Bobbi Brown Living Beauty

Book excerpt: On the eve of her 50th birthday, bestselling beauty-book author and cosmetics industry icon Bobbi Brown offers expert makeup tips that can redefine beauty for women in midlife, with more than 200 full-color photos illustrate her advice. Bobbi Brown, CEO of a major cosmetics company bearing her name, began the trend toward natural-looking cosmetics and has gathered a loyal fan base of top editors at elite fashion magazines, including InStyle, Vogue, Allure and Harper's Bazaar. Celebrities such as Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Susan Sarandon, and Oprah--as well as millions of "regular" women throughout the world--swear by her beauty advice. Just in time for her 50th birthday, Bobbi Brown has written THE book redefining beauty for women over 40, BOBBI BROWN LIVING BEAUTY. In this refreshing look at beauty and aging, Bobbi offers readers specific surgery-free solutions for a stunning face, showing how makeup can solve many of the "flaws" that many women go under the knife to fix. In fact, the right makeup can create glowing skin, lift the cheeks, plump the skin...and take years off a woman's face. Bobbi demonstrates how it's done. With step-by-step makeup instructions and inspiring essays by role models like Susan Sarandon and Lorraine Bracco, Bobbi Brown's natural approach to aging will enlighten and inspire women everywhere.