By Chloe Schneider
Dying to know how to achieve that sexy smoky eye without looking like Lindsay Lohan after a big night? Need to know the way to get that perfect pink pout? The best place to find professional secrets is straight from the horse’s mouth.
Given all the money we spend on make-up, it is well worth purchasing a make-up manual. Professional tips and tricks will help you make the most of what you’ve got and inspire you to change your look and have fun with make-up.
To save you time browsing, we’ve narrowed the selection down to our three favourites so you know which to choose from. Our pick? All three! Between them, no make-up question will go unanswered!
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Bobbi Brown: Makeup Manual
Bobbi Brown has over 25 years experience in the beauty industry and released this manual “to serve as a complete rescue guide for everyone who wants to know about beauty and make-up”.
This manual is split into two sections: Basics and Artistry. We love the memorable moments and legends chapter and the section on ‘The Beauty of Diversity’ which shows how to work with the features, skin-tone and bone structure your heritage has blessed you with.
Try Bobbi Brown’s Makeup Manual for an all-encompassing beauty bible for everyone from the complete novice to the professional.
Napoleon Perdis: Forever Flawless
Rescu. favourite Napoleon Perdis recently released his manual, saying “”I have been a working makeup artist for 20 years… I’ve finally brought all my knowledge and advice together in one invaluable tome.”
Perdis’ manual focuses on how to look great at every age with chapters including ‘teen commandments’ all the way to the ‘no-surgery facelift’.
“A beauty routine shouldn’t be something we are shackled to,” says Napoleon Perdis. “it should be a daily ritual that is luxurious, liberating and rejuvenating.” Truer words have never been spoken! Go to Napoleon Perdis’ Forever Flawless for tips on how to look your most fabulous at every age.
Rae Morris: Makeup The Ultimate Guide
With 15 years in the industry, four Australian Make-up Artist of the year awards and celebrity clients such as Cate Blanchett, Naomi Campbell and Pink, you know you can trust Morris when it comes to make-up.
Gorgeous full-page glossy photographs by Steven Chee make this manual a work of art worth purchasing even without the tips!
It is simply stunning with more high-fashion looks than those in seen Perdis or Brown’s manuals.
We have this guide on our shelves for more creative, special occasion make-up tips.
If you love all things beauty make sure to check out RESCU’s how to videos where Stephen Gaskett, National Makeup artist for Elizabeth Arden, gives us his tricks of the trade. Head to Stephen Gaskett’s Rescu. page here.
