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: #213799 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

Review
"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 )

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

About the Author

Carmindy is featured on TLC's What Not to Wear and is the cocreator of a natural line of cosmetics called Sally Hansen Natural Beauty inspired by Carmindy. She is also the author of the beauty book Get Positively Beautiful. Raised in southern California, she now lives in New York City.

Customer Reviews

Okay . . .
I hate to be a dissenting voice amongst the other reviewers, especially since I really like Carmindy on WNTW, but there it is. This is an okay, not great book. If you are experienced with makeup application you might find this to be a repeat of the basics, with no real new tricks added. There are many pictures of Carmindy, and even though I think she is lovely, I would have liked more (before and after) photos of other women -- I already know what Carmindy looks like.

There are a couple of lists in the back that are interesting: they detail the products Carmindy uses (and cheaper alternatives). I was pleased to see many of the same brands I like and use: Smashbox, NARS, Cargo, Dior, MAC, Lorac, Benefit, etc. and for these lists I gave the book three stars. On another positive note, if you are inexperienced with makeup or if you are a teenager, then this would probably be a useful book for you to purchase. I am 40, I have been using makeup for a long time, and was a bit disappointed by this book. I still think that Carmindy is a great makeup artist, I just didn't glean a whole lot from "The 5-Minute Face."

Pro Makeup at Home
I am a huge fan of the show, and love the makeup Carmindy does. She always makes women look natural, beautiful, and sexy. I love the book because she gives all her teqniques, and better yet ACTUAL products, for acheiving the looks. And she does this for every age, skin tone, special occassion, and everyday look possible. Plus, it's easy to do yourself. As a young mom who no longer hits the night scene, I find myself stuck in the same old without the expendible money to try the newest products in the newest colors for my skin and hair color. That's why this book is great. It's simple, but complete. My only critique is that she stops giving advice past the 50's crew, and there's no makeup suggestions in there for us fitness fanatics (we want to look good too - hey sometimes it doesn't happen till the end of the day!). Carmindy does a beautiful job and I found the number of pics just right to give a visual to the look she was portraying. I am buying two of these books as gifts for Mother's Day. Highly recommended!

Worth It
In this book, Carmindy provides makeup instructions for women of all skin colors, skin types and ages. The instructions are detailed enough to be able to achieve the look, but simple enough that anyone could follow them. She also gives tips on what types of products to buy and in what colors. In the back of the book Carmindy lists two brands that she recommends for each of the products she mentioned in the book - an expensive brand, for those of us who can afford to splurge, and a common drugstore brand, for those of us who can't!