[.ca] 911 Beauty Secrets: An Emergency Guide to Looking Great ... (ISBN 1570714460)

Very good basic beauty book:
Many beauty books include large color photos, and/or illustrations. This is a text book only, and actually this is a good thing, because it means that the book is full of so much information. It covers the beauty basics, and lots more. Attitude, style, skin care, hair care, emergency diets and so on. Not only the classic beauty chapters are included. Among the more rare ones are Seasonal beauty, Beauty on a budget and Beauty on the road. Not every aspect of beauty is addressed though. Elaborate hair styles are not included, for instance. This is a book to read if you want to learn the basics and go beyond them. I recommend you to read it from cover to cover, because there are so many good beauty tips in it that are spread all over the book. If you only read the chapter in which you think it is included, you might miss something. On the other hand, the book has a good index, so if you know what you are looking for, you will find it. I think this book will age well, because the author focuses on feeling good about yourself and finding your classic style. Even the fashion chapters will survive for a long time, since they are based on how to build a basic wardrobe (fashion accessories can always be added), combination of clothes, caring for accessories etc. The format of the book makes it very handy. Diane Irons says that "beauty is every woman's birthright" and gives every woman the means to achieve beauty - that is, every woman gets the knowledge she needs in order to make the best of what she has got. This book also inlcudes inspiration and motivation - reading it makes you feel more beautiful, already.

The Book!:
According to my opinion it's really a Book with a capital B. I'm from Europe, so it was quite difficult to find it out but it was worth the pains. I like it, I love it and it belongs to the best when I'm compairing it with other books written in this way and about these problems. And that's why I'm rating it with 5 stars. Excuse my English, it is not my mothertongue. Jana

Fantastic Beauty Book:
Diane Irons' "911 Beauty Secrets" is filled with many beauty tips, model and celebrity secrets, diets, homemade remidies and masks, and much more. Many of the tips in here are easy to follow and require no other materials besides the ones easily found at home, at the grocery store, and at the beauty supply store. Plus, the book includes fashion and shopping tips, with advice on everything from what to put in your handbag to and the clothes that will work best for you. There are many quick emergency fixes in here, such as taking care of cuts, skin burns, cold sores, etc. Plus, you will get good tips on choosing the right types and colors of cosmetics, quick beauty fixes, and more. My favorite thing about this book were the beauty masks and treatments. For example, did you know that a corn meal and papaya treatment can make the dry skin on your elbows feel super soft? Or that soaking a skin burn in milk for fifteen minutes will soothe the burn? How about using some petroleum jelly to ease the sting from a paper cut? These are just some of the marvelous beauty treatments you will find in this book. This book is a very wise purchase. Trust me, after you've bought it, you will be refering to it all the time to look your best!

Eh...:
Great information. Unfortunately, the time required to do some or all of the information included would require not having any sort of social life.

BANANAS IN YOUR BRA (AND OTHER STAR SECRETS):
Powdered milk will help exfoliate skin. Hemorrhoid ointment will help erase wrinkles. Ripe papaya and cornmeal will help soften rough elbows. Allow raw egg white to dry on your face and viola! instant face lift. Bananas packed in the bra will help firm those saggy breasts. (It has something to do with the high levels of potassium.) No, we're not making any of this up. Model/journalist/fashion and image consultant Diane Irons has gathered decades of tips and tricks, secrets and suggests in this hand softbound book, a sort of emergency guide to help all women (and men) look great at every age, size and budget. Strike when the Irons are hot!