Makeup Your Mind

I enjoyed this artistic, inspiring book. It is descriptive & informative with perfect before- after make-up photos with clear where-to-apply transparent pages+ all the nars products used are shown/referred clearly in case you want to buy any of them. My personal gain was that it urged me to be more experimental in make-up after a long-period of conservatism. Yes, the other reviewers are right, most of the examples are rather dramatic: not including the colors you can use in the office or even at night. But then not all the colors are the same on every face so you can always use the diagrams and play with the colors until you find something that makes you feel more beautiful.

This book is great for the beginner and the expert. I like that Mr. Nars tells you the Nars color and the general color you can use in place of a Nars product. Some people commented the looks in the book are not street ready. I think many of the looks are. Nars is giving you a guide, and you choose colors that flatter your skin tone. Some of these are looks he created for runways and advertising, but adjust them to fit yourself. I'm not crazy about the plastic cover it comes with. That cover is too flimsy when not on the book. It should have been thicker or harder to match the book. This book is great for men and women that are interested in make-up application or art.

This book is definitely worth reading for those interested in makeup. However, many complaints stated by others are valid, such as the light, small type, in block paragraphs on white paper, is hard to read. The "before" photos can be a little disturbing because they are nearly life-size, and despite the statement that they haven't been retouched, there are no blood vessels visible in ANY of the models' eyes, making them look oddly lifeless (this effect is compounded by their flat expressions). No doubt that reminds some readers of "The Stepford Wives." Many of the models are extremely freckled - I wonder if that is representative of the human population to the degree you see it in this book. It does appear that the models' skin and facial features haven't been altered; after looking at them for awhile, I came away thinking, "THESE people aren't pretty enough to be models!" It made me start to think NO ONE is really beautiful - we're just being conned by the "beauty industry," Hollywood, advertising, etc. Also, the models' names aren't labeled on their photos. The text does have some useful tips and information, and there are short descriptions for application of the products for each of the looks in the back of each section. The most useful sections to me were the ones on neutrals and pastels. All of the other looks would have to be modified for use in the real world. I found one flaw in the book - one of the plastic overlays was clearly the wrong one for the page. The instructions at the back of the section made it possible to deal with that, so it wasn't a significant problem. Also, the slipcase is very thin and fragile; mine was already cracked when it arrived. No wonder used copies of this never seem to have a slipcase.

The idea of the overlays is great - it allows you to see the makeup completely finished without the distraction of the writing and then able to add that information of where to place the colors. I like the honesty in using the same light/background/hairstyle in the before and after pictures without any retouching - it is more truthful than many other books (believe me, I have many).I didn't give it 5 stars for the following reason (some I will admit are personal preference):1. Not enough variations in skin tone color - as in not enough olive toned and bronzed toned women. It was concentrated on either extremely pale or very dark with the majority being very pale.2. A large section of the makeup is more suitable for runway - I don't see them being realistic for real life.

I bought this because I'm a photographer, not a makeup artist. But I wanted a resource to be able to communicate to models the look that I want for photoshoots. This book provides a great library of looks to choose from, and provides the instructions on how to apply the cosmetics as well as a complete list of the cosmetics needed for that look.The only downside is that they decided to get artsy-fartsy in the text layout and broke just about every rule for typography, making the text awfully hard to read. The text is light grey on a white background, and in most cases there isn't any indentation or spacing to define paragraphs. Who ever approved the typesetting should be fired.

If you love Nars and you want to see how those fabulous runway looks are achieved this is the book for you. It details exactly how to apply the products, and names all the products to be used. The awesome thing is that there are before and after pictures --- a clear plastic overlay that shows you exactly where to apply the products on the face! All Ethnicities and complexions are explored too.

I purchased this book for myself because I wanted to know more about make-up and application. This book is fabulous, it shows you before and after, by paging through you can flip a clear page off the model to see her look! I ended up gifting this to a friend who is an aspiring make-up artist!

I have been a fan of Francois Nars for a long time and I absolutely love his clear plastic cover over the pictures and demonstrates where to place the shadows. It's a great book if you're first learning about makeup and a great coffee table book as well.

Beautiful amazing book..really well packaged,fast shipping.. love it, Thanks;)

Un 5 étoiles pour ce masterpiece. Attention il faut être équipé en produits Nars afin de reproduire les tutos photos.. Il faut avoir le geste pro. Mais magnifique ouvrage

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i purchased this for my makeup fanatic sister. i trailled through a lot of make up books and reviews before purchasing as this book is fairly expensive. but it really, honestly hasnt let me down. its a big book bound together. theres a lot of make up ideas - just note the amount of pages this book has!. each section has an overview of the make up and application then each make up idea is given a page of its own, followed by a clear acetate page showing the outline of make up application. note that all the make up is nars, but you can still use your own shades to achieve what u want. the acetate is plced over the made up page and you can see how to achieve a certain look. my sister wanted mainly eyeshadow application, but this has been one brilliant purchase as all looks are unuique, and specifically up to date. a lot of the maekup books give a good application technique but are quite dated. this has to be one of the best.

Perfect... Thank you.