Forget getting older gracefully--This is the beauty and style bible every woman has been waiting for!HOW NOT TO LOOK OLD is the first--ever cheat sheet of to-dos and fast fixes that pay-off big time--all from Charla and her friends, the best hair pros, makeup artists, designers, dermatologists, cosmetic dentists and personal shoppers in the biz. Packed with eye-opening details on hair color, brows, lipstick, wrinkle-erasers, jeans, shapewear, jewelry, heels, and more, the book speaks to every woman: from low maintenance types who don't want to spend a fortune or tons of time on her looks to high maintenance women who believe in looking fabulous at any price. There's also too-old vs. just-right before and after photos, celebrity examples of good and bad style, shopping lists of Charla's brilliant buys in fashion and beauty products, coveted addresses of "Where the top beauty pros go," fun sidebars--and more. Known to national audiences from her ten years on NBC's Today show, style expert Charla Krupp dishes out her secrets in this "ultimate" to-do list for looking hip and fabulous -- no matter what your age.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Very depressing...:
I'm really bothered that this is the type of book that women in their late 30's and up are looking to for advice. I ordered the book hoping that it would somehow be a 'big girls' book, but it's nothing more than the dozens of shallow women's magazines that I simply can't relate to either. Nothing is going to make me look 18 again and I refuse to waste my precious life trying to look younger. At this point in my life I feel that I have earned the right to wear the clothes that I like, not what some... more info
Attention Women: How Not to Look Old:
[...] Book Review: How Not to Look Old by Charla Krupp Seen on the New York Times BestSeller List is How Not To Look Old by Charla Krupp. Ms. Krupp has done more than a hundred style segments on the Today show. She also has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Dateline NBC, and Good Morning America, and she's been a regular on The E! channel and the Home Shopping Network. The former executive editor of Shop Etc. magazine, Charla was the beauty director at Glamour, senior editor at... more info
Interesting but incomplete:
I enjoyed reading the book - it has some great ideas, but you really should use your own judgment and apply only those suggestions which you know will work for you.
What surprised me about the book, though, was what advice it was missing - weight control and posture. If you are overweight or underweight, you will automatically look a few years older than your age. And lousy posture will definitely age you. As we get older, our posture naturally sags (from sitting at a desk, from bad habits, from... more info
WARNINGS About This Book:
Basically, there's a lot of good information in this book. The author covers just about everything I was looking for, from jean color to heel height to haircolor and nail length. And yes, as others have said, there are so many specific product, brand, store, and website suggestions, this book sometimes seems like one big ad. But . . . the author is right more often than not. I checked around and kept coming back to her suggestions. WARNINGS: First, if you're fifty or older, you're going to... more info
