In Molly Ringwald's new book Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick, she looks back on her teen years that she spent on the big screen. Molly Ringwald is about my age, and so I grew up watching her, and the John Hughes movies that she starred in are so typically 80's, that I just had to revisit them. Read my interview with Molly Ringwald over at 5 Minutes for Mom, and enter to win a copy of her new book Getting the Pretty Back. The book is fun. It's not a beauty book, or a fashion book, or a self-help book. It has elements of all of this, but reading this book is just like having a good candid chat with a girlfriend. Ringwald dishes on personal style ...
Category Archives: Fashion/Beauty
The Lost Art of True Beauty
Clearly Leslie Ludy doesn’t care about being culturally relevant. Her book, The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace is a clarion call for young women to return to virtue, manners, and modesty. Not exactly the kind of headlines you see in most publications geared toward teenaged girls and young women today. In fact, it seems to me, a casual observer but an observer nonetheless, that Ludy is correct in her observation that many young women today are surrounded by “peers who [applaud] self-obsessed, arrogant, sexually aggressive young women.” Where are the women who possess genuine grace, poise, elegance and charm? Are these lost virtues? Is true beauty a lost art? According to Ludy, no, it is not. In fact, we must recapture the definition of true beauty and how we find it. Ludy tells her own story of ...
Looking Younger
I'm back with another beauty guide for your consideration! I know they all start to sound alike, but I find new tips and tricks to try in every book I read. I'm going to share a few with you from my latest read: Looking Younger by Robert Jones. This book is chock full of gorgeous full-page before and after photos. They're my favorite part. Jones says his goal in writing this book is to help women understand the fine details of makeup and its application. I would say that this is probably not a book for the makeup novice. As much as I enjoyed it, I found myself often thinking that many of his techniques were quite time consuming, to say nothing of cost-prohibitive. ...
Secret Keeper: The Delicate Power of Modesty
Secret Keeper is written for and designed to appeal to teen girls. Written by Dannah Gresh, author of The Bride Wore White, and published by Moody Press, this is a great conversation starter for the young girl in your life who is breaking into womanhood and is deciding who she wants to be and how she was to represent herself to the world. The premise of the book is that we as females have a "secret to keep" in our attempts to guard our bodies by clothing them modestly and with dignity. We, who are created in the images of God and for His glory should treat our bodies with the same respect that their Creator does. This book is blunt and to the point. Gresh does not tiptoe around the subject matter of sex and boldly ...
Get Positively Beautiful
This giveaway is now closed. The winners are... 1. Tiff from Three Peas in a Pod who said, "My eyes!! I love to watch What Not to Wear! Great giveaway!" and 2. Kristy who said, "My best feature is my eyes and would love to learn how to do a smokey eye." Congrats! And thanks to the folks at Hachette Book Group for sponsoring this giveaway. I've been a fan of What Not To Wear since the very first episode aired in 2003 with Stacy London and Wayne Scott Lukas. That's right, I did NOT say Clinton Kelly. Wayne Scott Lukas was the first male co-host of What Not To Wear. I was hooked on the show immediately and have been a loyal fan ever since. So when I was asked to review Carmindy's latest book, get ...
The One Hundred
When I was asked to review Nina Garcia's guide to The One Hundred stylish pieces every stylish woman must own, I eagerly emailed my contact at Collins Publishing with an enthusiastic YES! I am an avid watcher of the hit TV show Project Runway, and I adore Nina Garcia. I love her understated sense of style, and I always anticipate her colorful descriptions of the outfits on the show. I have had the opportunity to review quite a few style and beauty books by famous style icons, and this is hands-down my favorite so far. In The One Hundred, Nina not only lists the pieces she believes should be a part ...
The New Science of Perfect Skin
I was very excited to read Daniel Yarosh, Ph.D.'s The New Science of Perfect Skin. Yarosh is a scientist who has extensive experience in the field of skin care and specifically DNA repair. According to Yarosh, we are entering what he calls the New Skin-Care Revolution. Products are being created and introduced onto the market that have the ability to actually re-program the skin at a cellular level based on new findings about the human DNA code. This has the potential to be HUGE in the fight against aging. That also means that it is more confusing than ever before to know which products work and which don't. But in this book, Yarosh sets out to help the reader decipher the lingo and ...
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