I have only one makeup book, Making Faces by KA.
I want to get some more but there are so many, what should I look into ?
TIA
Violet

Anything by Kevyn Aucoin! I see you already have "Making Faces". How about "Face First" or "The Art of Makeup"? He's awesome and his work is outstanding; great for ideas and step-by-step application.

I used to have a whole list of them but I seemed to have lost it. I know Revlon made an excellent book, and Bobbi Brown too. I guess it really depends what you're using it for.

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If you're interested in the history of makeup, here is my bibliography for a paper I wrote last semester.

Angeloglou, Maggie. A History of Make-Up. The Macmillan
Company: London, 1974.

Aucoin, Kevyn. Making Faces. Little, Brown and Company: Boston,
1999

Baygan, Lee. Makeup For Theatre, Film & Television: A Step by Step
Photographic Guide. Drama Book Publishers: New York, 1989.

Brydon, Anne. Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational
Body. Berg: New York, 1998.

Corson, Richard. Stage Makeup 9th Edition. Allyn & Bacon: Boston
2000.

Cosron, Richard. Fashions in Hair. Peter Owen: London, 2000.

Craik, Jennifer. The Face of Fashion: Cultural Studies in Fashion.
Routledge: London, 1994.

De Castelbajac, Kate. The Face of the Century: 100 Years of Make-up and Style. Thames and Hudson Ltd: London, 1995.

Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Janice. Am I Thin Enough Yet?: The Cult of
Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity. Oxford University Press: New York, 1996.

Jackson, Carole. Color Me Beautiful: Discover Your Natural Beauty
Through the Colors that Make You Look Great & Feel Fabulous!. Acropolis Books: Washington, 1980.

Kay, Gwen. Dying to Be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics.
Ohio State University Press: Columbus, 2005.

Lewis, Grace Ross. 1001 Chemicals in Everyday Products. Wiley:
New York, 1999.

Lord, M. G. Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real
Doll. Morrow and Co.: New York, 1994.

Manniche, Lise. Sacred Luxuries: Fragrance, Aromatherapy &
Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, 1999.

Peiss, Kathy Lee. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty
Culture. Metropolitan Books: New York, 1998.

Quart, Alissa. Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.
Perseus Pub.: Cambridge, 2003.

Riordan, Teresa. Inventing Beauty: A History of the Innovations that
Have Made Us Beautiful. Broadway: Portland, 2004.

Rogers, Mary. Barbie Culture. SAGE Publications: London, 1999.

I warmly recommend you the "Bobbi Brown Beauty" book, it is a staple in my makeup book collection! It's a 240 p. book full of useful tips & tricks, details on the skin & body basics, etc... It's a good reference book that you can keep going back to, I bought it 4 years ago and I'm re-reading it at the moment

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I have a slide on my MySpace page with the greatest make-up books, IMHO. These books are a great educational tool! I have learned and still learn so much from these publications.

Scroll down a bit, it's on the left. Hover over thumbs for titles & authors.

My Page here.

or here's a link to the slide.

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Wow, that's a list!! I'm going to check in my local bookstore if I can find some of them (it's going to be a real quest, as finding these books in France is often Mission Impossible), the ones about women of colour look great!
BTW, I just send you a friend request on Myspace.

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Beauty Made Simple by Robert Jones is a really good book,.. the before and afters are simply amazing,. his resume includes Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks and more,.. Man is like $1500 and up an hour. I got to go to a seminar of his.

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"Random thought: I want a toaster that toasts the MAC logo onto my bread. It may only be psychological but it would make my toast taste so much better."

Hey sorry to bump this thread up back from the dead but I was curious if anybody had recommendations on makeup photo books or magazines with like high fashion/editorial looks? I own several makeup application books (Bobbi Brown, Kevyn Aucoin) but I was looking for some "inspirational" looks if that makes any sense TIA!

Bobbi Brown released a few books on make up. I own one of them and it's called Bobbi Brown Beauty.

Amazon.com: Bobbi Brown Beauty: Books: Bobbi Brown

I love it, it explains everything from skin care to doing your eyebrows.

It's a good resource for beginners because it explains what foundation, powder and concealers are and what formula to get for every type of skin tone. It also has a step by step how to apply make up on.
I really like it

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Paula Begoun just released an updated version of Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter.....book. It's pretty good.

Makeup Your Mind by Francois Nars

All the Kevyn Aucoin books

Asian Faces is a very good step by step color guide (Bababian)

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Don't go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me 7th Edition, by Paula Begoun is a GREAT book, she shares a review on over 240 cosmetic lines (makeup & skin care), including drugstore and professional. It rates most of the cosmetic line's products with a happy face, neutral face, or sad face. It's a really helpful book, especially for makeup newbies who don't know which cosmetic line to buy from for a certain product. It basically tells what's good and bad about the product

Oh, haha I didn't see that the person above already recommended it

Thanks for these book recommendations! Definitely going to check these books out at my local Borders (if they have them).

I have Kevyn Aucoin's making faces and i LOVE it! There are very detailed drawings and it is really helpful.

I'm looking for make-up books as well....

I'm not really a beginner, so I'm not really interested in make-up boosk explaining how to use foundation and where to place your eyeliner....
My main interest is to create really heavy make-ups, fashion make-ups, special effect make-up, goth make-up and so on...

I'm thinking about buying Richard Corsons Stage Make-up but since it is very expensive, Im hesitating a bit (couldn't find it in the library or the