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Asian Faces

Author: Taylor Chang-Babaian

Publisher Marketing: A celebrity makeup expert shares her secrets in the first beauty guide for all Asian women. Professional makeup artist Taylor Chang-Babaian shares her beauty secrets in Asian Faces-the first beauty book created specifically to focus on the techniques and styles that enhance the skin tones and facial features of Asian women of all ages and ethnicities. This fully illustrated, step-by-step guide includes advice on: - Makeup products and tools for the right skin tone - How to work with one's face shape - The differences between day and evening makeup - Creating the illusion of flawless skin With more than 100 full-color photographs and illustrations, "Asian Faces" covers costume makeup and favorite looks from past decades with a modern edge-as well as looks from top American style meccas including New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.

Today's price: £24.95

Asian Secrets of Health, Beauty and Relaxation

Author: Sophie Benge

A beauty expert supplies all the tools for experiencing luxurious Asian beauty treatments at home, including inexpensive, easy-to-follow recipes for soothing facials, relaxing aromatherapy baths, invigorating body scrubs, healthy food and drink recipes, remedies for specific ailments, and more. 150+ full-color photos.

Today's price: £24.95

Black Britain

Author: Paul Gilroy

People of African and Caribbean descent have inhabited the British Isles for centuries. Paul Gilroy, renowned for his work exploring the social and cultural dimensions of black Britishness, has assembled a living history of black people in the British Isles. Spanning two hundred years, this collection features images of black Britons at work, at war, and at play.

Today's price: £19.99

Hairtalk

Author: Duyan James

Publisher Marketing: A braidery is more than just a shop where you get your hair done: it is a spiritual space, a meeting place, and a cross-cultural intersection, and the site where the past and present are woven together and traditions come alive. Duyan James, a Liberian native with a braidery in Washington, DC, presents a colorful, fascinating, and gorgeously photographed guide to the art. Complete with stories, folklore, and traditional hair care secrets, "Hairtalk "provides a full sense of the history of the many braiding styles that have become a staple in American culture. Pore through 51 styles for adults and nine for children--including some with synthetic and natural extensions--and learn all of the basic braiding techniques. But most importantly, James and her 12 African braiders from all over the continent provide a compelling account of the tribal meanings and ritualistic uses of each unique look, expanding the value and significance of braiding beyond mere fashion.

Today's price: £12.95

Posing Beauty:

Author: Deborah Willis

As a student in the 1970s, Deborah Willis found a lack of images of black beauty in the larger culture. Determined to redress this imbalance, Willis started a lifelong quest that has become Posing Beauty. Subjects such as Billie Holiday and Josephine Baker illuminate the past; Angela Davis and Muhammad Ali take us to the civil rights era; Denzel Washington, Lil' Kim and Michelle Obama represent the present. However, she not only celebrates the famous but also recovers a world many never knew existed. Featuring the work of more than one hundred photographers, Posing Beauty challenges our assumptions about what it means to be 'beautiful'.

Today's price: £49.95

Seen

Author: Steve Lazarides

Seen: blackstyleUK is the first publication to explore the immeasurable impact of Black subculture on British streets, dance floors, wardrobes and beauty parlours over the past three decades. It gives unique visual expression to the energy and innovation of a range of fashion trends and musical subcultures, including Ragga, drum 'n' bass, House, and UK Garage, through a wealth of unpublished images from legendary and contemporary photographers including Dennis Morris and David Swindells.

Today's price: £27.99

The Beauty of Color

Author: Iman

Publisher Marketing: Now in paperback-the beauty event of the year! Iman's full-color guide to makeup for women of every skin tone. The first beauty and make-up book to address skin tones from across the spectrum-including Latina, black, Asian, Indian, Native American, Mediterranean, and Middle Eastern, as well as multiple ethnicities-"The Beauty of Color" features: - Skin care basics with specialized beauty regimens for skin of color - Makeup 101-what you really need for every skin tone - How to create ten amazing make-up looks with easy step-by-step instructions and photos - Famous beauties, including Salma Hayek, Tyra Banks, Eva Mendes, Venus and Serena Williams, Eve, Rosario Dawson, Padma Lakshmi, Jade Jagger, Alicia Keys, and Kimora Lee Simmons - Remarkable real-life makeovers for women of every age

Today's price: £19.95

The Black Panthers

Author: Stephen Shames

In 1966, as the largely nonviolent Civil Rights movement swept through America, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the legendary Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. Revered by some and vilified by others, the party burst onto the scene with a militant vision for social change and the empowerment of African-Americans. Its methods were so controversial and polarizing that in 1968, FBI head J. Edgar Hoover described the organization as the country's greatest threat to internal security. During the height of the movement, from 1967 to 1973, photographer Stephen Shames had unprecedented access to the organization, capturing not only its public face--street demonstrations, protests and militant armed posturing--but also life behind the scenes, from private Party meetings to Bobby Seale at work on his Oakland mayoral campaign. Shames was prolific and his archive of Panther images is the largest in the world, presenting an uncommonly nuanced portrait of this dynamic social movement. Released on the occasion of the Party's fortieth anniversary, this illuminating publication gathers an astonishing collection of previously unpublished images, containing an electrifying visual history. Panther newspapers, posters and other ephemera help give the ethos of the Panthers and the transformative period of social upheaval for the whole nation.

Today's price: £35.00

The Way We Wore

Author: Michael McCollom

THE WAY WE WORE takes a unique look back at African American style moments. Utilizing personal photographs, it explores the stylish beginnings of a diverse group of African American tastemarkers, examining a time when some individuals literally pulled it all together; or, for others, a time of trial and error. This is an exploration of African American the fabulous and the faux pas.

Today's price: £40.00