Download or read book The Allure of Beauty written by Karen Durbin and published by Assouline Books & Gifts. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of Hollywood's legendary actresses from the 1930s to the present, Assouline, together with Elle magazine, presents The Allure of Beauty: Women in Hollywood. From Marilyn Monroe and Marlene Dietrich to Anita Ekberg and Julia Roberts, each page of this vibrant anthology radiates with provocative images of unforgettable faces and moments that have forever changed the place of women in Hollywood - as well as in our culture. Elle magazine film critic Karen Durbin delves into the history of Hollywood, highlighting females who have proven their femininity, strength, and talent. The glitzy narrative accompanies a carefully researched, sexy selection of photography that captures the individuality of each women. AUTHOR: Karen Durbin is the film critic for Elle magazine and contributor to The New York Times Sunday Arts & Leisure section, for which she created and writes a regular feature on breakthrough performances in forthcoming movies. She was the film critic of Mirabella magazine and editor in chief of The Village Voice. ILLUSTRATIONS 100 illustrations *

Download or read book Allure Confessions of a Beauty Editor written by Linda Wells and published by Bulfinch. This book was released on 2006-10-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with "Allure" magazine's 15th anniversary, the editor-in-chief shares the best tips, tricks, and secrets she has acquired on the job.

Download or read book Beauty Will Save the World written by Brian Zahnd and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zahnd issues a challenge to Christians to discover new vitality through re-envisioning, reimagining, and reforming the church according to the pattern of the cruciform. Using stories from the lives of St. Francis of Assisi and from his own life, he teaches believers to stay on the journey to discover the kingdom of God in a fuller, richer way.

Download or read book Blowing My Way to the Top written by Jen Atkin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An inspiring guide for how to go from dreamer to do-er, from someone who’s been there, done that and wrote the book on it.” —Chrissy Teigen, New York Times bestselling author of Cravings and Cravings: Hungry for More “If you want to start a successful business, and do it in style, get this book and learn from its wise and empowering lessons.” —Mindy Kaling, New York Times bestselling author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? and Why Not Me? From entrepreneur and celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin comes a smart and spirited guide to finding your voice and creating the life and career you deserve—along with a behind-the-scenes look into Jen’s own wild and wonderful road to success. Hailed by the New York Times as “the most influential hair stylist in the world,” Jen Atkin is a celebrated businesswoman, influencer, and stylist and friend to A-list celebrities like the Kardashian-Jenners and Chrissy Teigen. But Jen’s success didn’t arrive overnight. Her glamorous, jet-setting lifestyle came from years of hard work, humility, and hustle. In Blowing My Way to the Top, Jen shatters the illusion of effortless, instant success that permeates social media to reveal the sweat, dedication, and drive it really takes to make it. In this inspiring, insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny book, Jen chronicles her remarkable journey and shares what she’s learned along the way. From growing up in a conservative Mormon community where girls were discouraged from pursuing their ambitions, to striking out on her own and finding success on the celebrity style circuit, to building the cult-status brand OUAI—Jen reveals with refreshing candor the lessons, mistakes, and memorable moments that have paved her road to success. Jen also offers insight into the values that have allowed her to thrive in the modern, digital landscape, including the importance of creating authentic content, investing in community, and building social conscious into the ethos of a business. And as a trailblazer in a male-dominated industry, Jen speaks frankly about the challenges she’s faced and provides crucial advice for other women, from the importance of running your business like a feminist to building camaraderie amid the competition to learning to navigate the work and life issues that impact women most. At the end of the day, Jen has one simple message: If I can do it, you can too. Blowing My Way to the Top is destined to become the must-read career guide for a new generation, empowering readers everywhere with the permission to dream big—and the tools to make those dreams a reality.

