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Carmindy, the makeup artist on TLC's popular show What Not to Wear, believes that the secret to a great look is to enhance your best natural features with sheer washes of color, not to hide under layers of artificial-looking makeup. In The 5-Minute Faceānow with an all-new updated Shopping GuideāCarmindy shares her positive beauty philosophy. She offers a practical, easy, fast, and mistake-proof makeup routine that works for all ages and skin types.
Each chapter contains valuable advice on perfecting the makeup technique that's right for your faceāand includes product tips and ātoolboxā sections describing the best implements to use with each type of makeup. And there's more:
- 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 at any age.
- Beauty Comes in All Colors: Freckles? Blemishes? Carmindy helps you find the perfect makeup for your special skin tone.
- The 10-Minute Face: Carmindy shows how to build on the 5-Minute Face for special occasions.
With beautiful photographs by Palma Kolansky, The 5-Minute Face is every woman's guide to enhancing her unique and beautiful features.
Customer Reviews
Not Quite Everybody
As long as you are below 50, this is OK. She has a section on the Fifties, but it is short and not comparable to the other age cohorts. She also lists 2 products for each group which will do the job. The expensive one ($$$) varies. The much less expensive one ($) is her own product whenever possible.
If you are 50 or older I strongly recommend The Best of Everything After 50. Outstanding and she gives you a range of products from $ to, rarely, Are You Kidding Me ($$$ at least)?
Please don't jump me. After all my screen name is Oldie Reader. I may be old, I am not dead yet.
2010-05-21
(San Angelo, TX United States) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 2
Look fabulous in 5 minutes!
When it comes to makeup, women want products and techniques that are going to make them look and feel fabulous. Taking an hour in the bathroom to achieve all this fabulousity however, is not an option.
Makeup artist Carmindy, famous for her work on the show What Not to Wear, understands this and has written a book called The 5 Minute Face. Like the title suggests, she demonstrates quick and easy makeup techniques that even the most time pressed woman can use to look pretty and polished in five minutes. Once you have mastered the basic five minute face you can spend a few more minutes trying on some of her other makeup looks, like the slightly more dramatic but still very wearable Holiday face.
In addition to demonstrating the five minute face application techniques she covers a variety of other beauty topics. She discusses everything from shaping your brows to finding the right foundation, makeup as it applies to different age groups and more. All of this insider advice is accompanied by many beautiful photographs.
Of course the thing that really endeared me to this book was the part at the back where she lists both expensive and cheap beauty products for skin care as well as cosmetics.
Stephanie Ann, Author
THE CHEAP DIVA'S GUIDE TO FRUGAL AND FABULOUS LIVING: How to Shop Smart, Look Your Best, Decorate with Style, and Have Fun for Less Money!
2010-04-29
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4
boring
Her looks are very boring and minimal. I think that anyone is capable of mastering the natural makeup look, which doesn't make Carmindy stand out at all from the Makeup World. She likes to emphasize about highlighting the face like it is a must.
She likes to use flawless models to cut corners because she would have NO IDEA how to take an average person and turn that person in to a gorgeous women, but NOT necessarily caking them in makeup. (This is what Kevyn Aucoin can do!)
So the reason why she takes flawless models is that she thinks they are easy to work with, since they are already GORGEOUS to begin with. Carmindy, this does not make you a talented makeup artist.
Get Kevyn Aucoin's Making Faces instead. You'll easily find inspiration from his book. I love Mr. Aucoin's book - His natural to dramatic looks are glamorous.
2010-04-17
(California, USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 1
Excellent guide
This book is excellent.
Some of the stuff I already knew but others I didn't.
I especially liked the product listings at the back.
2010-03-31
| I W (Caribbean) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
Get this book!
These recipes are so tasty! I've always considered myself more of a baker because I couldn't prepare a good dinner at all. Unlike other cookbooks, Pioneer woman makes it so easy by showing you step by step how to cook and prepare everything.. Great for beginners! Also lovely photographs and HUMOR! Get this book!
2010-02-21
| Zombie (The Beach, California) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 5
"face to face" with the customer providing personalized consultations and teaching women how to have a "Flawless Face". We had a strong point of difference
