How to Look Expensive: A Beauty Editor’s Secrets to Getting Gorgeous without Breaking the Bank is a new beauty book by beauty industry insider, Andrea Pomerantz Lustig
Andrea is Glamour magazine’s “Beauty Sleuth,” known for her wildly popular beauty advice column and her contact list bursting with the hottest beauty pros. Prior to becoming a contributing editor at Glamour, she was pioneer Editor-in-Chief at Sephora.com, and before that she spent nine years as Beauty and Fitness Director at Cosmopolitan.
In How to Look Expensive, Andrea shares her career’s worth of beauty advice and her beauty BFF contact list to reveal the exclusive tricks of the trade women need to boost their beauty confidence and look fabulously high-end—in any economy. Andrea shows women how to bridge the gap between what they want to look like and what they can afford to look like, how to upgrade their look to upgrade their life.
The book has seven chapters that cover everything from hair, skin, makeup, nails, fragrance and more with tips, techniques and images to help you get your glam on…..all on a budget! Not only will you find insider tips from A-list celebrity hair stylists and makeup gurus to couturize your hair and makeup but also highly coveted skincare advice from top notch skin docs to get a healthy, luminous complexion.
In the chapter Beautiful, Bareable Skin (my favorite, of course!), Andrea shares her personal skin care favorites like pimple fixers, facial sunscreens, anti-aging creams, exfoliators – at all price levels. She also dishes out the cult celebrity skincare secrets and money saving ways to get the same effects for less. I really liked the makeup section too in which Andrea gives us a peek inside her makeup bag with all high-end stuff and then lists the best drugstore finds to duplicate all her makeup for less than a third of the total price!
In the book, Andrea shares:
- The four NEW luxe looks and how you can achieve them.
- The top beauty tips and tricks that will upgrade any look.
- What it means to “look expensive” now (it’s not necessarily what you think!)
- The four rules of modern makeup and how to shop smart for beauty purchases.
- Cheap cosmetic secrets of expensive makeup artists.
- The makeup (or beauty) mistakes women make that cheapen their look
- How to makeover your makeup bag—for half the price
- The seven qualities of expensive looking hair color
- Princess-perfect skin on a pauper’s budget
- Affordable DIY versions of the celebrity manicure, facial, self-tan, blow-dry, red carpet makeup application stars pay gazillions for
How to Look Expensive: A Beauty Editor’s Secrets to Getting Gorgeous without Breaking the Bank ($25) is available for purchase at Amazon.com and also BarnesandNoble.com
Disclosure: This review features a sample product provided by PR for consideration only and reflects my honest opinion as always!
This looks like a must read! Thanks for sharing!