Download or read book The Allure of Beauty written by Emma K. and published by Xspurts.com. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the captivating exploration of beauty and its profound impact on society with "The Allure of Beauty: Understanding the Mind of a Beautiful Woman". This in-depth study provides readers with an intriguing view of beauty, from its historical and cultural implications to its psychological and sociological effects. Starting with an understanding of the concept of beauty, the book navigates through the historical and cultural influences on beauty standards and the psychological perspective on beauty. It elucidates the power and privileges conferred by physical attractiveness, delving deeply into the intriguing phenomenon of the 'beauty premium' and its influence on social success. This thought-provoking title also introduces readers to the personality traits of attractive women, drawing on psychological concepts such as the Halo Effect, to reveal how confidence, self-esteem, empathy, and compassion play a significant role in their personas. The book is also an eye-opener on the pursuit of beauty, discussing the societal pressures, cosmetic surgeries, and eating disorders often associated with it. It lays bare the impact of perception of beauty on mental health, touching upon issues such as body dysmorphia and self-image.The discussion on the sexualization of beauty ensues with an introduction to the objectification theory, emphasizing its impact on mental well-being. As the narrative progresses, unconventional beauty is spotlighted, acknowledging the importance of diversity and the crucial role of media in shaping beauty standards. Exploring the complex areas of interpersonal attraction and relationships, the book discusses the stereotypes, the role of socioeconomic status, and other factors that influence our perceptions. Beauty in the workplace is another captivating topic covered, exposing the hidden biases and manipulations that often surround this notion. The narration concludes on a powerful note of body positivity and self-acceptance, emphasizing the importance of positivity and self-love. Focusing on empowerment through beauty, the book also explores the themes of feminism, freedom, inner beauty, and aging gracefully. "The Allure of Beauty: Understanding the Mind of a Beautiful Woman" is not just a mere exploration but a compelling guide that empowers readers to embrace and appreciate beauty in all its forms and manifestations. This book will leave you pondering, empathizing, and most importantly, understanding the mind of the beautiful woman like never before.Get your copy now, and embark on this enlightening journey of unravelling the allure of beauty.

Download or read book Beauty Imagined written by Geoffrey Jones and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how today's global giants grew. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built brands which shaped perceptions of beauty, and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty, and its association with a handful of cities, notably Paris and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into China, Russia, and India, but at the same time, these brands are having to respond to a far greater diversity of cultures and lifestyles as new markets are opened up worldwide. In the twenty first century, beauty is again being re-imagined anew.

Download or read book Diverse Beauty written by Alexi Lubomirski and published by Damiani Limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England-born, New York-based photographer Alexi Lubomirski has become an established name within the fashion industry, shooting for such publications as Harper's Bazaar, Vogueand GQ, and working with cover stars such as Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lopez and Nicole Kidman, to name but a few. It was after shooting Lupita Nyong'o, however, that Lubomirski was struck by the homogeneity of the subjects he'd been hired to shoot professionally. Often when he submitted a list of models he was interested in shooting, responses would range along the lines of "we love her, but...," "her hair is a problem," "she is too dark" or "she is too light to make a statement." In Diverse Beauty, Lubomirski aims to move beyond the underrepresentation of women from a range of ethnicities in fashion media. The volume compiles his photographs of beautiful women of every color, size, age and sexual orientation in a celebration of beauty that adds dimension to the standards so omniscient in Western fashion magazines and advertisements. This handsome volume of cinematic fashion portraiture--featuring such subjects as Lupita Nyong'o, Rashida Jones, Salma Hayek, Demi Lovato, Anja Rubik, Jennifer Lopez, Chanel Iman, Hari Nef, Isabella Rossellini, Tyra Banks and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, among many others--is also a small step in the direction of changing societal norms.

Download or read book Holistic Beauty from the Inside Out written by Julie Gabriel and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated author of The Green Beauty Guide Julie Gabriel presents a comprehensive yet simple book that brings all four corners of the natural beauty paradigm together: natural skincare, holistic nutrition, stress-relief, and healthy lifestyle. A holistic nutritionist, Gabriel teaches her reader how to 'eat yourself beautiful' using building blocks from a wholesome diet, and as a long-time beauty writer and editor, reveals why beauty-boosting changes to our everyday lifestyles are essential in helping us to discover the allure we are looking for. Holisitic Beauty from the Inside Out claims that true beauty radiates from inner physical and emotional harmony. Our body is equipped with a full set of tools to maintain and restore our intrinsic assets, and has enormous healing powers to rejuvenate our skin, hair, and nails. The book includes handy and straightforward lists of what products to avoid, what foods to eat, and natural recipes to use for skincare.

