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Author: Karen Marie Shelton
Book Reviewer
HairBoutique.com Making Up by Rex : Beauty for Every Age Every Woman |
 Making Up by Rex : Beauty for Every Age Every Woman
by Rex Hilverdink, Diana Lewis Jewell
This is a book that has been around for over many years. I should know....it has been
sitting on my bookshelf at home for most of those years. Rex is the famous makeup genius
behind dozens of Vogue covers. He also worked with scores of international beauties. This
book of 100 drawings demonstrates how every woman from 18 to 80 can make the most of her
looks with a step-by-step, fully illustrated guide to personalized makeup.
I enjoyed this book when I first bought it and I enjoyed it when I recently pulled it
off my bookshelf to review it. Rex offers makeup tips for all types of women. Not just
gorgeous ones. He also takes into consideration hair color and style. This is of
importance to me since my first focus is always on the hair. A lot of people will worry
first about their makeup and then their hair. I always do the reverse. I worry that my
hair looks good, then I worry about the makeup.
I like the fact that Rex balances both the hair and the makeup. He provides examples of
women with white hair, black women, women with glasses and a variety of other unusual
types of women. He also categorizes women according to the shapes of their faces. However,
his categories are related to planets such as the Sun, Moon, Mars and Saturn. I found his
different examples intriguing and interesting.
I would recommend this book because it still provides some new ideas that can be
adopted for the current times. It is interesting to note that Kevin Aucoin's The Art of
Makeup (see my review) is the 90s version of this first book by Rex.
Enjoy!
Buy The Book
Paperback: 132 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition (March
16, 1988)
ISBN: 0517569558 |