Pro Makeup: Salon Secrets of the Professionals - Softcover

Spencer, Kit

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554074770 ISBN 13: 9781554074778

Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

The essential guide to makeup from a seasoned professional.

In this comprehensive guide, makeup artist Kit Spencer shares the beauty secrets and tricks that are essential in creating the perfect look. She advises on all aspects of makeup application and makeup kit essentials, including brushes, sponges, tweezers and eyelash curlers.

Step-by-step instructions and sequential photographs detail:

• Planning a makeup look
• How to effectively cleanse, tone, moisturize and prime skin
• How to alter a style for different ages
• Product formulations, color selection and application
• How to create the basic eye "look"
• Problem solving, from concealing acne to hiding facial hair
• Halloween looks for men and women and special effects
• Bridal makeup.

This innovative guide maps the face, describing which areas should be highlighted and which should be concealed. Spencer also advises on makeup courses and buying products and equipment, including a list of suppliers.

Packed with beautiful color photographs, Pro Makeup is the best and most comprehensive guide to makeup.

About this title

Review:

Kit Spencer provides easy to follow advice on how to create a look that is right for you, --Terry Peters"North Shore News" (05/28/2010)

Spencer covers all the basics and much more.--Jason Ashley Wright"Tulsa World" (11/01/2009)

Sharing the secrets of her career as a makeup artist, author Kit Spencer provides easy to follow advice on how to create a look that is right for you.... Colour photographs that show before and after views make it easy to follow along with her instructions. With its spiral ring design the book will lay open at any page you choose, making it that much easier to refer to her techniques as they are shown. Spencer even includes special sections on applying makeup to someone else, skin care for men and costume makeup.--Terry Peters"North Shore News" (05/28/2010)

Would make great [a] stocking stuffer for the fashionista on your list.... Leigh Toselli offers us common nonlicensed folks secrets of the professionals, among many other things.--Jason Ashley Wright"Tulsa World" (11/10/2010)

About the Author:

Kit Spencer is a makeup artist and hairstylist who works in television, movies and music videos, creating special effects for a range of clients. She is the author of two other books on hairstyles and makeup.

About this edition

• Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1554074770
• ISBN 13: 9781554074778
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 255