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Robert Jones' Makeup Masterclass: A Complete Course in Makeup for All Levels, Beginner to Advanced
Robert Jones’ Makeup Masterclass is a comprehensive guide to makeup that is organized from beginner to pro. You can start at your skill level and learn!
This all inclusive guide to the makeup brush is a full beauty education for women (and men!) of all ages and skill levels. Robert Jones' Makeup Masterclass features lessons for people of all skill levels; from the “makeup-challenged” to those who are ready to take their skills to the professional level.
This guide book includes:
Step-by-step photos to build your makeup repertoire and maximize natural beauty at any age
Techniques to highlight your best traits and build your confidence as a makeup artist
Before-and-after photos to help you achieve looks for any skin tone
Basic products and tools you should have in your makeup drawer
Extensive product information to help you make smart purchases
Tips for organizing your makeup—know what to keep and what to toss
Secrets about product shelf-life and makeup ingredients you should know before buying
Tips and tricks to help you achieve your desired effect, shape your face, and find quick fixes for problem areas (dark circles, age spots, thin lips, uneven skin tone, and more)
Helpful Q&As in every chapter
Quick-reference index
Robert Jones’ Makeup Masterclass is about more than dramatic transformations. It’s for honing makeup artistry and building confidence for a beautiful result.
This all inclusive guide to the makeup brush is a full beauty education for women (and men!) of all ages and skill levels. Robert Jones' Makeup Masterclass features lessons for people of all skill levels; from the “makeup-challenged” to those who are ready to take their skills to the professional level.
This guide book includes:
Step-by-step photos to build your makeup repertoire and maximize natural beauty at any age
Techniques to highlight your best traits and build your confidence as a makeup artist
Before-and-after photos to help you achieve looks for any skin tone
Basic products and tools you should have in your makeup drawer
Extensive product information to help you make smart purchases
Tips for organizing your makeup—know what to keep and what to toss
Secrets about product shelf-life and makeup ingredients you should know before buying
Tips and tricks to help you achieve your desired effect, shape your face, and find quick fixes for problem areas (dark circles, age spots, thin lips, uneven skin tone, and more)
Helpful Q&As in every chapter
Quick-reference index
Robert Jones’ Makeup Masterclass is about more than dramatic transformations. It’s for honing makeup artistry and building confidence for a beautiful result.
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288 pages, Paperback
Published December 19, 2017
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November 30, 2019
This is wonderful. everything I wanted the others to be. Love it and would buy!
December 27, 2018
A great book for makeup enthusiast as well as new and experienced make-up artists alike! Very informative and well written. Easy to follow, and taught me so much more about make-up than I knew before.
December 18, 2017
This stunning book and clear step-by-step instructions on creating your best look.
January 4, 2018
Very informative. Lots of step by step tutorials for basic techniques with detailed pictures of a range of models.
December 27, 2018
I was expecting definitely more from this book. I have been studying make up for few years now and I'd say this is mainly for beginners. A nice read if you're starting from 0 though!
August 27, 2025
I’m planning on one day dressing up like a beautiful woman, seducing an affluent older gentleman, getting him to marry me and then hopefully leave me all his money in his will. The journey from here to there, though—from ugly man to beautiful or at least convincing woman—is a long one. And step one (after watching “Tootsie” and “Mrs. Doubtfire” religiously) is to learn to apply makeup like a pro.
For that, “Robert Jones’ Masterclass,” serves as a very good place to start. Jones is a master in the field who has worked with all manner of celebrities in fields from music to film. He lists among his clients singer Sheryl Crowe and whatever-the-hell-it-is Selena Gomez does when not butchering the Spanish language with her terrible accent.
As with most things that seem complicated, the science of applying makeup can be distilled to a few simple principles. Chief among these seems to be using makeup to highlight good features and to subdue those one feels are not their best. Once one has achieved some basic fluency there, they can go on to more complicated and challenging tasks. Chief among these seems to be using makeup to create illusions so that even the shape of one’s face seems to change. By the careful application of foundation and the mastery of color blending, you can trick the viewer’s eye into receiving your image as you wish it to be received. Much like the art of the professional magician, the real magic is in providing little nudges and using sleights-of-hand to suggest certain things and dissuade the eye from making other assumptions.
This is not to say, though, that it’s all about deception. A lot of what’s commendable in this book is that its author embraces the idea of the subject embracing those unchangeable things about their face, even when they don’t always like those aspects of themselves. It’s important to remember that many times the things women are most self-conscious about are the things that other people (men and women) find appealing in them.
Besides, so much of what we pretend are immutable laws about beauty are really just based on the caprices and whims of the moment. If you don’t believe me, look at the ideal female form as projected in media before and after Sir-Mix-A-Lot released “Baby Got Back.”
We haven’t quite gotten back to that place we were in antiquity when the fertility fetish the Venus of Willendorf was the beau ideal, but we’re getting closer.
Maybe, then, I should pudge up a bit before getting out there and attempting to seduce my affluent gentleman while disguised as a beautiful lady?
Decisions, decisions.
For that, “Robert Jones’ Masterclass,” serves as a very good place to start. Jones is a master in the field who has worked with all manner of celebrities in fields from music to film. He lists among his clients singer Sheryl Crowe and whatever-the-hell-it-is Selena Gomez does when not butchering the Spanish language with her terrible accent.
As with most things that seem complicated, the science of applying makeup can be distilled to a few simple principles. Chief among these seems to be using makeup to highlight good features and to subdue those one feels are not their best. Once one has achieved some basic fluency there, they can go on to more complicated and challenging tasks. Chief among these seems to be using makeup to create illusions so that even the shape of one’s face seems to change. By the careful application of foundation and the mastery of color blending, you can trick the viewer’s eye into receiving your image as you wish it to be received. Much like the art of the professional magician, the real magic is in providing little nudges and using sleights-of-hand to suggest certain things and dissuade the eye from making other assumptions.
This is not to say, though, that it’s all about deception. A lot of what’s commendable in this book is that its author embraces the idea of the subject embracing those unchangeable things about their face, even when they don’t always like those aspects of themselves. It’s important to remember that many times the things women are most self-conscious about are the things that other people (men and women) find appealing in them.
Besides, so much of what we pretend are immutable laws about beauty are really just based on the caprices and whims of the moment. If you don’t believe me, look at the ideal female form as projected in media before and after Sir-Mix-A-Lot released “Baby Got Back.”
We haven’t quite gotten back to that place we were in antiquity when the fertility fetish the Venus of Willendorf was the beau ideal, but we’re getting closer.
Maybe, then, I should pudge up a bit before getting out there and attempting to seduce my affluent gentleman while disguised as a beautiful lady?
Decisions, decisions.
June 23, 2023
Very thorough and an immense amount of photos showing you exactly how to recreate the techniques.
Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews