BEAUTÉ MADE SIMPLE A Make-Up Guide By Robert Jones Written with Patricia Young Publisher: Simple Beauté Price: $29.95/hardcover ISBN: 0-9717241-0-5 "A great beauty book" -- The Toledo Blade "Fashionable reading" -- Arkansas Democrat Gazette "Nuts and bolts advice" -- The Commercial Appeal HIGHLY PRAISED BOOK BY LEADING MAKEUP ARTIST REVEALS STEP-BY-STEP TECHNIQUES FOR MAKING BEAUTY SIMPLE Hundreds of Color Photographs of Women of All Ages and Ethnicities Demonstrate Easy-to-Follow Techniques Seeing is believing, and in his fully illustrated book, BEAUTÉ MADE SIMPLE: A Make-Up Guide, leading make-up artist Robert Jones shows how it is possible to bring out the true beauty of any woman. This stunning photographic guide offers step-by-step instructions and before-and-after photographs, enabling any woman to identify and enhance her best features. With a star-studded client list, including Sheryl Crow, Diahann Carroll, and the Dixie Chicks, Jones has developed easy-to-follow makeup methods that all women can use. In BEAUTÉ MADE SIMPLE, he shares his secrets for applying makeup to create beautiful faces, motivating every woman to be her own gorgeous self. The book features photographs of sixty women ranging in age from the teens to the late sixties, and representing a wide range of ethnic diversity. Through before-and-after pictures and simple charts and graphs, Jones demonstrates the most effective ways to apply cosmetics for optimum effect on every face-, eye- and brow-shape. "Some women think that makeup is far too difficult to master, but it's simple when you break it down. It's merely a matter of using the right products, good tools, and the correct techniques," says Jones. BEAUTÉ MADE SIMPLE makes it easy for women to select just the right products, even when faced with the potentially confounding array of choices available. For example, Jones describes the eight different kinds of foundation - from stick to liquid and from mousse to powder compact - explaining when and how each should be used. He also lays out other fundamentals - such as the three mascara formulas and four basic mascara brush shapes, four different blush textures, and the variety of lipstick formulations - suggesting why a woman should choose one over the other, depending on skin tone, face shape, and desired effect. BEAUTÉ MADE SIMPLE offers helpful guidelines for dozens of makeup challenges, including: Determining what make-up hues are most appropriate for different skin tones and eye colors. Recognizing what one's face shape is and how that should affect one's choice of make-up techniques. For example, he suggests that women with round faces avoid wearing blush only on the apples of the cheeks, and that women with heart-shaped faces highlight their chins. Using foundation and powder to sculpt a fuller face so that it appears slimmer. Applying eye make-up to change the appearance of eyes that are small, wide-set, close-set, droopy, or hooded. Improving skin appearance by using concealer to minimize or even eliminate dark circles, scars, other discoloration, or under-eye puffiness. "Every woman is beautiful," writes Jones. "It doesn't matter if you are short or tall, heavy or thin, or if your features aren't those of a fashion model or famous actress. Your beauty comes from self-awareness, self-confidence, and your own magnetic personality." In BEAUTÉ MADE SIMPLE, he explains how any woman can learn to bring out her own beauty. # # # ABOUT THE AUTHOR ROBERT JONES is president of Simple Beauté. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, he is a well-known hair and makeup artist with almost twenty years of experience in his field, both nationally and internationally. His clients include Neiman Marcus, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Watters and Watters, The Johnson, Levi's, MCI, Marie Claire, Elle Magazine, Delta Burke, Diahann Carroll, Sheryl Crow, Carol Channing, Louise Mandrell, The Dixie Chicks, and others. BEAUTÉ MADE SIMPLE is also available on video and DVD. Please visit www.beautemadesimple.com for more information.
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