Product Description

Being a beauty editor is a bit like being a doctor: wherever you go people are always asking 'What should I do about this patch of dry skin?'; 'What's the fashionable eyebrow shape?'; 'Do the latest anti-ageing creams really work?' But Baird-Murray has turned this to her advantage to write the first book that gives you the inside track: the knowledge that only models and the best connected people in the industry can hope to have. Packed with practical information, the book tells you how to get the hairstyle you want, and the colour; explains which shampoos and hair treatments work and why; discusses skin care routines and facials (including fillers and fixers); key make-up tips from the best make-up consultants in the world, right down to how to choose the right perfume. If you've ever wanted to look just a little bit better this is the book for you!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #413296 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
"a refreshingly quirky read, with everything from the "Sex in the City" stars' beauty secrets to the truth about miracle face creams. Myths are exposed and make-up artists interrogated. Riveting." -- "Sunday Times Style"

Trinny Goodhall
A great new angle on a beauty book. Extremely readable and pacy, and full of new facts that even I as a vain, cynical beauty hack was not aware of.

Ruby Hammer, make-up artist
Kathleen Baird-Murray does for beauty what Nigella Lawson does for food

Customer Reviews

How to be beautiful, the thinking womans guide
i was at first disappointed when i received this book as it is printed on cheap paper. however, when i began to read the content of the book, i loved it. the book is so interesting and it is really informative. it is not your usual boring beauty manual but a charming easy to read book written by a lady who is in touch with the experts. she has a lovely way of writing and the book is a pleasure to own. if you would like to know what the experts think about botox, what it is and how long it takes to work or how to disguise dark rings under your eyes and 101 other questions, this is the book for you. i am just ordering one for my sister before she pinches mine.

An insightful peek into the world of Beauty
If your are a makeup obsessive like me you will be very pleased with this book. Not only does it give you some great tips and advice it also shows you what the world of glamour and beauty is. It is really worth buying, not just as a beauty book but as an interesting read too.

Bad science
From the Guardian's 'Bad Science' column, 1 May 2003:

Dr Victoria Kaziewicz sends us even more preposterous pseudo-science: "In a book called How to be Beautiful, by Kathleen Baird Murray, you can read that beauty products containing natural ingredients are preferable because naturally occurring substances are irregularly shaped like the substances making up your own body, while manufactured chemicals are perfect spheres."