Asian Faces: The Essential Beauty and Makeup Guide for Asian Women

by Taylor Chang-Babaian, Yoko Ono (Foreword)

A celebrity makeup expert shares her secrets in the first beauty guide for all Asian women.

Professional makeup artist Taylor Chang-Babaian shares her beauty secrets in Asian Faces-the first beauty book created specifically to focus on the techniques and styles that enhance the skin tones and facial features of Asian women of all ages and ethnicities. This fully illustrated, step-by-step guide includes advice

- Makeup products and tools to achieve the perfect skin tone
- How to work with one's face and eye shape
- Natural day looks and evening makeup
- Creating the illusion of flawless skin

With more than 100 full-color photographs and illustrations, Asian Faces covers costume makeup and favorite looks from past decades with a modern edge-as well as looks from top American style meccas including New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. Featuring celebrities Margaret Cho, Yunjin Kim and Moon Bloodgood.

Genres: Nonfiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published August 7, 2007

About the author

Taylor is one of the Top Celebrity Makeup artists in the country in the beauty, fashion, television and music indutries. She has been quoted in magazines including Elle, Glamour, In Style and Real Simple. Taylor has demonstrated her highly sought out techniques on television shows including The CBS Early show, Dr. Phil, Fox News and EXTRA."

Reviews

[Flat · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this book because I need a primer on how to get start on choosing and wearing cosmetics. This book was great for me. I needed it to prep for an out-of-town wedding. I just love how the author breaks it down on cosmetic tools, the different type of foundation etc. I think that this would be helpful for Asian population and others. I learn so much.

[Shu Yi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the layout of the book and the different makeup styles demonstrated on various Asian models.

[Misono · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is definitely an empowering book for Asian women which teaches you how to play up your natural and beautiful Asian features, rather than forcing beauty techniques intended for Caucasian faces that ultimately do not work. I'd grown up looking through beauty magazines like Seventeen, trying out their beauty tips to find that they weren't quite right for my facial structure, but here comes a book that sheds light on how I can better accentuate my features based on familiar examples. There are a variety of examples provided by this book for different kinds of faces characteristic of Asians. Some of the models that the author uses to showcase her techniques include comedian Margaret Cho and Yunjin Kim (from the TV series LOST).

The book includes helpful advice on color choices for cheeks, eyes, face, as well as a section on skincare. I'm no makeup whiz, but I feel that this book definitely provides some great tips on makeup application for the Asian woman.

[Greymalkin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good makeup tips but I wish there had been more specifics about dealing with east asian features, like the lack of nose bridge, the epicanthic eye fold, the different range of face shapes, etc. There was some general advice but nothing I hadn't read in other, more general books. It was fun to look at the different art poses though, a bit like Kevin Aucoin.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are a lot of beautiful looks in here, but it was not necessarily helpful to a very beginner.