DIY Beauty

DIY Beauty
Author: Ina De Clercq
Publisher: Adams Media
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1507209428

Treat yourself to a DIY spa day with these simple, natural, and affordable recipes to replicate your favorite beauty products—from bath bombs to face masks!—from Lush, the Body Shop, and more. Do you love indulging in self-care with fun beauty products, but want to save some money? Or maybe you take comfort in knowing exactly what you’re using on your skin. Or maybe you just love do-it-yourself projects! With DIY Beauty, you can learn to make your favorite beauty products from some of today’s most popular brands. Try making face scrubs inspired by Sephora, a homage to The Body Shop’s Body Butter, or a homemade version of Burt’s Bees ever-popular lip balm. From bath bombs to rival Lush to skin care products like e.l.f.’s blemish treatments, these inexpensive imitation recipes include easy step-by-step instructions to help you customize your beauty product routine. Find products that suit your unique skincare needs, modify your favorites for best results, and choose which organic or all-natural ingredients you prefer. Make your favorite must-have beauty products even better—by making them yourself!—with DIY Beauty.

Makeup Makeovers: Weddings

Makeup Makeovers: Weddings
Author: Robert Jones
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2006-11-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1616734175

This book is for all the brides and fans of Makeup Makeovers who want more specific tips on bridal makeup. A complete guide to wedding beauty by a well-known makeup artist and beauty consultant. The author travels all over the country every month speaking to real women just like you. If you have always wanted to learn from a makeup artist that knows how to make a bride look her most beautiful then this is the book for you. This stunning book is a full-color guide to applying wedding makeup, with countless stunning before-and-after pictures of regular women throughout. It is highly instructional and does not just show model perfect women, instead it focuses on the girl next door, your best friend and you. Every woman can be beautiful on her wedding day, no matter what her age or ethnic background, with Robert's makeup techniques. Every women will be able to find women that she can relate to in this book. Makeup Makeovers: Weddings features special makeup techniques for morning, midday, afternoon and evening weddings; because with each time of day you will photograph differently and as we all know one of the most important things to think about is how you will photograph. There is also chapters on more makeup tricks for wedding photos, and, of course, makeup for bridesmaids and matrons of honor. This is THE book for every bride wether you are buying it for your self or as a gift, it will tell you everything you ever needed or wanted to know about bridal makeup.

Decorate for a Party

Decorate for a Party
Author: Holly Becker
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2016-08-31
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1911127020

Learn to throw a fun and memorable party with this collection of decorating tips and techniques to ignite your creativity. Everyone loves a good party and Decorate for a Party, a unique collaboration between bestselling interiors author Holly Becker (founder of decor8) and photographer and product designer Leslie Shewring, will help you to throw some of your best ones yet! Decorate for a Party is a stunning sourcebook packed with decorating tips and techniques that will ignite your creativity. Whether you are planning a significant celebration or a simple dinner with friends, Holly and Leslie provide creative ideas for every occasion. All aspects of party planning are covered, from lighting to playlists, hostess gifts, colors and patterns, food ideas, wall décor ideas, and DIY projects—and they offer hundreds of fun tips that will make your party memorable. With over 200 practical ideas including ten step-by-step projects, ten playlists, and ten “6 Ways” projects, the book is split into ten sections by theme covering a range of different color palettes and styles—bright to moody tones, forest and children’s parties, and beautiful boho and modern styles. All themes can be mixed and matched to use for a wide variety of occasions in homes of any size, from the sprawling country home to a one-room city apartment. Decorate for a Party encourages you to make the most of what you have, make things by hand and modify store bought party supplies, and put your personality into your party. You’ll find hundreds of quick and beautiful ways to create a party that is meaningful, memorable, budget-friendly, and fun! “I love Holly and Leslie’s new book. Page by page with new and chic party ideas, all using inexpensive materials. Happy party everyone!”?Paul Lowe, Sweet Paul Magazine “Yes! @decor8 @leslieshewring’s new book is here and boy, is it fun! We can’t wait to dive in and make notes for upcoming parties.”?RUE magazine “Putting together a party can be overwhelming, especially when you have no idea where to start. Decorate for a Party breaks it down both logistically and visually and helps you decipher your party style. Whether planning a big bash or an intimate gathering, it’s an essential to have on hand for all your upcoming festivities.”?Joy Cho, Oh Joy “Holly Becker’s tips will help you set an unforgettable scene.” ?Katie Holdefehrm, Associate Editor, Apartment Therapy “What a gorgeous, inspiring, and heartfelt book.”?Laura Gaskill, Houzz.com

Make It Up

Make It Up
Author: Marie Rayma
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2016-12-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0762461179

Ever think of making your own beauty products -- handmade, high performance, healthy alternatives to just about every chemical laden product you currently put on your face and body? It's easier than you think! In Make It Up author Marie Rayma shares the recipes she has developed through years of trial, error, and testing to come up with the very best. This is real makeup and skincare: bright lipsticks, quality mineral powders, long-wearing eyeliners, and masks and cleansers that yield results. Rayma walks you through natural ingredients available online or at health food stores. These awesome oils, butters, clays, and minerals will replace the petroleum products, artificial colors, and lab-created mystery fragrances that have untold effects on our bodies. Products can be tailored for individual needs -- from swapping out ingredients not suitable for sensitive skin to whipping up the perfect colors suited for any complexion. With easy-to-follow instruction, Make It Up provides more than 40 essential cosmetics and skin care projects so you can make just what you want, when you need it.