Download or read book Painting the Allure of Nature written by Susan Bourdet and published by North Light Books. This book was released on 2003-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to painting birds and flowers in watercolor, discussing tools, prepration, color, and application skills; explaining how to find and use ideas from nature; examining basic and specific watercolor techniques; and including four detailed step-by-step demonstrations.

Download or read book Allure written by Diana Vreeland and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary fashion maven Diana Vreelandat the urging of her editor Jackie Oauthored a classic volume in the 1980s on the quality of "allure" in fashion and in life. Now back in print, this new edition features a foreword from the incomparable fashion designer Marc Jacobs. Throughout Allure, Vreeland lends her famous knack for turning a phrase to an astonishing array of fashion, celebrity, and fine art photographs. Featuring images of such luminaries as Maria Callas, Gertrude Stein, and Marilyn Monroeshot by superstar photographers such as Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, and Richard AvedonAllure is poised to deliver Vreeland's unparalleled point of view to a whole new generation.

Download or read book The Allure of Fungi written by Alison Pouliot and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links between the terrestrial organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives – those of mycologists and ecologists, foragers and forayers, naturalists and farmers, aesthetes and artists, philosophers and Traditional Owners. It explores how a history of entrenched fears and misconceptions about fungi has led to their near absence in Australian ecological consciousness and biodiversity conservation. Through a combination of text and visual essays, the author reflects on how aesthetic, sensate experience deepened by scientific knowledge offers the best chance for understanding fungi, the forest and human interactions with them.

Download or read book You are Beautiful written by Ken Paves and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers tips and techniques to find a unique personal beauty, from how to blow dry hair the right way and timing the next trim to choosing the bang and how to look good when pressed for time.

Download or read book The Beauty Myth written by Naomi Wolf and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."

Download or read book Compelling Allure written by Princess Hester and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is filled with experiences and life lessons that are relatable to anyone who has experienced trauma. Have you ever wondered how you were going to overcome the pain and worry? This memoir shares life experiences, which is based around trauma, grief, anxiety and depression. Be empowered and willing to allow your experiences to shape you and not break you. You are worth it and it's time to embrace the you, which you deserve to become.This memoir will motivate you to strive and be the best you. Princess used eleven principals that she discovered throughout her journey; that will empower you to find the beauty in life even when it gets ugly. *Love your trauma and find the beauty within the ugly *Understand your truth and embrace it *Get unused of the old you and step into your purpose that God has called you to beHer motivation, perseverance, compassion and encouraging words will have a positive impact in your life's growth. Be inspired and uplifted.

Download or read book The Allure of Horses written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this technically versatile tome, photographer Uli Weber shows his prowess behind the lens, mixing fine portraiture and reportage with animal and sport images in a wide spectrum of fine photographic craftsmanship. The majority of these stunning images were shot over the past six years at various manors and estates around Great Britain, as well as at the yearly Smithfield Horse Fair in Dublin. In a unique examination of the close relationship between humans and horses, The Allure of Horses takes readers on a journey across equine communities from the steeplechase to the thrill of the polo field to sidesaddle riding through the countryside on a warm summer's eve.

Download or read book Beyond Binaries written by John C. Lamothe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title This books examines representations and experiences of trans and nonbinary identities in a variety of contemporary cultural contexts including media, religion, sports, race, film, performance, and literature. Mixing auto-ethnographies and supportive scholarship, the contributors to this volume deliver a global perspective on the accomplishment that have been made alongside the challenges that members of the LGTBQIA+ community continue to face.

Download or read book Validated written by Val Garland and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Val Garland, the fashion industry's leading makeup artist, explores her career highlights and the inspiration behind her most memorable work. She talks for the first time about working with cultural icons including Kate Moss, Edward Enninful, Nick Knight, Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano, and more. Structured around key themes from Val's work, from raw to color chaos, sexy to savage, the book is packed with campaign and catwalk photography, magazine covers, and backstage pictures as well as anecdotes and quotes from leading industry figures. Validated is a must-have for fashion lovers, industry professionals, makeup artists, and followers of Val Garland.