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Summary: REAL Beauty
Review: As a girl who's just beginning to wear makeup, this book was extremly helpful in many ways. sonia showed how you can use makeup to enhance your face, not hide it.She made make up sound fun and easy to do. she showed you how to achiveve differnt looks and styles w/h changing all your products. it was real neat to see models before they had makeup on, and realize that they are just normal people. although she repeats sherself alot, this book was fun,creative,and helpful
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Summary: It really is a real beauty...
Review: I love this book! I checked it out of the library to see if I wanted to buy it and I'm completely sold... The photos are gorgeous, the book is informative and the dvd is awesome.Alot of people are complaining about the book not explaining everything step-by-step, but that's what the dvd is for. It's sometimes hard to read instructions or to look at a photo and see if you're doing it right. If you watch the different sections after reading each chapter, you can watch exactly how she does everything. The book goes in depth, contains all the information, has step by step instructions (just not photos for them), lists all the supplies and even explains how beauty is not just skin deep. Apart from the makeup and nail sections, there are sections on skin care, teeth, eating healthy, fitness and just caring for yourself in general. The dvd shows you how to put all your new found knowlege to use. I especially loved the concealer part... I realized that models have blemishes, too. It's just that they can find a makeup artist to make them 'disappear'! I'm definitely going to buy this set and another one for my sister. I'd recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Best Makeup How To Book, Ever!
Review: I recently bought Bobbi Brown's book "Beauty Evolution". It's fine but not exceptional. But, Sonia Kashuk's "Real Beauty" IS
EXCEPTIONAL! I had the chance to view it at Borders and I could kick myself for not buying this before. I love the idea of the bonus DVD (you get to see real application which is so essential). No matter how detailed a book is, it's easier to learn the steps from a video. The advice is for real life women to look like themselves but better. I'm ordering this today and hope many of you will also.
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Summary: Super Rave for this book and instructional DVD
Review: I was totally surprised about the DVD I found in the back of this book. I was just expecting a book. I love the new book "Real Beauty", she seems to kinda repeats herself alot though. But the DVD is awesome. It shows you some really nice eye looks and she really goes into detail and goes over and over so that you really can master what you are trying to acheive. She goes step by step on how to appy foundation, concealer, powder, lipstick & gloss, blush (both cream and powder) and of course eyes. You get to see Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington without makeup. You get to see that models are not perfect like we all think. Highly Recommend
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Summary: Inspiring and informative!
Review: I'm a 34 year old mother of two. (2yrs and a 7month old) I really felt like I let myself go, and couldn't drag myself out of the hole! I bought this book after trying a few of her products (which are fabulous, btw!) and was so impressed with it. It's been so much fun playing in make up again. She emphasises working with what you have, not trying to mask your inner beauty. I especially love the dvd. I had trouble trying to recreate the looks shown in the book, but once I watched the dvd, I figured it out. I can easily change my "look" and I look great! My husband even commented on it, (I haven't told him about the book, I was waiting to see if he noticed.) and when your husband stops to tell you how great you look at 7am, you know that you finally figured it out! This book truly makes me feel good about myself again, I'm not just a mom, I'm pretty too.
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Summary: Inspiring and informative!
Review: I'm the mom to 3 (4,3, and 6 mos.) and had let myself go, was discouraged about my appearance. I really wanted to turn myself around, in health, weight and appearance. My hubby decreed 2004 the "year of mommy's makeover" and made this one of my Xmas presents (he found it himself). I was a bit skeptical, but once I read it, I was hooked. While I've worn makeup on and off for years, I learned a lot. The chapter on foundation, concealer and powder was worth the book - I finally have a clue how to use concealer properly! Also loved the chapter on eyes and learned how to use eyeliner in a natural way. She has a lot of little tricks of the trade that help when applying makeup (and now seem obvious after reading them!). I'm having a lot of fun playing and trying different products. I also loved the section with the magazine editors - it was great to hear from beauty experts who look at gorgeous women all day. Their views were really neat. I love her attitude about what beauty is, because I feel the same way. It's great to know you don't need to wear 50 products and spend two hours a day to look good. I don't want to be a supermodel, I just want to look more polished and feel better about me, and this book was a great help.
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Summary: Excellent book and video combination!!!
Review: This book is a totally refreshing approach to makeup. In the style of Bobbi Brown, Sonia Kashuk encourages women to feel beautiful no matter what they look like. Her approach to makeup is natural, but does give you a few tricks on achieving certain looks (i.e. the smoky eye). She also is a little bit more relaxed regarding "makeup rules". Amazingly enough, the best part of the book is the video! I have bought many books on makeup (Bobbi Brown, Kevyn Aucoin, Linda Mason) and I have never learned so many new and completely natural tricks and techniques than from Sonia's video, it is amazing!!! I truly reccomend this book if you want to learn how to look perfect but not "made up".
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Summary: stop looking- you found the how to make-up book!
Review: This book is written by Sonia on how great Sonia is. If you are looking for a step by step instruction on how to do your makeup...this is not the book for you.
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