Bobbi Brown Living Beauty

by Bobbi Brown

Overview

On the eve of her 50th birthday, bestselling beauty-book author and cosmetics industry icon Bobbi Brown offers expert makeup tips that can redefine beauty for women in midlife, with more than 200 full-color photos illustrate her advice.
Bobbi Brown, CEO of a major cosmetics company bearing her name, began the trend toward natural-looking cosmetics and has gathered a loyal fan base of top editors at elite fashion magazines, including InStyle, Vogue, Allure and Harper's Bazaar. Celebrities such as Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Susan Sarandon, and Oprah--as well as millions of "regular" women throughout the world--swear by her beauty advice.

Just in time for her 50th birthday, Bobbi Brown has written THE book redefining beauty for women over 40, BOBBI BROWN LIVING BEAUTY. In this refreshing look at beauty and aging, Bobbi offers readers specific surgery-free solutions for a stunning face, showing how makeup can solve many of the "flaws" that many women go under the knife to fix. In fact, the right makeup can create glowing skin, lift the cheeks, plump the skin...and take years off a woman's face. Bobbi demonstrates how it's done.

With step-by-step makeup instructions and inspiring essays by role models like Susan Sarandon and Lorraine Bracco, Bobbi Brown's natural approach to aging will enlighten and inspire women everywhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780446552233
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	04/06/2009
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	924,128
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Bobbi Brown is an internationally renowned makeup artist and CEO of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. Her products are sold in more than 400 stores and 20 countries worldwide. Bobbi is also the exclusive beauty editor of NBC's Today show and a frequent guest on E! and the Style channels.

Table of Contents

Foreword   Debra Winger     viii
Introduction: The Living Beauty Philosophy     xii
Role Models: Words of Wisdom from Women Who Have Come of Age Beautifully     1
Skin Savers: What a Good Dermatologist Can Do for You     19
The Makeup Face-Lift: Surgery-Free Ways to Wipe Away the Years     43
Your Crowning Glory: How a Cut and Color Can Lift Your Look     95
Instant Updates: Unexpected Ways to Turn Back the Hands of Time     111
Menopause: Dealing With "The Change"-Beautifully     125
The Real Fountain of Youth: Eat Well and Break a Sweat     143
Head-to-Toe Makeovers: Fresh Ways to Modernize Your Look     167
Beautiful Inside and Out: Women Who Get It     179
Conclusion: Create Your New Ideal     202
Resources     204
Acknowledgments     206

Editorial Reviews

In a society where youthfulness is a crazy obsession, aging seems almost a sin. Now safely past the half-century mark herself, makeup artist and cosmetics CEO Bobbi Brown possesses the proper credentials to counsel other women on looking good without a surgeon's help. This production draws on celebrity wisdom and beauty shop workshops to lift aging faces and spirits. Bobbi Brown Living Beauty presents a healthful mix of advice covering hair, clothing, and makeup but not neglecting diet and exercise.

This artful, well-meaning book on beauty tips for women of "a certain age" might make a nice gift, but has little more depth than a glossy magazine. Now in her 50s, international makeup artist and beauty writer Brown celebrates female faces that have laugh lines. She encourages women to "age gracefully" without unnecessary plastic surgery by living healthy, taking care of their skin and utilizing a few tricks with makeup, hair and clothing. The first section features "Words of Wisdom" from older celebrities, such as Susan Sarandon, Vera Wang and Lorraine Bracco—most of which prove to be pretty thin. But it's Bobbi's suggestions on how to minimize problems particular to older women, (such as sunspots, baggy eyes and dull skin) that give the book an anchor. Subsequent chapters sensibly cover clothes and hair, then into menopause and hormone replacement therapy, plus diet and exercise. A final chapter celebrating "Women Who Get It" might have been fun, but the successful women profiled are not famous enough to merit much interest (e.g., the president of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, the vice chairman of Burberry and the CEO of Brooks Food Group). One of the most engaging aspects of the book are the photographs. Whether of beautifully aging faces, makeup that looks good enough to eat or healthy food that looks good enough to eat, the photos make the book coffee-table worthy. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

Brown, a celebrity makeup artist and CEO of the successful cosmetics line that bears her name, here offers surgery-free beauty solutions aimed at women over 40. As in her other books, she takes a candid look at beauty and aging and suggests makeup tricks to mask the flaws that affect women as they grow older. Chapters cover skin care, makeup, nutrition, and fitness, along with plenty of before-and-after color photos of real women. Brown's tips and advice are practical, with clear step-by-step makeup instructions to correct such problems as uneven skin tone and droopy eyelids. Also included are inspirational quotes from female celebrities of a certain age like actresses Susan Sarandon and Vanessa Williams. If readers enjoyed Bobbi Brown Beauty Evolution: A Guide to a Lifetime of Beauty, then they'll appreciate this book as well. Recommended for large public libraries.
—Christine Holmes

Library Journal