Making Faces by Kevyn Aucoin (The Art of Makeup) - Hardcover 1999

Description: "Making Faces" by Kevyn Aucoin – Hardcover (Oversized 9-1/4" x 12-1/4") - Published in 1999 by Little Brown & Co. - 160 pages (with over 100 great color photos of some of the most beautiful and famous models and actresses in the world) - EXCELLENT condition. 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. There are also fabulous full-page color photos of Janet Jackson, Chandra North, Jewel, Kate Moss, Gena Rowlands, Barbra Streisand, Tina Turner, Vanessa Brook, Dawn Brown, Lisa Marie Presley (as Marilyn Monroe), Tori Amos, Demi Moore, Courtney Love, Drew Barrymore, Andie MacDowell, Cher, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vanessa Williams, Nicole Kidman, Winona Ryder, just to name a few, are exquisitely made up by Aucoin and photographed by the world's most famous photographers. There is only some very minor wear (too insignificant to be visible in the scan), but this book is still in EXCELLENT condition. No collection of items on the art of makeup is complete without this outstanding book. Check out the scan for the great cover and so you can judge the condition for yourself (unlike many other booksellers, who post generic scans, the book in my scan is the one you will get). You can try to buy this book for less money from one of those eBay booksellers with hundreds, if not thousands of negatives (you know the ones I refer to) and be lucky if the book is delivered to you in the stated condition (if you even get it at all), or you can buy it from me and be assured of a prompt delivery and of receiving an item true to the condition indicated. You won't be disappointed. Don't get left out; this book is long out of print! All previous buyers of my Kevyn Aucoin books have been completely satisfied. I have several others available; please check my listings. The book will be sent via Media mail shipping in the USA. I will combine shipping to reduce charges for multiple items. If you purchase more than one item or lot, please request an invoice for the appropriate combined shipping discount. See my auctions and my eBay store for hundreds of books and a wide variety of sports and non-sports collectibles. All items are packed with care to insure safe delivery. Please contact me if you have any questions. 3-4-24 -- 40.6

Price: 33.99 USD

Location: Santa Ana, California

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