The Triumph of Individual Style : A Guide to Dressing Your Body, Your Beauty, Your Self

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Summary: And for those learning to draw or paint....
Review: The book uses works of art - drawings, paintings, sculpture - to illustrate how various characteristics of face and figure can be emphasized or minimized, and describes the techniques artists themselves used to express the beauty and character of their subjects. The discussions of proportion and all the colors that are really there in hair, skin and eyes would not be at all out of place in an art class. You'll never look at bodies quite the same way again. Including your own.

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Summary: We are all beautiful
Review: This is a book that overcomes the present restrictive steroetypes that tell us we must be young, thin and symmetrical to be beautiful. We can all find our shape and colouring lovingly recreated by a great artist. In a time when so many women have learned to hate their bodies this wonderful book is a gift to us all.

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Summary: A Beautiful Book on Beauty!
Review: This is a lovely book (too bad it's out-of-stock) that allows for all forms of feminine beauty. It uses examples of fine art to demonstrate the artistic principles that govern the development of a person's unique visual presence. Most books want to form women's looks to a few current styles - this approach of taking a woman's individual body traits and playing them up or down with the elements of fine art will always result in a look that is timeless