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Yes, dahling, you can be as beautiful as today's top supermodels with the hundreds of beauty tips awaiting discovery in Beauty Secrets For Dummies. Hailed as "...the ultimate manual on beauty and skin care" by Sarah, The Duchess of York, this friendly, plain-speaking reference book guides you along the way, whether you're looking for touch-up secrets and solutions or an entire makeover.Beauty Secrets For Dummies covers everything you need to know: skin basics and beyond; hair care, coloring, processing, and styling; finding, selecting, and applying the right makeup; and supermodel Stephanie Seymour's own tried-and-true home spa regimen. Plus, check out her tips for ways to vary your makeup look, and verse yourself in more than 100 beauty terms and a special section on beauty resources (from corner drugstores to beauty-related Web sites) along with a 16-page, full-color Makeup Workbook. This is a beauty book like no other! ... Read more

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stephanie seymour's beauty secrets for dummies
This book is amazing. It has everything you need to know. hair, makeup, and skin. This book is terrific and fantastic. I could not live without it.

Fantastic reference
A fantastic reference, even for makeup mavens!Packed with information and tips, it really is a pleasure to read.The illustrations of different brow, eye and lip shapes and how to make them up are very helpful, as are the Q&As that everyone wonders about, and the sections of suggestions according to your age (eg teens...50s etc).Positives and negatives of different formulations are also succinctly detailed (eg different types of eyeliner).Stephanie also includes a "Home Spa" chapter which is fun and personal.She refers to experts' advice as well, like Patricia Wexler in some of the skincare tips.This book covers heaps of bases and manages to give beauty "novices" a great start as well as keep up the interest of beauty addicts.It's definitely one you'll find yourself dipping into regularly!

Good book for basics of general beauty from hair to makeup
While I do have a hard time picturing Stephanie Seymour sitting down and writing all of this out, Beauty Secrets for Dummies is an excellent guide nonetheless. The skincare chapters are the weakest sections; most people have skintypes that don't fall neatly into one of the few categories listed in the book, and the information on skincare products just skims the surface.

The chapters on hair are good at covering the basics, and the tips on coloring/processing will be useful for anyone wanting to do at-home coloring. The step-by-step hairstyling instructions mostly apply only to those with longer hair. One helpful aspect of this book, used in every section, is the suggestions given for different age groups, from teens to women in their fifties and beyond.

The cosmetics section is by far the most in-depth, with plenty of information on product types and application tips for just about every situation. The color section on how to get different 'looks' is interesting, but it would be easier for women to duplicate the looks if the makeup used was a more readily available, more inexpensive brand than Nars. The chapter on brows is excellent. The only thing lacking is the absence of any solid advice on choosing the correct colors for your skintone.

This book would be great for women of any age, though it might be especially helpful for teens or anyone else just getting into beauty regimens. It has a light tone and an 'everyone can look pretty' attitude that is encouraging.

You'll refer to this over and over
This book works well for several reasons : 1) The language Ms.Seymour ( or her editors) use(s) iscolloquial and non-intimidating . It is a pleasure to read . 2) The " Dummies" format lends itself wellto a book on beauty . After all, who wants a beauty manual filled with theauthor's own anecdotes and boring stories ? The " Dummies" bookseries is known for getting to the " meat" of the topic , andthis one is no exception ." Beauty Secrets For Dummies" willgive you some great tips if you are a beginner, but it is also very helpfulfor organizing and streamlining your daily routine ( you'll probably have alist of products to buy and new techniques by the end of your first read) .It offers a substantial source of information on everything from basic skincare, cosmetic surgery , and makeup techniques . Trust me, you'll findsomething useful in here no matter what you are interested in and how manyother " beauty" manuals you've read before .This is definitelyone of my favorite books on the topic.

Lacking in credibility.
My guess is that a ghost writer paid these so-called authors for use of their high profile names. It's difficult to believe that the class-conscious Duchess of York and supermodel Stephanie Seymour frequentdrugstore cosmetics counters or play with their camera-ready faces at home.European-trained aestheticians, premium skincare products and high-enddermatologists are closer to the truth. ... Read more

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In this, the last book in a trilogy begun with "Go-Sees" and continued with "Tracht", Juergen Teller concludes his examination of contemporary society's preconceived notions of beauty. "MORE", a collaboration with supermodel Stephanie Seymour, is a collection of intimate portraits shot over the last two-and-a-half years at Seymour's homes in Connecticut, New York, and Miami Beach. Through such unsettling images as close-ups of Seymour's lips and a depiction of her poised precariously on Jeff Koon's enormous "Puppy," Teller's trademark candor brings us closer to the inconsistencies that mark the life of this beauty icon.I like to leave things to chance. If everything is planned just so then it becomes tedious for me and the models. It is all about instinct, smell and feeling. --Juergen Teller

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18 color, 7 duotone illustrations ... Read more

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MORE is less than I expected
I like the IDEA of this book but I found the end result to be less than breathtaking. Certainly there are a few (very few) spectacular pictures, but there are also a lot of very mundane ones. The photographer, Teller, seems to like the effect of a flashbulb bouncing of his subject's face creating glare and eliminating detail (most people would just say the pictures were overlit). There is no text in the book, just pictures; not the text is really required, but it's one more thing that you aren't getting for your money. Had the book been a lot cheaper I wouldn't be complaining, but overall I get the impression that this ... book was slapped together in just a few days. ... Read more

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Sports Ilustrated Swimsuit Model Stephanie Seymour Takes off her Swimsuit plus inside the Jose Menendez Murder Case and more... ... Read more

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