Max Factor's Hollywood

Max Factor's Hollywood
Author: Fred E. Basten
Publisher: Stoddart
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1995
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

For most of the twentieth century, the name Max Factor has been synonymous with beauty, glamour, and style. Max Factor's Hollywood: Glamour, Movies, Make-Up goes behind the name and shows how a mild-mannered Russian immigrant became a legend by changing the faces of Hollywood- and the world.

Max Factor and Hollywood

Max Factor and Hollywood
Author: Erika Thomas
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1439658757

The story of the makeup artist who changed the film industry—and the world of modern cosmetics. Includes photos. When Polish wigmaker and cosmetician Max Factor arrived in Los Angeles at the dawn of the motion picture industry, “make-up” had been associated only with stage performers and ladies of the oldest profession. Appalled by the garish paints worn by actors, Factor introduced the first “flexible” greasepaint for film in 1914. With a few careful brush strokes, a lot of innovation, and the kind of luck that can happen only in Hollywood, Max Factor changed the meaning of glamour. His innovations can be experienced in every tube of lipstick, palette of eye shadow, and bottle of nail lacquer used today. Join author Erika Thomas as she reveals the makeup guru's expert beauty tips and the story of how he created the most iconic golden-era looks that are as relevant today as they were nearly a century ago.

Max Factor

Max Factor
Author: Fred E. Basten
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2012-04-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1611451353

Traces the life and influence of the cosmetics innovator, describing his early years as a beautician for the Russian royal family, role in developing the images of leading Hollywood stars, and contributions to the establishment of the retail cosmetics industry.

Bobbi Brown Makeup Manual

Bobbi Brown Makeup Manual
Author: Bobbi Brown
Publisher: Grand Central Life & Style
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2008-12-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0446543209

This is the book that Bobbi Brown's fans have been waiting for: her 25-plus years of makeup styling experience distilled into one complete, gorgeous book. Bobbi looks at everything from skincare basics to every aspect of facial makeup--from how to find the right color and type of foundation for any skin tone to how to apply every detail of eye makeup (Brows, Eye Liner, Eye Shadow, and Eye Lashes) no matter your eye color and shape. Of course there are never-before-seen tips on blush, bronzer, lip liners, lipstick, etc. And Bobbi looks beyond the face with informative chapters on "Hands and Feet" and "Body Skin Care." Each chapter has thorough step-by-step basic directions for makeup application and easy-to-follow photographs and line drawings, along with Bobbi's expert, yet assuring, advice. Plus, there's a groundbreaking section of the book that will be of special interest to women who've wanted to know how makeup stylists do what they do: the top beauty secrets only these artists know, essential equipment to keep on hand, how to break into the business, and how to work with photographers and celebrities. Breathtaking photos of the finished faces-from everyday looks to exotic runway style-along with advice on putting it all together for every woman, make this a book like no other. Bobbi Brown's Makeup Manual will be the only book any woman will need to look absolutely fabulous.

Hope in a Jar

Hope in a Jar
Author: Kathy Peiss
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2011-11-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 081220574X

How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture, from the buttermilk and rice powder recommended by Victorian recipe books to the mass-produced products of our contemporary consumer age. She shows how women, far from being pawns and victims, used makeup to declare their freedom, identity, and sexual allure as they flocked to enter public life. And she highlights the leading role of white and black women—Helena Rubenstein and Annie Turnbo Malone, Elizabeth Arden and Madame C. J. Walker—in shaping a unique industry that relied less on advertising than on women's customs of visiting and conversation. Replete with the voices and experiences of ordinary women, Hope in a Jar is a richly textured account of the ways women created the cosmetics industry and cosmetics created the modern woman.

Pretty Iconic: A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World

Pretty Iconic: A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World
Author: Sali Hughes
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2016-10-20
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0008194548

Over 200 iconic products that are among the best and most influential in the beauty world – past, present and future. ‘Sali Hughes has created a universe filled with galaxies of beauty secrets’ Charlotte Tilbury