The Japanese Skincare Revolution: How to Have the Most Beautiful Skin of Your Life - at Any Age - Softcover

Chizu Saeki

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9784770030832: The Japanese Skincare Revolution: How to Have the Most Beautiful Skin of Your Life - at Any Age

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ISBN 10: 4770030835 ISBN 13: 9784770030832

Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd, 2009

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Japanese women are renowned for their beautiful skin, but until now there has been no book in English that reveals the secrets of the typical Japanese beauty routine. The Japanese Skincare Revolution is the first guide for women of all ages and races who want to have beautiful skin, and don t want to spend lots of money on cosmetics and treatments to achieve it. This book is a distillation of renowned aesthetician Chizu Saeki s most essential techniques. In it, readers will be introduced to the lotion mask a moisturizing treatment for keeping skin fresh and lustrous; hand techniques for toning the muscles of the face; lymph massages for draining toxins and improving blood flow; natural, no-nonsense remedies for wrinkles, sagging, oiliness, pimples and blackheads; warm care and cool care for soothing the mind and body; water massages to energize the skin; and much, much more. Throughout the book, Saeki calls on the reader to use their own hands to touch and treat their face, and their own eyes to judge what their skin needs. By following her advice, readers will discover that it s possible to have beautiful skin at any age without spending a fortune. The revolutionary ideas presented in this volume have won the approval of skin doctors within Japan and out. The Japanese Skincare Revolution is Saeki s best-selling skincare title, and her first to be translated into English.

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"interactive and engaging...We all know we don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million bucks, and I'm all for Saeki's feel-good message." -Bella Sugar Online "Now we can all find out the secrets to their beautiful skin thanks to ... The Japanese Skincare Revolution." -TalkingMakeup.com "And the core of her methods--getting women to use things they already have--resonates even more as consumers tighten purse strings." --Reuters "[The Japanese Skincare Revolution offers] practical techniques to combat everything from puffiness to dry skin, using simple massage methods and quick facials with items readily available at home." --The New York Daily News "interactive and engagingWe all know we don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million bucks, and I'm all for Saeki's feel-good message." Bella Sugar Online "Now we can all find out the secrets to their beautiful skin thanks to The Japanese Skincare Revolution." TalkingMakeup.com "And the core of her methodsgetting women to use things they already haveresonates even more as consumers tighten purse strings." Reuters"[The Japanese Skincare Revolution offers] practical techniques to combat everything from puffiness to dry skin, using simple massage methods and quick facials with items readily available at home." The New York Daily News

About the Author:

Chizu Saeki was born in China but raised in Japan. She is an aesthetician by trade, and arguably Japan s most popular beauty advisor. She has worked in the cosmetics industry most of her life, entering Guerlain at 24 and retiring from Parfums Christian Dior at 60, where she worked for 15 years as an international training manager. Saeki has written more than 30 skincare books, all bestsellers, selling over 3 million copies in Japan. Now 65, she is president of her own company, Chizu Corp a salon and beauty school based in Tokyo. Her skincare methods have been extremely popular not only in Japan but also in China, where she won a national book award for The Japanese Skincare Revolution. She writes columns for several women s magazines and regularly appears on television.

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