Reddit mentions of Color Me Beautiful: Discover Your Natural Beauty Through the Colors That Make You Look Great and Feel Fabulous

I'm so happy for this thread! In American libraries, go to 646 to find cosmetics. I would totally encourage you to stop in next time you're near your local branch, because free makeup books are awesome.

Sephora's book would be great for beginners, lots of pictures, and has some product suggestions as well.

I also liked Carmindy's books for beginners or easy looks. They're easy, approachable, photo-heavy.

Paula Begoun's Beauty Bible has a very dense chapter about classic makeup and application. I definitely recommend it if you want to learn application for work, or formal or conservative situations. If you're more into fashionable and creative makeup it has less to offer there, though it's probably still worth a skim.

Color Me Beautiful (website) was the 90's classic for finding your undertone.
Life in Color by Jesse Garza is a beautiful newer book, mostly about clothes but it has a chapter on coloring and makeup. I think this one's great for learning about complementary colors.

How to Look Expensive has a fun chapter about makeup, which is not really about looking expensive. It has a couple pretty tutorials and lots of dupes.

Bobbi Brown has a new book, Everything Eyes (2014). I only flipped through it but it looked gorgeous. Check it out for applications for various eye shapes and makeup for glasses. Her books Living Beauty and Beauty Evolution are also great if you're starting with makeup in your 30s or later.

Robert Jones has a kind of specific personal style and uses a limited color palette, but I think I recall his books have a lot about contouring, eye makeup, and formal occasions/photos (edit grammar).

You can do it yourself with this book. I've found it difficult to do while shopping because the different lighting in stores has such a variable impact. Thanks to the book I know what colors do and don't work on me and it makes shopping so much easier and faster.

It's still around and still current. I was gifted it in the late 90s. Although I'm pretty pale, I'm definitely an autumn. I found although the book was geared to the workplace, it could be applied to everyday wear just as easily. It taught me that anyone can wear just about any colour, if they got the right tone (my big things were pink and pure white always looked awful, but if I went into a more salmon colour and off-whites worked so much better.

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Have you ever looked at Color Me Beautiful? It might really help.

http://www.colormebeautiful.com/seasons/findyourseason.html


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