Product Description

Good beauty advice is hard to come by these days. Women are constantly inundated with products that promise to remove wrinkles, reduce puffiness, highlight cheekbones, hide blemishes, and make them look younger, healthier, tanner, and even thinner–but do these products really work? Are they worth the time, money, and effort? Carmindy, makeup artist on TLC's popular show What Not to Wear, believes that the secret to a great look is to focus on the positive: learn how to enhance your best natural features with sheer washes of color rather than hide under layers of artificial–looking makeup. In The 5–Minute Face, Carmindy shares her beauty philosophy, offering a practical, easy, and always–successful makeup routine that works for all ages and skin types.

The steps for achieving the five–minute face–from smoothing on foundation, to slicking on lip color–are simple. But as Carmindy demonstrates, many women don't know which product is right for their skin tones, or are clueless on how to apply makeup for optimal results. Throughout every chapter, she provides valuable advice on perfecting the makeup technique that is right for your face, including product tips and accompanying "toolbox" sections that describe which tools to use with each type of makeup.

No matter what your age is, or whether you have porcelain skin or rosacea, Carmindy will help you look fabulous. In addition to the 5–minute makeover, she discusses:

•How to Get Brows That Wow: Learn what brow shape best frames your face

•What's Age Got to Do with It?: Tricks and trade secrets that keep every woman looking beautiful, from teens to women fifty and over.

•Beauty Comes in All Colors: Freckles? Blemishes? Carmindy solves the problems that make finding the perfect makeup for your skin tone difficult. Also includes tips on lash dying for those fair lashes, and lash perming for those who want permanently curled lashes.

•The 10–Minute Face: Carmindy shows how to build on the 5–minute face for special occasions. Everything from sexy dates–looking right in all white at your wedding–to the perfect look for a job interview.

Accompanied throughout by Palma Kolansky's beautiful photography, The 5–Minute Face is every woman's guide to enhancing their unique and beautiful features with the perfect makeup routine.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4754 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-01
• Released on: 2007-04-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Review
"An easy-to-follow, foolproof routine that . . . gives radiant results in a mere five minutes." -- InStyle

"We’re so happy that the amazing advice Carmindy has contributed to the show is now available for all women." -- Stacy London and Clinton Kelly, style experts for TLC's What Not to Wear

About the Author

Carmindy was raised in Southern California, where she started doing makeup fifteen years ago. Today she is featured on TLC's What Not to Wear, and has worked with celebrities such as Cindy Crawford, Isabella Rossellini, Heidi Klum, BjÖrk, and Christie Brinkley. Her work can be seen in Cosmopolitan, Elle, Vogue, GQ, Essence, Details, Marie Claire, and InStyle. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Customer Reviews

Awesome Tips
This book has awesome tips for everything from applying foundation to shape of your eyebrow. I recommend this book to every woman and girl that needs some help or advice on applying makeup to best display their inner beauty.

5 minutes--IF you skip half your makeup
I felt so cheated by this book. This book can be summed up by simply saying that you can do your makeup in 5 minutes by simply cutting out half of your makeup routine. For example, instead of using lip liner and lipstick, just dab on some lip gloss. And if you have to do anything special--like curling your lashes, concealing blemishes, or a night out on the town, that's not included within the allotted 5 minutes.
I bought this book because the description mentioned that it can teach you how to conceal freckles. The secret?: Learn to live with them.
Instead of recommending colors for certain eye and hair combinations, she gives one set of colors for women in their 30's, one set of colors for women in their 50's, etc. I don't know about you, but I can't wear orange blush and lipstick.

So so..
This was a quick and easy read. I'm a complete makeup noob so I found some of her tips informational. I haven't been able to try any of it, but I plan to someday. It seemed like the book had more photos of irrelevant things than information. I'm glad I got such a good deal on the book at Amazon. If i had paid the price at Borders i'd feel like it was a complete waste of money.