In Eating For Beauty, author David Wolfe, one of America’s foremost nutrition experts, describes how to cleanse, nourish and beautify by utilizing the benefits of a fresh-food diet. The lessons contained within this book can be applied to improve one’s appearance, vitality, and health. This book is about how to become more beautiful, …
“A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life,” quipped Oscar Wilde, a fashion genius who could knot an ascot as well as he could turn a phrase. For the rest of us, there’s How to Tie a Tie. Whether you have always wanted to master a classic Windsor knot or simply need to rustle up an acceptable …
30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She’s 30
Featuring advice, wisdom, and observations from an array of prominent and beloved women, 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She’s 30 is an essential guide (and perfect gift) for women on the brink of thirty–and for those who are already there! Fifteen years ago, Glamour published a list of distinctive yet universally …
The Piercing Bible: The Definitive Guide to Safe Body Piercing
Piercing pioneer Elayne Angel has performed over 40,000 piercings since the 1980s and has brought many practices, such as tongue-piercing, into the mainstream. She brings her exhaustive knowledge to this groundbreaking manual that covers everything you need to know about the process, including:• The best piercings and placements for various body parts and body types• Terminology, tools, and …
Bobbi Brown Beauty Rules: Fabulous Looks, Beauty Essentials, and Life Lessons
Bestselling author and famed makeup artist Bobbi Brown’s Beauty Rules is the definitive beauty bible for teens and twenty-somethings. Now available in paperback—with a fresh cover and lower price—the book is more appealing than ever to teens and their moms. Emphasizing natural beauty, Bobbi shares age-appropriate makeup tips, style secrets, self-esteem boosters, and techniques for perfecting the prettiest …
Selection of the Children’s Book-of-the-Month ClubStyling girls’ hair is easy with advice from the owner of Cozy’s Cuts for Kids. Little girls love to have pretty hair, and parents and grandparents can spend hours trying to achieve the best styles for their daughters. This book gives an insider’s look at how to make the task trouble-free and fun for …
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite is a lifestyle guide for the Francophile and the Anglomaniac, the gourmet and the style maven, the armchair traveler and the art lover. It’s an homage to the esoteric world of glamour that doesn’t require much spending but makes us feel rich. Taking a cue from the exotic encyclopedias of the sixteenth century, which …
The First Book of Fashion: The Book of Clothes of Matthaeus and Veit Konrad Schwarz of Augsburg
This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the social ladder through fastidious management of self-image. These bourgeois dandies’ agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did …