very good basics book | The 5-Minute Face: The Quick & Easy Makeup Guide for Every Woman

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	• The 5-Minute Face: The Quick & Easy Makeup Guide for Every Woman Carmindy Collins Living, 2007 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 56 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Good product

This is great. Supplies info not just for achieving a five minute face but also for matching make up colours to skin tone and hair colour as well make techniques for certain age groups.

very good basics book

The 5-minute face delivers exactly what it has promised - it's a "quick and easy makeup guide". Nothing fancy, nothing complicated. True enough, I did learn how to create a (nearly!) flawless face in 5 minutes, which helped me heaps in the few precious minutes before leaving for work. There are a number of beautiful photos too. However, I distinctly remember wondering why they used a flawless woman (who had brown eyeliner on) in the 5-minute routine photos. I couldn't spot the difference before and after the application of foundation.

This is not the book for makeup artists or fanatics. This book will just bore you. But if you want to know the fundamentals of makeup (and become a makeup artist or fanatic later on) - this would be the best book to buy.

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I like Carmody and I got the book and I returned the book. If I were younger I'd be raving about the book however, I'm older and would really like to see a book for us "old broads" on what to do with make up. This book stops at 50, well I didn't stop at 50 so if you are older than dirt, don't get the book. Will someone out there do something for us over the hill gang, please!

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Everything you need to know to be a makeup artist

This is one of the best written, do-it-yourself makeup book out on the market. No elaborate tricks, no special lighting, no hard-to-find products. No cookie cutter look of the same color makeup applied to different women.

This book will quickly and easily help you find the best makeup products and colors based on your age, hair and skin color.

PROS
* It takes you step by step, from skin care, to picking the right foundation, to getting perfect brows, to the 5-minute basic make-up routine that is great by itself and/or becomes the basis for more other looks (black tie, holiday, vacation, wedding).
* Only 3-7 beauty products are needed, usually available at your local drugstore or department store.
* There's a complete list of recommended products in back - each with a splurge ($$$) or inexpensive option ($). It would be useful to know about this up front instead of finding it in back by surprise as not everyone would read the book all the way though.
* There are wonderful pictures and how-to instructions to follow specifically for redheads, brunettes or blondes. For light skinned, Asian, mocha skinned, dark skinned, or olive skinned. For teenagers, and for women in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s (grey hair). Special looks - smoky eye, retro, bronze goddess, jewel tones.
* For each section, there are tips and a list of makeup products/ colors to achieve the look shown.
* The book more than pays for itself as you get specific product recommendations based on your coloring from a top makeup pro. Don't panic - the colors suggested sometimes look unusual (pearly highlighter, eggplant eyeshadow, light peach blush) but once applied they look great and very natural.

CONS:
* The routine is so simple and the list of best products so small, it's almost minimalist, but it works! You might see all the makeup you bought in the past (and barely used) and regret it.
* There seems to be a look for anyone and everyone, so a lot of it won't apply to you. Nonetheless, there are useful tips throughout - as well as wonderful pictures - it's worth reading it all the way through.
* There are no "before" pictures, although the makeup is so natural looking that you don't notice the makeup, you just see that each woman looks great.

In all, a great buy if you're looking for simple makeup routine that's easy and inexpensive to duplicate at home.

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great comprehensive makeup coverage

Carmindy did a good job. I have been using make up for 15 years now, but there was always something missing. I had a feeling that I don't know how to use make up, and I don't like exploring it myself. I want to be done and look good. I do read magazines and I read several books about make up, but here I learned several valuable tricks that made me go from OK to great.
Thank you Carmindy

Good beauty advice is hard to come by these days. Women are constantly inundated with products that promise to remove wrinkles, reduce puffiness, highlight cheekbones, hide blemishes, and make them look younger, healthier, tanner, and even thinner?but do these products really work? Are they worth the time, money, and effort? Carmindy, makeup artist on TLC's popular show What Not to Wear, believes that the secret to a great look is to focus on the positive: learn how to enhance your best natural features with sheer washes of color rather than hide under layers of artificial?looking makeup. In The 5?Minute Face, Carmindy shares her beauty philosophy, offering a practical, easy, and always?successful makeup routine that works for all ages and skin types.

The steps for achieving the five?minute face?from smoothing on foundation, to slicking on lip color?are simple. But as Carmindy demonstrates, many women don't know which product is right for their skin tones, or are clueless on how to apply makeup for optimal results. Throughout every chapter, she provides valuable advice on perfecting the makeup technique that is right for your face, including product tips and accompanying "toolbox" sections that describe which tools to use with each type of makeup.

No matter what your age is, or whether you have porcelain skin or rosacea, Carmindy will help you look fabulous. In addition to the 5?minute makeover, she discusses:

?How to Get Brows That Wow: Learn what brow shape best frames your face

?What's Age Got to Do with It?: Tricks and trade secrets that keep every woman looking beautiful, from teens to women fifty and over.

?Beauty Comes in All Colors: Freckles? Blemishes? Carmindy solves the problems that make finding the perfect makeup for your skin tone difficult. Also includes tips on lash dying for those fair lashes, and lash perming for those who want permanently curled lashes.

?The 10?Minute Face: Carmindy shows how to build on the 5?minute face for special occasions. Everything from sexy dates?looking right in all white at your wedding?to the perfect look for a job interview.

Accompanied throughout by Palma Kolansky's beautiful photography, The 5?Minute Face is every woman's guide to enhancing their unique and beautiful features with the perfect makeup routine.

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