Everyday Makeup Secrets: Tips for Choosing the Best Makeup for Your Unique Features

by Daniel Klingler

The cosmetics industry rakes in a whopping $42 billion annually and for good reason. Women love how makeup can make facial features pop and can hide flaws. Idiot's Everyday Makeup Secrets shows readers how to achieve everyday looks using reasonably priced makeup. Ideal for any age range, skin type, or skin color, this book features large, full-color photos showing step-by-step application for lips, cheeks, and eyes. It also includes helpful tips on correcting flaws, weather-proofing makeup, caring for skin, and creating the most popular looks.

Genres: Nonfiction

259 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 4, 2015

Reviews

[San Diego Book Review]

Reviewed by Amy Shane for San Diego Book Review

The Idiots Guide to Everyday Makeup Secrets, is an all-in-one comprehensive guide to everything you need to know to put your best face forward, exploring the depths of what makes makeup work, and why. From professional secrets, to basic principles of art and design, every avenue is lavishly explored. Once you crack the code behind the tools, skin care and application, everyone can be successful. With step by step tutorials, full color pictures, guides and easy to spot tips and techniques, you can go from basic to extraordinary.

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[Cold Cream 'n' Roses · Rating 2 out of 5]

Idiot's Guides: Everyday Makeup Secrets devotes too much space on faking the perfect face shape (oval, with evenly proportioned features) and perfect eye shape (almond) through highlighting and contouring. It also recommends eyebrow shapes for different face shapes: I would think that the best approach is to follow the natural shape of the brow bone.

The best parts of Idiot's Guide: Everyday Makeup Secrets are the call-out boxes, which feature many interesting hacks.

[Kristen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basically what I learned is that it requires a lot of tools and time to look a certain way. I'm ok with my own look, I guess, since I'm not willing to do the other stuff. Informative though.

[Renee]

Kind of boring.