Reviews for Color Me Beautiful's Looking Your Best: Color, Makeup, and Style

The average rating for Color Me Beautiful's Looking Your Best: Color, Makeup, and Style based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-22 00:00:00 Vijeshwariee Yoganathan ~ this is available as an eBook now ~ I have this and it's not like it's a bad book but, the swatches are atrocious. Colored pencil doesn't represent crap--you need a real printed right swatch, color/solid with no white paper show thru. I was glad I didn't throw away my original when I got this as I still think it's better. it is good they put the seasonal leans in but, I don't like how they did it. It hurt things to rename all the seasons if you ask me. Especially as most people don't know the difference between soft and muted colors. Anyway, I kept it for the writing which is still great. My favorite book for the leans though (explained way better than in here) is Always In Style by Doris Pooser (the early versions not the ones that switched to tones). I will still keep this on my shelf and would still recommend it to someone who has already got a firm grasp on their season/lean. I like that there are new colors in here. I know I'm a Spring with a Winter lean but, if I didn't have a firm grasp on that I would be hard pressed to say If I was "Warm" (spring with autumn lean) or the spring-winter lean. I bought both swatch books in-fact & made my own as I felt and always do feel gyped in a tonal vs seasonal based system. This is a hybrid till she sells it to the UK girl and then it becomes full on Tonal. I really just don't think they should go away from the Seasonal Base. Pictures are still pretty :)

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-10 00:00:00 Stephen Yanikian Somehow even more dated than the original. I liked the more nuanced take on the seasonal colors, but a lot of this felt silly, such as the advice to not wear red when meeting your future mother-in-law or risk frightening her. There was also a surprising amount of 90s girl power and most of the book was aimed at helping women climb the corporate ladder in mostly male-dominated fields. Overall it felt very bossy compared to the first one, and I enjoyed it less.