Making Faces

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very useful for beginners, but people that have loved doing makeup on themselves for a while will also find a few useful tips and tricks. What was REALLY great about this book is the expansive amount of celebrity photos that Kevyn used, everyone from Vanessa Williams, to Drew Barrymore, to Demi Moore. He REALLY surprised the reader about what can be accomplished with the correct and playful application of makeup.

I will insist other people read it so they can tell me what it says and how we could all learn from it.From everyday and glamorous looks Kevyn Aucoin did on his friends, to the iconic looks of the 20th century: the Bombshell (Marilyn Monroe), the Flapper (Josephine Baker), the Gamine (Audrey Hepburn). 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'm not saying he had to go nuts with special effects makeup, but a bit more diversity in coloring would have been nice. When Rita liked Ambrose, Fern was the one writing back and forth with Ambrose and signing rita's name.

Also, a BIG plus, is that Kevyn was not afraid to use women of all colors, black white, asian, whatever. 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.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. The typical bombshell looks would have been more memorable and groundbreaking if Kevin used untypical and diverse models instead of simply sticking a blonde wig on a white model and recreating the spitting image of Marilyn Monroe. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Beans, Jessie, Paul, and Grant are Ambrose’s best friends that died in war while serving alongside Ambrose.