Best Hair Care & Styling
The Science of Black Hair is the ultimate consumer textbook on black hair care. Hair science, research and testimony combine in this carefully written text designed to examine black hair on a deeper level. Win the war against breakage. The Science of Black Hair Chapter 1: Scalp and Hair Structure, Function, and Characteristics. Chapter 2: Textured Hair Properties & Principles. Chapter 3: Understanding Hair Growth and Damage for Healthier Hair Care. Chapter 4: What's Your Hair Care Regimen?
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Audrey's book has many guidelines to use for hair care and hair treatment."
"This book answers all those and more."
"Good read for all who care for more than just hair length and styling but having really healthy looking hair that starts with a healthy scalp first."
"I appreciate the author also focusing on permed and colored hair, because everyone's hair is not natural."
"I felt lost about having natural hair as I've had my hair since i was 9 either relaxed or in weaves or something else but never ever natural; until i felt the need to actually see what i look like with my own hair."
"As someone who (as a result of the remote area in which I live) has 100% responsibility for the care and styling of my hair with limited access to commercial products, this is where I got the basics of establishing a healthy hair-care regimen that I can do on my own. As someone into a healthy lifestyle, I also appreciated the whole-body recognition, with the references to important vitamins, minerals, and a healthy lifestyle for growing stronger hair."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Great buy!"
"I LOOOOOVE This book!"
"This book has been around for so long but I always purchased other things instead of this one."
"Even if you know how to do most of the styles or have an idea of how to do it this book has a plethora of styles to choose from. I recommend this book to anyone that is interested in doing hair or any girls at home that would like to learn how to do their own hair in these pin up styles."
"I love this book, mostly because of the nice pictures, but the hairstyles are waaaay too complicated to do simply by looking at the pictures or following the written instructions, I wish there was a DVD included."
"I am a professional hairdresser and I found this book immensely helpful when coming up with ideas for "retro" styles."
"I needed something to jazz up my look, so I started looking around on YouTube for ideas and came across one woman who specializes in pin up hair. This book also spans several decades from the early 1900's through the 1970's - From how to do a finger wave to how to pin up a beehive."
"This would be a great gift for high school girls, college women, and anyone interested in cosmetology. The book gives detailed information with pictures and explanations on how to do pin curls, how to section your hair, roll rollers, which way to curl your hair, and extra how-to's on painting your nails, makeup tutorials, and creating and using hair accessories including the famous Rosie the Riveter bandanna. The beautiful thing is most of the hair products/styling tools that are listed in the book are here on Amazon for those that are lacking in this department like me."
Milady Standard Natural Hair Care and Braiding is designed to be the training resource of choice for individuals committed to nurturing textured hair and providing excellent natural hair care services. Honored as a "Master Pioneer" and "trailblazer of the natural hair care industry" with over 25 years of experience, Ms. Bailey has positioned herself as an innovator and standard bearer for natural hair care. Ms Bailey has previously authored three books, Natural Hair Care and Braiding, Braiding-Easy Styles for Everyone, and Natural Hair Care- Easy Styles for Everyone. Ms. Bailey is currently a natural beauty consultant for Design Essentials Natural by McBride Research Laboratories and Shea Moisture by Sundial Inc.; she has developed workshops that feature the product line and demonstrate natural hair, locks, protective and transitional styling techniques.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It gives great details on all of the basics and is well laid out, easy to read and illustrated nicely as well."
"great deal.. and great information if ur a cosmo student i would get this for the real world...."
"This book is full of useful information pertaining to hair care...a lot of myths have been put to rest for me."
"love this book it tells you everything you nneed to know as a natural hair stylist."
"Very nicely written and simple to understand for a lay person."
"Milady books are the best."
"Extremely informative book."
"I love this book!"
Best Style & Clothing
America's preeminent makeup artist shares his secrets, explaining not only the basics of makeup application and technique but also how to use the fundamentals to create a wide range of different looks. 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. 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!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If you are looking for a book that goes into depth about makeup application this would not be my first recommendation."
