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239 pages : colour illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 27 x 26 cm
Language
English
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A practical book on the art of makeup. It offers expert advice, tips, insider secrets and instructions for specialist techniques for the novice or professional makeup artist. It covers topics ranging from creating period looks to using glitter and crystals to body-art and airbrushing techniques.
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293 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares instructional guidelines for skin care, nutrition, and fashion based on the strategies of famous providers, in a reference that also features step-by-step photographs demonstrating the author's makeup techniques.
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208 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Examines how people use makeup as a strategy and a coping mechanism to get by in a world not made for them"--
Every woman has had to make a very personal choice about her relationship with makeup, but often the choice is not entirely hers to make. Nudson unpacks makeup's cultural impact: how it can be used to shape a personal or cultural narrative, how often beauty standards align with whiteness, how and when it can be used for safety, and its function...
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Series
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English
Description
"Did you know that a Roman woman was executed in the 1600s for selling a poisonous lipstick that women kissed their husbands to death with? Or that women painted their teeth and nails with radium for a special glow? From Cleopatra to Carole Lombard, Madam C.J. Walker to Madame de Pompadour, Elizabeth I to Elizabeth Taylor, and geishas to flappers, the history of makeup has many exciting, and some deadly moments. This fascinating book is sure to attract...
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xi, 287 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Made Up: How the Beauty Industry Manipulates Consumers, Preys on Women's Insecurities, and Promotes Unattainable Beauty Standards takes a hard look at the multibillion-dollar beauty industry, which promotes unrealistic beauty standards, perpetuates gender stereotypes, and uses sexual objectification to sell products. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 explores the global beauty industry, traces the cultural history of cosmetics, examines...
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372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South Korea's booming "K-beauty" industry and the culture it promotes"--
The skincare and makeup products of Korea work together to fascinate us, champion consumerism, and invite us to indulge. Hu has spent four years in Seoul as NPR's bureau chief, and here she turns her eye to the darker questions lurking beneath the story. When technology makes it easy...
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172 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
La cara es nuestra carta de presentación en sociedad. Nuestras relaciones personales, sociales y laborales están condicionadas en gran medida por la sensación que transmite nuestro rostro, tanto en forma como en expresión. Una cara placentera tiene una serie de características que podemos definir y acotar. Una cara desagradable lo es, igualmente, por una serie de rasgos que podemos concretar y, en consecuencia, modificar. Gran parte de nuestro...
13) Made in Korea
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326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two entrepreneurial Korean-American teens butt heads-and fall in love-while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school"--
Valerie Kwon and her cousin Charlie run V&C K-BEAUTY, their school's most successful student-run enterprise. With each sale, Valerie gets closer to taking her beloved and adventurous grandmother to her dream city, Paris. Wes Jung, the new kid in class, is determined to pursue music after graduation. When...
14) Frizzy
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212 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marlene loves three things: art, her cool tía Ruby and hanging out with her best friend, Camila. But according to her mother, Paola, the only things she needs to focus on are school and growing up. That means straightening her hair every weekend so she can have 'presentable,' 'good' hair. But Marlene hates being in the salon and doesn't understand why her curls are not considered pretty by those around her. With a few hiccups, a dash of embarrassment,...
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xiii, 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics, and discover how, for centuries, women have turned to make-up as a rich source of creativity, community and resistance. The Renaissance was an era obsessed with appearances. And beauty culture from the time has left traces that give us a window into an overlooked realm of history - revealing everything from 16th-century women's body anxieties to their sophisticated botanical and chemical knowledge. 'How...
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