Handmade Wedding Crafts

Handmade Wedding Crafts
Author: Betty Bee
Publisher: CICO Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Handicraft
ISBN: 9781908170903

With Handmade Wedding Crafts, you can create beautiful items for a unique wedding day at a fraction of the cost of buying new, often in a far more environmentally-friendly way, and all with a vintage flair. Betty Bee's 35 step-by-step projects show you how to make your bouquet, table centres, invitations, favours and more. Each chapter covers a different theme, so you can stick to one or mix and match. Incorporate some 1920s chic into your wedding with Jazz Baby Bride - with a feather boa fascinator and vintage brooch bouquet. Head to the Fabulous Fifties chapter for a vintage plate cake stand, outdoor standard lamps and bundles of bunting for postwar-inspired prettiness. If you'd like shabby chic style with a nostalgic twist, try French Fancies, with a birdcage wedding card post box, Versailles-inspired teacup chandelier and perfect lace parasol. Finally, discover ideas that are a little quirkier in Modern Retro - from felt flower table decorations to a distressed crate flower holder. Whether you are planning an intimate ceremony or a celebration for hundreds of guests, Handmade Wedding Crafts is packed with original ideas that you will love to make. - 35 handmade wedding decorations, accessories, favours and more. - All projects are easy to follow with clear instructions and step-by-step photographs. - Vintage themes include the Roaring Twenties, Fabulous Fifties, shabby chic and modern retro.

Ultimate Make-up & Beauty

Ultimate Make-up & Beauty
Author: Mary Quant
Publisher: Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1996
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781552090800

ULTIMATE MAKE-UP AND BEAUTY includes step-by-step photographic make-up lessons, self-analysis charts and detailed questionnaires, a stunning gallery of looks using a wide variety of colors and revitalizing body-care programs.

Homemade Beauty

Homemade Beauty
Author: Annie Strole
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0399171029

150 all-natural skin, hair and body care recipes that are inexpensive, toxin-free, and easy for readers to make themselves. Homemade Beauty is a beautifully packaged collection of 150 all-natural skin, hair and body care recipes. From turning blueberries into a lush detoxifying mask to fresh lemongrass into a non-toxic bug repellent, Homemade Beauty takes the ubiquitous eat-local, farm-to-table concept and brings it to the beauty category. As reports on the dangers of chemicals in cosmetics become increasingly alarming and the aspiration to live a more natural life grows, many of us are eager to take beauty regimens into our own hands to ensure we are putting only the safest and most natural ingredients on our bodies. Commercially available organic beauty products are expensive, but they are easy and cheaper to make at home and most require 5 simple ingredients or less. Recipes like Almond Rose Body Lotion, Coconut Lavender Shampoo, and Brown Sugar Vanilla Scrub will enchant you with heady scents – and thrill you when you realize these pampering products take only 5 minutes to make!

The Craft

The Craft
Author: Louise Teasdale
Publisher: Hardie Grant
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781742707013

In Make Me Up, rock and roll hair and makeup artist Lou Teasdale shows you how to style up your look from home. Lou starts with the basics and shares essential advice, including choosing moisturisers and foundations, how to shape the perfect brow and apply false eyelashes, and what she classes as beauty bag essentials. Make Me Up features step-by-step makeup, hair and nail tutorials that are edgy, stylish and fun - learn how to perfect liquid eyeliner flicks, create a smoky eye and apply lipstick that won't budge. The hair section will have you dip-dying, clipping in extensions and toning your tresses over your bathroom sink to achieve the hottest hair trends of the moment. Featuring favourite hair and makeup tricks of the beauty industry as well as beauty inspiration from the fashion-obsessed streets of London, Make Me Up is essential reading for all girls with a love of hair and makeup.

Natural Beauty

Natural Beauty
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2015-02-02
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1465439897

Revolutionize your beauty regime with this guide to homemade natural remedies and holistic beauty treatments. Some miracle treatments cost a fortune, but Natural Beauty shows you how to prepare products in your own home that are guaranteed to make you look and feel gorgeous. It identifies natural ingredients for healthy skin, guides you through before-and-after makeovers, and shows you techniques to pamper every skin type.