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Summary: the best book to look at for a hair style!
Review: As others have said, there are not a lot of directions in this book. We would all love to have hairstyles like these women. But we're certainly not likely to get it following instructions like: "Roll the hair up on curlers but do not comb out; then fasten the locks with side combs or clips" unless we know quite a bit already about what curler size to use, and how and where to fasten those locks. Honestly, these are the complete directions (and typical in their brevity) for a lovely hairstyle a la Julianna Margulies. There are short chapters that fill in some of this information, but this book would be most helpful either to take with you to your stylist, or to simply inspire you to play with your own hair. It was originally published in German under the rather wordy title "388 Frisurne fur jede Lange, fur jeden Typ, for jede Gelengenheit" (388 Hairstyles For Every Length, For Every Type and For Every Occasion)--and the young models are exclusively of Northern European lineage. There is no model over 40. I doubt there are any over 20!, so don't expect help for mature styles. There are none of Asian, African, Middle Eastern, or even Southern European descent, so no advice on ethnic styling. And the styles chosen are uniformly feminine, classic and conservative--no punk shavings and no consideration of superglue as a styling accessory. If, however, this sounds like your fashion ideal and you want a book to take to your stylist, get this one...the only thing is that most stylists already have their own books like this...
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Summary: This is a Picture Book, but they are good pictures
Review: I can understand that people would be upset that this book does not have instructions for the styles. The editorial review does lead people to believe that this book explains things. It really doesn't explain anything. Then again most magazines don't explain styles either. This book is meant for choosing a style. If you are using this book for that purpose then its a great book. This would be a great book for salons to have in their lobby.
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Summary: Pretty Good Book!
Review: I generally enjoyed this book, and I do think that it is a good reference for people looking to change the way their hair is styled. However...Note to Potentially Dissatisfied Customers: This book is NOT a book that tells you how to braid your hair or put it up. It is a book that gives you ideas on ways to cut your hair or restyle it at the length that it already is. If you are looking to find ways of putting your hair up, I recommend "Hair" by Anne Akers Johnson instead of this book.
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Summary: Shipping
Review: I ordered this book on Feb 10th, today is March 01st and the book didn't arrive yet. I sent several email but no answer. Its a bud deal this store.
Marco Kakehashi
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Summary: Lovely photos, but where's the instruction?
Review: I recently purchased this book. While the photos and the choices of styles shown are lovely, I find there are little to no instructions on how to acheive these looks. It does not have things that would be helpful to the nouveau stylist such as step by step diagrams or styles-in-progress photography available for you to be able to check your work as you go. Adding these things as an appendix, even, would have been most helpful. Thank you, Robin Rogers-Kostel Hesperia, CA
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Summary: Surely not the best!
Review: The book description for this book makes it sound like it has instructions for styles for all types of hair. And it does, except I thought "styles" meant things like buns, braids and updos. The "styles" in this book are things like, "Blow-dry the hair, than use styling gel to hold it in place." Not very informative! This book has a nice layout, for short-medium-long hair, with a curly hair section at the end of each length of hair section. Overall, if you are into blow-drying your hair instead of braiding it or something of that sort, than it is a pretty good book.
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Summary: Surely not the best!
Review: The book description for this book makes it sound like it has instructions for styles for all types of hair. And it does, except I thought "styles" meant things like buns, braids and updos. The "styles" in this book are things like, "Blow-dry the hair, than use styling gel to hold it in place." Not very informative! This book has a nice layout, for short-medium-long hair, with a curly hair section at the end of each length of hair section. Overall, if you are into blow-drying your hair instead of braiding it or something of that sort, than it is a pretty good book.
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Summary: a little old-fashioned
Review: the possibilities the book provided were nice, but at most i'd say this is a book to use for "inspiration." The styles were all a bit outdated and thereby not so useful, especially for the younger crowd.
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Summary: Very 'eighties'!
Review: This book gives lots of styling ideas but be aware that many of the styles (and photographs)are definitely dated and hark back to the eighties! That said, the best part of this book is that it gives the sense that one hairstyle can still provide many possibilities for having different looks for different occasions.
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Summary: In the mane it is ok...
Review: This book has plenty of pictures and quite a variety of styles for short, medium and long hair. However, the descriptions on how to achieve the look are cryptic and one must learn basically through trial and error.
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