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Making Faces
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.72
EAN: 9780316286855
ISBN: 0316286850
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: September 02, 1999
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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Editorial Review:
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.
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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.
Rating: - A must have.
I bought this book and Face Forward for my 13 y.o. niece. I am a professional makeup artist and she has expressed an interest in makeup too. Anyway, she has really enjoyed them. They are great books to have for reference or just for fun and inspiration. Kevyn AuCoin is amazing.
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