From: brock@ucsub.Colorado.EDU (Steve Brock)
Subject: Review of the Art of Makeup (cosmetics, art)
Date: 30 Dec 1994 00:11:04 GMT

THE ART OF MAKEUP by Kevyn Aucoin.  HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.,
10 E. 53rd St., N.Y., NY 10022-5299, (800) 242-7737, (800) 822-4090
FAX.  Illustrated.  175 pp., $60.00 cloth.  0-06-017186-3

                     Reviewed by Steve Brock

          Ten Most Common Makeup Mistakes: #1 - Timidity: 
          allowing fear of what other people will think 
          affect the way one thinks about oneself, and 
          therefore the way one presents oneself to others.

     A coffee-table book for the bathroom?  This combination
biography, instruction book, and pictorial is an intimate portrait
of the makeup artist to the supermodels.  The short instructional
sections provide information on makeup tools, use of foundation,
accenting the eyes, eyelashes, and eyebrows, the lip pencils and
lipstick, use of blush, step-by-step application tips, and a
section on advanced techniques such as the use of metallics,
taping, and colorwashing.
     Aucoin follows the instructions with seven make-overs,
including his mother (who considers makeup a luxury).  Next come
the portraits (Naomi Campbell, Tori Amos, Kate Moss, Demi Moore and
a demure Rosanne, to name a few) which rub in the fact that there
are a few women that lots of other women will never resemble.
     Like a face full of makeup mistakes, the makeup tips in "The
Art of Makeup" are much too general and superficial to be of use to
women looking for individualized techniques.  The portraits, though
fun to thumb through, are telling visions of what most women will
never look like.  I fear this book will be passed around by those
whose portraits are included in the places they frequent, and it
will be seen by few others.  Grades: Design: A, Content: C.