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"Make-up, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices. Lisa Eldridge, one of the world's foremost make-up artists--with a very large and loyal public following of her own--has written the first real history of the subject. Face Paint will explore the reasons behind make-up's use, the actual materials employed and manufactured...
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wrote this book to in order to provide the history and some leadership to an industry in the African American community that was once a pillar of economic security, back in the day. My story begins from the days of Pierre Toussaint, America's first African American to make a successful business as a hair and beauty hairstylist.
When I look at the Hair and Beauty industry as a whole I see a troubling concern about the future for the American professional...
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Newsweek's Favorite Books of 2014Praise for Sam Savage: Winner of the O. Henry Prize for "Cigarettes""Sam Savage manages to be both artful and literal-minded in this faux autobiographical tale of childhood and a mother afflicted and finally driven mad by her wish for artistic success. Savage writes knowingly about the uncertainties of childhood memory, but creates a convincing world of sibling combat and adult pretension. A wonderful, absorbing novel....
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