cosmetics

Step-by-step photographic guide to applying makeup, with information on how to determine skin type, face shape, and coloring, programs for skin-care regimes, and lessons on the best colors and techniques for various skin tones, types, and facial features.

Briefly discusses the history of cosmetics and gives instructions for experiments which show how and why cosmetics such as shampoo, toothpaste, soap, and nail polish work.

Presents an overview of trends, customs, and fashions relating to the pursuit of physical beauty from ancient times to the present including such topics as body shape, clothing, cosmetics, and hair fashions.

Top cosmetic scientists from the blog TheBeautyBrains.com answer questions about everyday beauty products, discussing such topics as salon products versus store products and the pros and cons of organic products.

Explains various cosmetic treatments, and focuses on Botox, and includes a historical overview, as well as information on the dangers and benefits of various beauty treatments, including facial fillers, cellulite treatments, hair-loss, and acne drugs.

Louise and Ruby use Louise's "Deluxe Beauty Kit" to give Max a make-over, but when Grandma calls to schedule her own make-over, she makes an appointment with Max.

Offers twenty easy-to-make spa products such as bath sizzlers, lip gloss, hand creams, foot scrubs, shower gels, shampoos, and candles.

When Phoenix, Arizona, seventh-grader Sherry Baldwin hosts a makeover sleepover that causes horrible reactions in her friends' skin, she enlists the help of her mother, a ghost detective at the Academy of Spirits, to help solve the mystery of the tainted makeup.

When Massie is kicked out of her exclusive riding camp and her parents insist that she get a summer job, she becomes the highest-selling Be Pretty Cosmetics girl ever by ignoring the company's philosophy.

A brief history of make-up and other forms of body decoration, from false eyebrows made of mouse skins to fake tans.