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From skincare expert and founder of the thriving organic skincare line SW Basics comes a guide to all-natural skincare as stunning in its effectiveness as it is in its simplicity As healthy consumers, we've become all too aware that the food industry sells us products labeled as "healthy" and "all-natural" that, upon closer inspection, are actually full of processed ingredients. But what about the "natural" face wash or "organic" moisturizer we use on our skin every day? The truth is that the modern skincare and cosmetics industry is a lot like the processed food industry: just like boxes of sugary cereal boast of "whole grains and vitamins," the products we use on our skin don't often deliver the benefits they promise, and eye-catching packaging camouflages a host of unappetizing ingredients. In Skin Cleanse, skincare expert Adina Grigore shows readers that, just like quitting junk food-when we detox from our skincare regimen, our bodies reap the rewards. Now in paperback, Skin Cleanse helps readers diagnose and understand the underlying causes of their individual skin problems and offers all-natural recipes (using inexpensive ingredients that can be found at the grocery store, such as coconut oil, sea salt, and apple cider vinegar) for treating them effectively. From learning about how diet and lifestyle factors affect the quality of your skin to examining what, exactly, is in the dozens of products we use every day, Grigore helps readers hit the "restart" button when it comes to their skin and develop healthy habits that will last a lifetime.
The Business of Beauty is a unique exploration of the history of beauty, consumption, and business in Victorian and Edwardian London. Illuminating national and cultural contingencies specific to London as a global metropolis, it makes an important intervention by challenging the view of those who-like their historical contemporaries-perceive the 19th and early 20th centuries as devoid of beauty praxis, let alone a commercial beauty culture. Contrary to this perception, The Business of Beauty reveals that Victorian and Edwardian women and men developed a number of tacit strategies to transform their looks including the purchase of new goods and services from a heterogeneous group of urban entrepreneurs: hairdressers, barbers, perfumers, wigmakers, complexion specialists, hair-restorers, manicurists, and beauty "culturists." Mining trade journals, census data, periodical print, and advice literature, Jessica P. Clark takes us on a journey through Victorian and Edwardian London's beauty businesses, from the shady back parlors of Sarah "Madame Rachel" Leverson to the elegant showrooms of Eugene Rimmel into the first Mayfair salon of Mrs. Helena Titus, aka Helena Rubinstein. By revealing these stories, Jessica P. Clark revises traditional chronologies of British beauty consumption and provides the historical background to 20th-century developments led by Rubinstein and others. Weaving together histories of gender, fashion, and business to investigate the ways that Victorian critiques of self-fashioning and beautification defined both the buying and selling of beauty goods, this is a revealing resource for scholars, students, fashion followers, and beauty enthusiasts alike.
An easy-breezy makeup tutorial in manga form! For anyone intimidated by the world of makeup, you're in luck--a former beauty consultant turned comic artist is here to walk you through it. Join the author as she breaks down the fundamentals of cosmetics and skin care, guided by common questions from her online followers! Learn the basics and develop your own signature style! The perfect illustrated how-to book for fans of makeup tutorials online.
Radiantly healthy skin, hair, feet, hands, eyes, and nails.
Commercial beauty products make this promise every day and live up
to it with varying degrees of success. Stephanie Tourles offers a
better solution to everyone frustrated with the endless cycle of
expensive, synthetic, famous-name cosmetics that often fall short
of expectations. Take control of beauty treatments with homemade
products that use safe, nourishing ingredients to pamper the body
and soothe the senses.
This easy-to-follow guide shows how you can achieve that flawless and pretty look, but stay natural and real at the same time. This book will show you how to: - Look after your skin so that it looks healthy and beautiful - Apply your foundation perfectly to contour your face - Emphasise your eyes for a natural or a smokey evening look - Choose your lip colour and apply your lipstick - Match your make-up to your prom dress or party clothes It also includes make-up tips and must-haves for your handbag. Author Emily says: I have written this book to teach you the art of applying perfect makeup, and to help you create the right look for you, your skin and most importantly your age. Contents: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Beautiful Skin; 3. The Perfect Base; 4. Emphasise Your Eyes; 5. Pretty Lips; 6. Play with your Looks; 7. Prom Queen; 8. Party Girl; 9. Pre-teen Princess; 10. Top Ten Tips; 11. 5-minute Looks You'll Love; 12. Top Tips for Summer Skin; 13. Top Tips for Winter Skin... 14. The Beauty of Nature; 15. Aloe Vera - Nature's Gift; 16. Your Questions Answered; 17. Be Inspired; Acknowledgements. Index.