"The classic makeup manual by an unparalleled artist."
"The book itself is amazing, it's a must have for every makeup lover."
"I am officially addicted to make up - and love finding out the tricks of the trade, so this book was perfect."
"As a makeup artist this is good to have in the collection."
"Overall a good book if you like makeup and just love taking in anything makeup related."
"This was a great gift for the makeup savvy people in my life."
Best Men's Grooming & Style
Taking the reader through each major clothing classification step-by-step, this user-friendly guide helps you apply your own specifics to a series of dressing options, from business casual and formalwear to pattern-on-pattern coordination, or how to choose the most flattering clothing silhouette for your body type and shirt collar for your face. Dressing the Man 's sheer magnitude of options will enable the reader to expand both the grammar and verbiage of his permanent-fashion vocabulary. “A Hoyle’s, a Fowler’s, a Webster’s, a Baedeker’s, a Machiavelli’s, a von Clausewitz’s guide to men’s dress.” (Tom Wolfe).
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It gives you great information about how certain styles were born."
"A very well written history of dress, with contemporary applications."
"While the book does give ideas as to what would look good with your particular build, height, and skin tone. along with keeping clothes in proportion to your physique, which is crucial, I feel it goes a little to. deep into the history of the different styles of clothes."
"A definite must have for anyone interested in men's style along with Bernhard Rotzel's Gentleman: The Ultimate Companion to the Elegant Man."
"this is a great book and got a great deal on here."
"If it pertains to clothing, style, manner, gentility, you'll find it here."
"But this isn't merely a picture book, although any book on dressing well must lead with pictures."
"Alan Flusser is a master for sure."
Best Skin Care
Milady's Skin Care and Cosmetic Ingredients Dictionary, 4th Edition is more than just a dictionary of cosmetic ingredients; it is a guide to understanding skin types and skin physiology, product formulation and how cosmetic products interact with the skin. Chief Scientific Officer--Emeritus for Pharma Cosmetix Research and a former Vice President of Research & Development for Revlon-Almay Inc., Mr. DiNardo was the VP of R&D for Almay Hypoallergenic Cosmetics and spent many years leading research for the development of products dedicated to atopic dermatitis.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Love this book, great for educating yourself and your client!"
"If you make any kind of skin care product or are in the skin care industry, this is a great reference."
"This updated version is good."
"It's very helpful for estheticians!"
"Such a nice resource to have at home to look up ingredients."
"I chose the book after reading some of the reviews and deciding that I really did need this to complete my library of Skin Care information."
"has many of the products i wanted to research but wish it had more ingredients than the basics, there was a few i couldnt find but it still is a good dictionary."
Best Cosmetics
Face Forward is an inspirational and how-to guide to make-up from one of the most sought after and successful make-up artists working today. His crafted visages range from minimal-application makeovers of friends to elaborate re-creations of such Hollywood icons as Audrey Hepburn (Calista Flockhart), James Dean (Gwyneth Paltrow), and Veronica Lake (shockingly, Martha Stewart) and such pop-culture personalities as Cher (socialite Alexandra von Furstenberg) and Siouxsie Sioux (Winona Ryder). The final pages present his ideas for looks to come, such as "Explorer," Mary J. Blige covered in eggplant body makeup with a rainbow of metallic eye shadows over her eyes and thickly glossed red lips; "Floralia," a freckled Lucy Liu resembling a sprite from A Midsummer's Night Dream ; and "Venusian de Milo," Sharon Stone as an orange-haired, one-breast-baring sci-fi femme fatale.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It is a great book with picture and detailed information for creating the each celebrity look created, with the picture on one side and the information on the other page."
"I really enjoy Kevin Aucoin's books because I love his approach to beauty in general."
"Fabulous book...just love looking at all the photos; plus the author Kevyn is such a nice person...truly a humble and very caring individual."
"I read this book when I was a little girl and fell in love with cosmetics."
"Loved this book in make up application and different looks!"
"Very informative I loved all the techniques abd application ideas."
"Love this book by Kevyn Aucoin."