Making Faces

Welcome to Making Faces, the celebrated beauty classic by Kevyn Aucoin. This digital PDF edition brings the legendary makeup artist’s step-by-step transformations straight to your screen. You can begin exploring it immediately after purchase with instant download.

Filled with detailed illustrations and photography, Making Faces covers everything from skin preparation and foundation to brows, eyes, lips, and complete character looks. Aucoin shows how makeup can enhance natural beauty and change your mood with confidence.

Book Overview

Making Faces is Kevyn Aucoin’s illustrated beauty manual, originally published by Little, Brown and Company in 1997. The book was written by Aucoin, with creative direction and illustrations by Donald F. Reuter, and it features the work of leading fashion photographers. The digital edition is based on the paperback edition published by Prion Books Ltd in 1999.

The book is aimed at anyone interested in makeup artistry, from beginners to working professionals. It encourages readers to experiment with color, texture, and shape, and it demonstrates how small changes can make a dramatic difference.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• Skincare and preparation basics, facial structure, foundation, powder, and concealer techniques.
• Shading and highlighting to sculpt and define the face.
• Guidance on brows, covering and bleaching brows, eyes, eyeliner, eyelashes, lips, and blush.
• Makeup styles including simplicity, neutral, shimmer, dramatic, colorful, glamorous, defining, softness, classical, and sensual.
• Personal transformations featuring everyday faces and family members.
• Twenty-one named looks, from the Innocent and the Vamp to the Icon and the Minimalist.
• A foreword by actress Gena Rowlands.

Why This Book Matters

Kevyn Aucoin was a makeup artist to celebrated figures such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, and Tina Turner. His work helped shape beauty and fashion imagery in the 1990s, and this book remains a reference for both professionals and makeup lovers.

Making Faces includes faces of many physical and racial types, showing that makeup is a flexible tool for personal expression. It is valued for its clear instruction and its artistic approach to beauty.

Book Details

Device Compatibility

This is a digital download, so there is no physical shipping. After purchase, you can access your PDF immediately and open it on compatible devices.

The file works with appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile phones, and PDF reading applications. You will need an internet connection only to download the file.

FAQ

How do I get access after purchase? Your PDF download is available immediately after purchase. You can download it from your account and save it to your device.

Will I receive a physical book? No. This is a digital download only. No physical copy will be shipped.

What devices are compatible? The PDF can be opened with most modern reading apps, including Kindle apps, tablets, desktops, mobile readers, and PDF programs.

Add Making Faces to your library today and explore Kevyn Aucoin’s lasting lessons in makeup artistry.