techniques for Photographing Model Portfolios (Paperback)

Product Description: Covers all aspects of the modeling industry, written by an agent and photographer with decades of experience. Describes modeling types you didn't even know existed, what they require, and how to get into them. Mainstream fashion and commercial modeling, alternative modeling types and the burgeoning new field of Internet modeling discussed in detail. Includes a special chapter on child modeling. Different types of agencies, and what to expect from each. Getting an agency (or getting work without one). What is expected of you by clients, casting directors and agencies. and who are all of those people? How go-sees and shoots work, and the paperwork involved. Modeling and the law: agency contracts, copyright and model's rights, including samples of the commonly used forms. A detailed description of many modeling scams, and the myths that surround them. Model safety. Essay that decodes the things said by photographers and agents that don't mean what they say.

• Paperback: 172 pages
• Publisher: The Newmodels Academy (June 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615146775
• ISBN-13: 978-0615146775
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #94,632 in Books

The Professional's Guide to Modeling (Paperback)