Every woman can accentuate her God-given beauty using the hidden treasures of the ancient Scriptures. Ginger Garrett reveals how every woman can accent her God-given
beauty using the hidden treasures of the ancient Scriptures-where
every scent and every act of beautification had spiritual and
emotional significance.
Silver hair will show you how to decide if you're ready to give up the hair colour servitude, what method of going gray will be most comfortable to you and how to keep your hair and total look beautiful and youthful. With photos taken of real women over one year of growing out their colour, you'll see the various ways to grow out gray, from 'all natural' - minus the skunk line! - to low-lights, silverstreaks, a pixie cut, and dyeing your hair gray as your natural silver emerges. And in a section on 'how to stay gorgeously gray,' you'll find tips on caring for silver hair (complete with homemade hair care recipes) and how to complement your silver hair with clothing and makeup.
In Search of Perfumes is a fragrant journey across the world, revealing the beauty and mysteries of the perfume trade. Fruits, flowers, spices, bark, leaves, and branches are just some of the natural ingredients from the plant world that are used in the creation of perfume. Dominique Roques, travelling from Andalusia to Somaliland by way of Bulgaria, Laos, El Salvador, Indonesia and Egypt, describes his search to find the best natural ingredients, precious to perfumers everywhere. In Search of Perfumes demonstrates how the prestigious multi-million-pound perfume industry may begin its life as a single plant harvested by producers surviving on ancestral traditions and techniques and often risking their lives in the process as they combat the rising threat of climate change. Roques reveals the beauty and mysteries of a familiar trade; a return to the source of the world's scents.
Anyone can reverse facial aging using Dr Seckel's six-step programme and the products that he recommends. As a plastic surgeon he can make a face appear to be 20 years younger. But the goal here is to reverse and prevent the onset of ageing. And it works, it really works. In his book he presents the truth about the causes, prevention and treatment of facial ageing. It presents the accessible, basic technical information that readers need to empower themselves. Without it, they are not be able to understand the emptiness of promises made to them by the marketing men. With this book, they will no longer be fooled by advertisements that insult their intelligence.
Take Your Skin to the Next Level with This Guide to Korean Skin Care "This book feels like talking with a trusted friend, one so generous with practical advice and wisdom. I wish our Dermatology textbooks had chapters like these!" -Dr. Erin Tababa-Santos, creator of The Nerdy Derma #1 New Release in Massage and Skin Ailments Have you always longed for that fresh, glowing, no-makeup look? With this step-by-step guide to Korean skincare routines, anyone can attain healthy skin. But Skincare for Your Soul takes it one step further it guides you to a place where skincare is also self-care. The Korean skin care journey. As much as we'd like, glowing, clear skin doesn't happen overnight. But there is beauty in the process not just the results. Author Jude Chao links skincare to self-care culture, giving readers a practical guide to developing an ideal skincare routine and using it to help manage stress, anxiety, and depression. The Korean skincare routine invites us to look at our skincare not only as a way to reduce lines and wrinkles or clear up breakouts, but as a tool for developing our self-care habits. Steady improvement is the goal. Photoshopped perfection is neither realistic nor a healthy goal. What matters is caring for our mental health and building our self-esteem by intentionally taking time each day to give our skin some love. But it starts with changing how we view skincare and developing a routine that fits our personal needs and goals, and Chao helps you do that. Dive into Chao's book on K-beauty and discover: An easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to skincare A clear breakdown of skincare products (not brands), and pros and cons to help customize your routine How Korean skin care can be a reliable and effective mental health management tool Tips for avoiding common types of exploitative and manipulative beauty marketing If you enjoyed books like The Little Book of Skin Care, The Skincare Bible, or Glow from Within, you'll love Skincare for Your Soul.
Danto simply and entertainingly traces the evolution of the concept of beauty over the past century and explores how it was removed from the definition of art. Beauty then came to be regarded as a serious aesthetic crime, whereas a hundred years ago it was almost unanimously considered the supreme purpose of art. Beauty is not, and should not be, the be-all and end-all of art, but it has an important place, and is not something to be avoided. Danto draws eruditely upon the thoughts of artists and critics such as Rimbaud, Fry, Matisse, the Dadaists, Duchamp, and Greenberg, as well as on that of philosophers like Hume, Kant, and Hegel. Danto agrees with the dethroning of beauty as the essence of art, and maintains with telling examples that most art is not, in fact, beautiful. He argues, however, for the partial rehabilitation of beauty and the removal of any critical taboo against beauty. Beauty is one among the many modes through which thoughts are presented to human sensibility in art: disgust, horror, sublimity, and sexuality being among other such modes.
