Making Faces

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very useful for beginners, but people that have loved doing makeup on themselves for a while will also find a few useful tips and tricks. So many beauty resources aimed at trans women seek to assimilate us into a cisheteronormative view of beauty; we are enticed with the promise that we too, if we learn how to use blush, can ascend into unremarkability.

This book is great for beginners who want to get a brief but informative look into the makeup industry. The second part includes detailed and illustrated step-by-step guides on how to achieve dozens of different make-up looks. Despite all this, the actual content and tips provided me with no new knowledge, being a make-up lover and fervent viewer of many YouTube make-up artists. i’ve ‘read’ this from cover-to-cover but have yet to practice the techniques generously detailed in the book (it’s the first makeup book to really show contouring to the public, though drag queens had already been way ahead of all of us during this time).It features step-by-step directions, instructional full-colour sketches, and a gallery of non-celebrity transformations.

e. some of the models are clearly wearing white eyeliner, blusher and mascara on their lower eyelashes yet this is omitted from the makeup instructions. Beautiful photographs, clear instructions and drawings, with makeup styles which are still fashionable today, you can read in detail, or just flick through, it is absorbing. Ich brachte mir das Schminken mit diesem Buch vor Jahrzehnten selbst bei, jetzt ist es für mich ein ansprechendes Nachschlagewerk. Impressive, almost unbelievable imagery from one of Hollywood’s most talented Make Up artists of our time (RIP).On the other hand, it is good to know that people can explore their creativity with makeup and bridge the gap of being someone other than themselves. Still, I feel some concepts were a little dated such as using the exoticness of Asian women as a makeup look and picking a white model to illustrate this beauty.