Making Faces

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According to Kevin, he argues that makeup can make anyone any race they want, saying he can be Asian one moment and Spanish the next. Kevin Aucoin 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. Still, I feel some concepts were a little dated such as using the exoticness of Asian women as a makeup look and picking a white model to illustrate this beauty. I've read it several times myself and my friends and family are always picking it up when they come over.

I think that the climate of today's cancel culture would definitely not let him get away with saying that so this book definitely shows it is from another era. Beautiful coffee table book, easy to follow instructional manual with products and makeup tools listed to recreate looks featured. Hence, he’s put together this book and packed it with more than 200 illustrations and invaluable tips for professional-grade makeup application. Back then I was probably more interested in the pictures than anything else this book had to offer (it has a lot!After the section on basics, there's a section of "looks" developed for ordinary people (male and female) alongside their own stories, which makes the book very accessible for those who might feel distant from the subject. Rita is Ferns best friend, she had a crush on Ambrose through high school but grew up into a bad situation. the photos and actual makeup looks in this book are stunning, and as i said i really enjoyed hearing kevyns thoughts, which are mostly the books saving graces for me and keep its rating two stars, but with all its deficits in mind, i wouldnt recommend this book to as many people as i thought i might. This was the first book on beauty I encountered that suggested to me that makeup can be used to express a feeling, a facet of yourself, an aspiration of who you wish to be in the moment. In a book that features 60 instructional watercolor sketches and step-by-step recipes for dozens of different looks, the world's most renowned makeup artist shares his makeup secrets with women everywhere.

I've kept it through several moves, including a period of my life where all my belongings were split between the three friend's houses I was couchsurfing on. Having created beautiful looks for Janet Jackson, Cher and Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevyn Aucoin is perfectly positioned to offer tips and let you in on some of his makeup artistry secrets. However, it's good to be reminded of the theory behind make-up application and it will certainly be of good use as a reference for make-up looks of a certain decade. He was a guest on many television programs, including Oprah, the Today show, Good Morning America, VH-I's Fashion Television, MTV's House of Style and Entertainment Tonight.Beautiful photographs, clear instructions and drawings, with makeup styles which are still fashionable today, you can read in detail, or just flick through, it is absorbing.

Beans, Jessie, Paul, and Grant are Ambrose’s best friends that died in war while serving alongside Ambrose. Third, it is easy to see this as art, and faces as canvases, and Aucoin as a skilled and generous artist.So many beauty resources aimed at trans women seek to assimilate us into a cisheteronormative view of beauty; we are enticed with the promise that we too, if we learn how to use blush, can ascend into unremarkability. Impressive, almost unbelievable imagery from one of Hollywood’s most talented Make Up artists of our time (RIP). Kevyn Aucoin shares his secrets, explaining not only the basics of make-up application and technique but also how to use those fundamentals to create a wide range of different looks. I'm not saying he had to go nuts with special effects makeup, but a bit more diversity in coloring would have been nice. This incredible book demonstrates the art of makeup with famous individuals made up to look like other celebrities with astonishing results.