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Author: Kevyn Aucoin $13.21 Features:
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Editorial Review:
In Making Faces, Kevyn Aucoin, North Americas preeminent makeup artist, shares his secrets, explaining not only the basics of makeup application and technique but also how to use those fundamentals (sometimes in unconventional ways) to create a wide range of different looks. Making Faces features step-by-step directions, instructional full-colour sketches, and a gallery of noncelebrity transformations, as well as fabulous images of stars and supermodels as youve never seen them before.Lush and enticing, Making Faces satisfies on many levels: extraordinary photography, surprising makeup looks on A-list celebrities (Julia Roberts, Demi Moore, Courtney Love), and recipes for doing it yourself. ~ Mirabella Kevyn Aucoins new beauty bible is the Genesis, Chronicles, and Revelations of makeup. ~ Allure Kevie isnt a makeup man, hes a magician. He creates an atmosphere of beauty mixed with magic. ~ Cher Kevyns progression of work over the years has elevated makeup to an art form. ~ Tina Turner Kevyn enables each and every one of us to play the character we want to play, be the person we want to be, and most important, feel the best that we can feel about ourselves. ~ Drew Barrymore
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 eye."
The first section offers, in his own words, 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: eyes. Through his gallery of noncelebrity before-and-afters, Aucoin shows clearly how to use his fundamentals to achieve dozens of different looks.
The gorgeous final chapter reads like a list of exotic characters in a play--the Vamp, the Siren, the Diva.... In fact, such celebrities as Isabella Rosselini, Demi Moore, and Nicole Kidman pose as these dramatic, splendidly made-up characters. 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.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
If U like learning new ways to do makeup get thiz book: 
i really enjoy thiz oversized book tha pages of tha book are larger than normali guess to show more deatil n tha pictures..n thiz book really shows how to do really hot make up...stepby step thiz is a must get...
MUST OWN ASAP!:
This book was my go to book if i ever had a question during cosmetology school, i was so inspired by the amazing photography and inside pictures with kevyn himself! This isnt just inside tips and trick, This is a whole HOW TO Guide to kevyns makeup world! I wish when i was 16 i would have known about this book, its a must own hands down! Its worth more than what your paying for it on amazon!
Easy to Use Make Up:
This book gives great step-by-step ways to get a huge variety of different looks with make-up. It's easy to understand even for those who have never picked up a brush before. It's an easy to follow book that makes putting on makeup fun! I liked the celebrity makeovers in the end. Some of them weren't even recognizable! A great book that's very user friendly!!
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Product was exactly as described and shipped quickly. Would definitely use again. Thanks very much!
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