Face with a Heart: Mastering Authentic Beauty Makeup

I'm not sure I can adequately convey how helpful this book is. I read it over the weekend and today, for the first time in my life, I felt completely confident that I had correctly applied my makeup. And 12 hours after I'd applied it, it was still in place and looking perfect. I've read many other books and watched lots of tutorials (about 30 years' worth), but nothing makes as much sense or is as easy to understand as Face with a Heart. Certainly for me, no other guide has netted such immediate and obvious improvement in my proficiency. The system Chris Scott has devised is entirely unique, utterly logical, supremely effective, and has forever changed the way I do my makeup, and the way I feel about the result.

The best makeup application book ever!!! Everything is explained, and if you do the techniques used you really do notice a difference and get a professional look, although some techniques required some practice for me I see such a huge difference and feel comfortable doing anyone up. This book is worth every penny and then some! Although I have hundreds of great makeup artistry book, and feel like many of them have taught me a lot , I feel this book has made the biggest impact on makeup I do for others, it is the book I am choosing to teach my granddaughter from. If you are serious about doing makeup for others professionally, this is a must for your book library, you will REALLY understand the lines of the eyes and the face, which like I said can truly make an amazing difference.

This an awesome makeup book. The techniques are sound and easy to follow. I must have 50-100 makeup books and this is my favorite-yes, even better than Kevin Aucoin! (Kevin's book are lush, but not too much insider info.) There are little tips and tricks I have never read in another book (how to properly apply color corrector, how to "Bambi" the eye for example) The only down side is that there are typos and spacing issues. Still worth it though.

This was a fairly good book--I'm not a makeup artist, just a layman. As a "mature" woman, I can't carry off gobs of makeup or extreme styles (heavy layers of makeup and glittery looks accentuate wrinkles--older women have to go easy to look their best!) It's really best for younger women. But I did find useful information and I like the approach.

Unlike the Bobbie Brown books, Christopher Hopkins' book, and the Makeup Wakeup, this book gives clear and concrete instructions on how to apply makeup: specific techniques that, with the help of the free accompanying YouTube videos, you will be able to apply. He does not get into specifics for particular issues beyond skin tone, but the basic technique and method for mapping the face apply to all faces, whatever age or shape.

Eh.... I keep forgetting I even have this. I guess I need to stop buying digital copies.

Great book! I've been using the techniques in this book for a few months now. I'm surprised every day with the compliments I receive --I.e., my skin looks brighter, I look much younger, even that I look beautiful. I'm only sorry I didn't understand before how to put my efforts to better use. It's much more satisfying to put on makeup now. Also, I don't look like I'm wearing too much makeup. I have a casual, natural look. Great book. I especially like the specific techniques, the overall principles to them, the best brushes to buy and what step are ok to skip if I'm short on time. BTW, I've purchased some products from the author's website and they're better priced than I've found elsewhere and the quality is great.

Really well written and informative book. Love his different approach. The complementary videos are awesome! I learned a lot! Maybe I missed it but the only thing I didn't see was how to chose eye shadow colors. Perhaps this will require a whole new book....which I'll buy immediately!

I loved this manual and found it easy for a non makeup artist to follow. I adore using make up at my 64 years young and this book has given me some great techniques for a beautiful natural make up application. You are never too old to look beautiful wearing makeup.

The best book of makeup! It explain all about how to put and why.... That's the important think the author says. Before I bought. This book I read and preview others and this is the one I was looking for, because it talk about the art of makeup, most like the perfect number, the natural symmetry (not literally, but kidda). Is simple perfect.

For the price and with the glowing reviews on Amazon.com I'm pretty shocked at how little is in this book. One whould think there is something revolutionary contained within whereas it's 'big reveal' is basic contouring explained in a needlessly convoluted manner. There is nothing in here that could not be Googled and some of the 'tips' (like rubbing lipstick into the lips to make the pigment go under the skin) are a bit weird. I gave it two stars instead of one because you might learn something about basic application if you knew absolutely nothing beforehand.

This has lots of good tips and will keep me reading for a while, I'm glad I purchased this book.

Very usefull, good images, nice explaination, great youtube tutorials. It made me realize what I was doing wrong on my technique.