Eat Pretty meets 7 Minutes to Fit in this simple-to-follow guide to
facial exercises and clean beauty techniques for healthy, radiant skin.
Perfect for:
"Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that." --Eartha Kitt Let's face it: the aging process can impact your self-esteem and compromise your ability to put your best face forward. As women age, they look for help in applying makeup to achieve a more natural and bright look. Mature Makeup Applications Made Simple is specially written for the women who want to transform their appearance and enhance their innate beauty. By understanding how years of experience and wisdom is reflected in our face, Jennifer Stepanik teaches us how to embrace those memories, appreciate the life we've lived, and learn how to accentuate our finest facial features, while hiding the illusive passage of time. It's the right application of makeup--not simply the uses of anti-aging skincare--that will help you look your youthful best. This step-by-step, easy to understand guide is filled with numerous, complementary images and visuals. Stepanik gives you a fundamental course in all things makeup--from preparing your skin to the final application. It's an all-inclusive book designed to help you achieve whatever look you are going for--fresh, original or iconic. There is even a short, yet fascinating, history of makeup. In Mature Makeup Applications Made Simple, a few of the things you will learn about are: - Toning, cleansing, moisturizing and exfoliation - Makeup shelf life, ingredients, and types of bristles and brushes - Makeup application sequencing, with before and after examples - The application of foundation, types of foundations, concealer, and blush - In-depth colour theory - The tools and application of contouring - Lipstick, preparing lips, and using skin tone palettes to pick the right colour - Everything for the eyes: mascara, false eyelashes, eyelash extensions, eye shadow, eyeliner, and eyebrows - And so much more . . . If you've been hiding in the shadows, it's time to make your debut and do it right with Stepanik's flawless makeup methods. This is the one book that every mature woman needs to have in order to be the most attractive best self that they can be. Stepanik's gift lies in providing spot-on techniques, tips and tutorials, with supporting visuals that will enable anyone to transform their appearance, while emphasizing and enhancing the inner and outer beauty they already possess. "Your makeup should never precede you, but walk with you." -- Estee Lauder
'This bestseller beauty bible is full of straight-talking tips and wisdom for anyone in quest of the secret to eternal youth and beauty.' Irish Mail on Sunday 'The skin is an organ and should be respected accordingly' This is the mantra of award-winning skincare expert Jennifer Rock, also known as The Skin Nerd. We should feed our skin, shield it, and give it all the care and attention it needs - and deserves. in her first book, Jennifer shares all the passion, knowledge and expertise she has gathered over her extensive career to bring you the essential guide to healthy skin. Written with Jennifer's unique brand of humour and honesty, with nerd-isms galore, this book is jam-packed with 'skinformation' and advice to educate you about your skin needs at every stage of your life. It includes The 10 Skin Nerd Commandments, advice on anti-ageing, acne and other skin conditions, the benefits of a refreshing Spritz O'Clock, which skingredients to look out for (and which to avoid), and how your diet affects the body's largest organ. The Skin Nerd will teach you a holistic approach to looking after your skin inside and out, and give you the confidence to achieve glowing, healthy skin. 'Jennifer is one of the most knowledgeable, honest and reliable experts I know and trust in the industry. A must read for anyone interested in proper skincare' Triona McCarthy, Sunday Independent Beauty Editor
MILADY STANDARD ESTHETICS: ADVANCED, SECOND EDITION is an essential tool for students enrolled in advanced esthetics programs and critical for anyone serious about achieving a higher level of success in the beauty and wellness field. This new edition demonstrates Milady's commitment to providing the most current, cutting-edge educational resources to esthetic students and professionals anxious to expand and perfect their skills in one of the fastest growing industries of the day. It responds to the increasing demand for a more robust knowledge of skin care principles and techniques resulting from trends in medical esthetics as well as in hospitality and tourism. MILADY STANDARD ESTHETICS: ADVANCED encompasses the broad areas of advanced skin sciences, including skin disorders and the updated ABC's of skin cancer; advanced esthetic techniques and devices; spa and alternative therapies; and working in a medical setting, including plastic surgery procedures and pre- and post- medical treatments. An introductory section addresses changes in esthetics to keep the student up-to-date on the newest technology and products, plus the final two chapters delve into financial business and marketing skills vital for rounding out success in the world of esthetics
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