Product Description

The Emmy Award-winning hairstylist for The Oprah Winfrey Show shares his secrets on how a woman can get the best cut, color, curl, texture, and style to enhance her own natural beauty. 250,000 first printing.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #394896 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

From Booklist
Your first reaction may be "not another Oprah employee with a get-rich book." Yes, Walker is a five-time Emmy Award^-winning hairstylist and Oprah Winfrey's personal hairstylist for the last decade, but this is a great book! He has done an incredible job of talking about hair in an Essence-Cosmo-Glamour type layout that details the how-tos of hair care and not just his way of doing hair. The 10 chapters cover getting to know yourself; defining your hair type, care, and feeding; the art of the cut; making the chemical connection work for you; caring for gray; handling the hairy curveballs; expanding on what mother nature handed out; and finding the perfect hairstylist. The book covers care for all hair types and for women of all ages and ethnicities. Walker provides women with tricks of the trade that will enable them to be discerning hair customers. And Oprah has endorsed the book by writing the foreword. Andredefinitely talks about hair, and it is definitely worth reading. Lillian Lewis

Review
Your first reaction may be "not another Oprah employee with a get-rich book." Yes, Walker is a five-time Emmy Award^-winning hairstylist and Oprah Winfrey's personal hairstylist for the last decade, but this is a great book! He has done an incredible job of talking about hair in an Essence-Cosmo-Glamour type layout that details the how-tos of hair care and not just his way of doing hair. The 10 chapters cover getting to know yourself; defining your hair type, care, and feeding; the art of the cut; making the chemical connection work for you; caring for gray; handling the hairy curveballs; expanding on what mother nature handed out; and finding the perfect hairstylist. The book covers care for all hair types and for women of all ages and ethnicities. Walker provides women with tricks of the trade that will enable them to be discerning hair customers. And Oprah has endorsed the book by writing the foreword. Andredefinitely talks about hair, and it is definitely worth reading. --Lillian Lewis --Booklist

About the Author
Andre Walker has received five Emmys for his work on The Oprah Winfrey Show. He has served as Ms. Winfrey's personal hairstylist for over a decade and her wardrobe consultant for over three years. Walker's celebrity clients include Barbara Bush, Maya Angelou, Debbie Allen, Jackée, Lonette McKee, Roseanne, and Halle Berry, for whom he created what is commonly referred to as the "Halle Berry haircut." His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Allure, Essence, Ebony, and People.

Customer Reviews

A fun, LIGHT read
I bought this book at a half-price book store and I am very content with my purchase. If I had bought it full price, I probably wouldn't have been as content. It's a very light beginner book that has some basic information in it, such as the different hair types, and fun commentary on each of them. However, the descriptions and "secret techniques" are somewhat embryonic. Take the "Growing Your Hair Long" section for example: Walker recommends that you get trims as necessary, and hide akward growth phases under clips and hats. ...No really, that's it. That's the "secret technique".

In sum, while an amusing read, this book is not a hair bible. I would not recommend it to those who are looking for guidance on ... well, just about any hair questions. Great for Oprah fans, and those who cannot get enough of expert books on hair.

Great book on all hair types, From a African-American.
I totallly disagree with many of the African-American reviewers. They said exactly the OPPOSITE of what the book is about. He did NOT lump blacks in one category. If you could read, you would see that he says, NO hair is black hair, NO hair is of any race. All ethnicities have all different kinds of hair. He then talked about each type of hair. And by the way, just because he is black does not mean he has to focus only on blacks. That is not the title of the book. Its title is Andre talks HAIR, NOT Andre talks black hair. I'm sorry that you didn't open your mind when your read this magnificent book. He focused on all hair types the same amount of time. So I highly recommend this book to any one interested in learning more about hair, how to get it in it's healthiest state, and to gain well rounded knowledge. And Andre, please don't let these few narrow-minded people bother you one bit!!!

No new information
Although heavily promoted, Andre's book did not provide any new information on how to care for hair. What I particularly disliked was the negativity involved in his presentation of the type 4 hair type. He just added another myth to the list by saying our only two options are to either crop our hair short or relax it. I don't recommend this book.