Makeup Your Mind deftly combines cult favorite cosmetics designer Francois Nars' two remarkable talents - makeup and photography, both of which he uses in this collection to stunning effect - to show women how to enhance their natural beauty. Designed by renowned graphic artist FAbien Baron to be the ultimate makeup how-to book, Makeup Your Mind is a comprehensive compilation of Before and After photographs, each containing instructional acetate overlays, covering almost every face type, complexion, eye color, and facial feature found on the runway today. Makeup Your Mind is also a revolutionary instruction manual on makeup from one of the most respected and imitated cosmetics artists in fashion today: a makeup book designed and constructed as a durable paperback companion suitable for the vanity or for the car, sliding in and out of its attractive hardcover binder as needed, containing precise instructional guides on clear plastic overlays indicating exactly what goes where, allowing you to see the finished effect for perfect results. Summarizing each chapter on Eyes, Lips, Neutrals, Shimmer, Monochrome and Suntan, Pastels, Color, and Skincare are Francois Nars' trademarked guidelines on the technique of applying makeup for that dazzling NARS look. Showcasing the famous NARS look are today's top models, including Karen Elson, Maggie Rizer, Naomi Campbell, Devon Aoki, Trish Goff, Erin O'Connor, Sophie Dahl, May Anderson, Ling, Aurelie, Missy Rayder, Elsa, Caroline Ribero, Eva Herzagova, and many others. Makeup Your Mind features these women and more in 63 stunning Before and After pictures. All of the models were shot sans makeup for the Before pictures, displaying their bare-naked faces replete with imperfections and idiosyncrasies. Their transformations in the After pictures span from natural and elegant to fun and outrageous. In superb four-color photographs and brilliant acetate instructional guides, Makeup Your Mind demonstrates how makeup can minimize flaws and maximize beauty potential for every woman.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Great for makeup artists:
I found this book fantastic the way it mentions which colours are used and where. Especially since its not all high fashion and has plenty of looks to show clients when they are deciding what style they would like
Another Very Good makeup book.:
This is a basic book for anybody who is interested in makeup, nice presentation, easy to follow and whith many examples to copy and practise. It's a Must in your makeup bookshelf.
This book was very entertaining, and not in a positive way:
Francois Nars gives some great advice in the text of the book. This type of advice is good for someone who is new to wearing makeup or the every day woman who doesn't know much about makeup artistry. For professional artists, this is already common knowledge. I do find some amusing contradictions however. For example, when he stresses the importance of sun health, wearing sunscreen and keeping the skin healthy yet many of the models have prominent sun damage on their faces. I also found 99 percent of... more info
Makeup Your Mind with experiments in color:
I enjoyed this artistic, inspiring book. It is descriptive & informative with perfect before- after make-up photos with clear where-to-apply transparent pages+ all the nars products used are shown/referred clearly in case you want to buy any of them. My personal gain was that it urged me to be more experimental in make-up after a long-period of conservatism. Yes, the other reviewers are right, most of the examples are rather dramatic: not including the colors you can use in the office or even at... more info
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