Product Description

Makeup Your Mind deftly combines cult favorite cosmetics designer Francois Nars' two remarkable talents - makeup and photography, both of which he uses in this collection to stunning effect - to show women how to enhance their natural beauty. Designed by renowned graphic artist FAbien Baron to be the ultimate makeup how-to book, Makeup Your Mind is a comprehensive compilation of Before and After photographs, each containing instructional acetate overlays, covering almost every face type, complexion, eye color, and facial feature found on the runway today. Makeup Your Mind is also a revolutionary instruction manual on makeup from one of the most respected and imitated cosmetics artists in fashion today: a makeup book designed and constructed as a durable paperback companion suitable for the vanity or for the car, sliding in and out of its attractive hardcover binder as needed, containing precise instructional guides on clear plastic overlays indicating exactly what goes where, allowing you to see the finished effect for perfect results. Summarizing each chapter on Eyes, Lips, Neutrals, Shimmer, Monochrome and Suntan, Pastels, Color, and Skincare are Francois Nars' trademarked guidelines on the technique of applying makeup for that dazzling NARS look. Showcasing the famous NARS look are today's top models, including Karen Elson, Maggie Rizer, Naomi Campbell, Devon Aoki, Trish Goff, Erin O'Connor, Sophie Dahl, May Anderson, Ling, Aurelie, Missy Rayder, Elsa, Caroline Ribero, Eva Herzagova, and many others. Makeup Your Mind features these women and more in 63 stunning Before and After pictures. All of the models were shot sans makeup for the Before pictures, displaying their bare-naked faces replete with imperfections and idiosyncrasies. Their transformations in the After pictures span from natural and elegant to fun and outrageous. In superb four-color photographs and brilliant acetate instructional guides, Makeup Your Mind demonstrates how makeup can minimize flaws and maximize beauty potential for every woman.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #122354 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 284 pages

About the Author
François Nars is president and creative director of NARS cosmetics, with more than 200 boutiques worldwide. His work has been featured on the runways of designers like Versace, Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Marc Jacobs, and Karl Lagerfeld, and on the covers of such prestigious magazines as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Italian Vogue, W, Elle, and Allure. Additionally, Nars has collaborated with such legendary photographers as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, and Patrick Demarchelier. Nars’ first monograph, X-Ray (pH, 1999) was published to instant acclaim and sold out in just over three months. Born in France, Nars lives and works in New York City.

Fabien Baron, president of Baron and Baron, is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed graphic designer who, in addition to famously redefining the look of Harper’s Bazaar in 1992, designed Madonna’s notorious art book, Sex. Baron is also Art Director for print and television advertisements for Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Kors, Prada, Valentino, Jil Sander, and Burberry; fragrance and makeup package designer for NARS, Calvin Klein, and Carolina Herrera; and Editor-in-Chief of Arena Homme Plus Born in France, Baron lives and works in New York City.

Customer Reviews

Not challenging for the professional
As a professional makeup artist and Instructor, I found this book non-beneficial, although it was beautifully laid out. (The art director did a fabulous job.) All but a few eye techniques were a basic color wash of one color. This book does not challenge the professional with different techniques or looks. What I and the other instructors found horrifying was the lack of brow grooming. Any print artist knows that everything needs to be flawless before they go on film. One models brows were growing in all directions. The other con to this book was the light grey type that was tightly spaced. While creatively appealing, it was very hard to read.
What I did like was the acetate overlays with the description of the basic color and then the color in his line. What I thought would have helped the book out even more was to provide pictures of the products he was using or to tell a little more about them because if you aren't familiar with his line, you had no idea what he was using.

Very Creative Makeup Book!
This is a great makeup book! The pictures are wonderful. You get to see a before and after shot of each model, plus you get a clear plastic "diagram" that covers the after picture to explain what makeup was used and where it was placed. The only complaint I have is that it tends to be too much of an advertisement for Nars cosmetics. That said, it really shows you images of a very natural makeup application to a really wild "runway" look.

If you are looking for more great ideas in makeup application, check out Kevyn Aucoin's Making Faces for some inspiration.

Not Impressed
First of all, the introduction rubbed me the wrong way and I found it full of contradictions and a way to knock other makeup artists. He mentioned that makeup articles in "these books" are blatently unrealistic because of the retouching, yet I didn't see one blood vessle in the eyes in any of the pictures in this book. He also says you should "notice the woman, not her makeup", but isn't that hard to do when you look at a face with acid green, orange and gold eyeshadow topped off with bushy eyebrows? All of the models seem to be in the same age range and are obviously professional models. How does this benefit the reader who really needs and wants advise? Why didn't he pick people off the street to really get his point across? The pictures are large and self explanitory, but he was better off choosing a wide variety of women based on age, race etc. so everyone benefits.