Good beauty advice is hard to come by these days. Women are
constantly inundated with products that promise to remove wrinkles,
reduce puffiness, highlight cheekbones, hide blemishes, and make
them look younger, healthier, tanner, and even thinner-but do these
products really work? Are they worth the time, money, and effort?
Carmindy, makeup artist on TLC's popular show What Not to Wear,
believes that the secret to a great look is to focus on the
positive: learn how to enhance your best natural features with
sheer washes of color rather than hide under layers of
artificial-looking makeup. In The 5-Minute Face, Carmindy shares
her beauty philosophy, offering a practical, easy, and
always-successful makeup routine that works for all ages and skin
types.
The steps for achieving the five-minute face-from smoothing on
foundation, to slicking on lip color-are simple. But as Carmindy
demonstrates, many women don't know which product is right for
their skin tones, or are clueless on how to apply makeup for
optimal results. Throughout every chapter, she provides valuable
advice on perfecting the makeup technique that is right for your
face, including product tips and accompanying "toolbox" sections
that describe which tools to use with each type of makeup.
No matter what your age is, or whether you have porcelain skin
or rosacea, Carmindy will help you look fabulous. In addition to
the 5-minute makeover, she discusses:
•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, from teens to women fifty and
over.
•Beauty Comes in All Colors: Freckles? Blemishes? Carmindy solves
the problems that make finding the perfect makeup for your skin
tone difficult. Also includes tips on lash dying for those fair
lashes, and lash perming for those who want permanently curled
lashes.
•The 10-Minute Face: Carmindy shows how to build on the 5-minute
face for special occasions. Everything from sexy dates-looking
right in all white at your wedding-to the perfect look for a job
interview.
Accompanied throughout by Palma Kolansky's beautiful
photography, The 5-Minute Face is every woman's guide to enhancing
their unique and beautiful features with the perfect makeup
routine.