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Cosmogirl!

make it yourself : 50 fun and funky projects
2007
Contains step-by-step instructions for creating fifty, funky projects, including clothing, accessories, and beauty products; each labeled easy, medium, or hard for level of difficulty.

Fairy tales of Oscar Wilde

1998
Presents the fairy tales of Oscar Wilde in a comic book format.

Girl in a fix

quick beauty solutions (and why they work)
2007
Provides teenage girls with over forty solutions to beauty dilemmas, discussing split ends, rough skin, a dull complexion, bad dye jobs, smelly feet, acne, and more.

Beastly

2010
Presents a modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.

Stylin'

great looks for teens
2001
Photographs and simple instructions explain how teenage girls can achieve a variety of different hairdos and makeup looks.

Allure

confessions of a beauty editor
2006
Provides beauty advice and tips, discussing skin care and problems; makeup; hair color, cuts, style, and maintenance; salons and spas; shaving; and more.

Tyra's beauty inside & out

1998
Supermodel Tyra Banks offers advice on skin care, makeup, hair, health, fashion, alcohol and drugs, relationships, and self-esteem.

The jerk magnet

life at Kingston High
2012
When sixteen-year-old Chelsea Martin's future stepmother gives her a total makeover, she attracts all of the wrong boys and drives away many girls, but her friend Janelle keeps telling Chelsea to be true to herself, while helping her find a way to catch the eye of Nicholas, the one "non-jerk" at school.

Gorgeous

2010
Ninth-grader Allison has always been the least attractive among her sisters, but when she allows the devil to possess her cell phone in exchange for a gorgeous appearance, Allison must confront the power and deceptiveness of appearances.

Coping with the beauty myth

a guide for real girls
2003
Discusses the cultural standards of female beauty as seen in the media, and considers their potentially damaging effect on girls' self-esteem, and ways to counteract those negative effects.

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