Growing More Beautiful an Artful Approach to Personal Style [Perfect Paperback]

Jennifer Robin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2008

Growing More Beautiful is a lively, buoyant resource for projecting your essence with creativity and flair. Jennifer Robin's paint box of practical tips, inspiring illustrations, helpful worksheets, and fresh personal insights will open your senses to the beauty of both your inner life and outward appearance, and help make getting dressed a daily act of creation. Image consultant, artist, and author, Jennifer Robin ties it all together in this stunning new book that will help you look and feel more beautiful as you grow into the person you were always meant to be. And, the elements of making art touched on in the book, including principles of design, will help with any creative endeavor, whether it's painting or creating an outfit.

With her new book, Growing More Beautiful, artist and image consultant Jennifer Robin has given women a generous, much-needed gift. This is not your basic how-to beauty book. This is a celebration. Of you. And if you haven't felt much like celebrating when it comes to your own unique beauty, you're in for a wonderful surprise, to say the least. By the time you finish reading, you are likely to feel nothing less than transformed.

Women everywhere can now breathe a sigh of relief: Growing More Beautiful doesn't focus on How to Look Younger. It encourages women to explore and illuminate their unique beauty and style at any age. Artist and Image Consultant Jennifer Robin takes a refreshing approach with expert advice that's both reassuring and generous; her enthusiasm for playing with color, clothing, make-up, and jewelry is downright contagious. Readers will find shopping more accessible, less confusing, and a lot more fun. She has filled her book with gorgeous images, including her own paintings, so that each page is as inspiring to look at as it is to read.

Editorial Reviews

Review

With her new book, Growing More Beautiful, artist and image consultant Jennifer Robin has given women a generous, much-needed gift. Much more than a basic how-to beauty book, this is a celebration. Of you. Delight in this lively, buoyant resource guide to projecting your essence with creativity and flair. Jennifer Robin's color, clothing, jewelry, and make-up expertise, combined with her amazingly vibrant spirit, take you by the hand and point you in the direction of something truly amazing. It's you...as you've never quite seen yourself before. --LA Splash Magazine

About the Author

ABOUT JENNIFER ROBIN: Jennifer Robin is a longtime freelance fashion consultant, color advisor and exhibiting artist. Since 1984, she has owned and operated Clothe Your Spirit, an image consulting firm based in Petaluma, California. Jennifer's new book Growing More Beautiful: An Artful Approach to Personal Style is the first and only major book about fashion and beauty ever written by an artist. It is a lively and buoyant resource guide to projecting your essence with creativity and flair and was just released in Feb, 2009. Her well-received first book, Clothe Your Spirit, published in 1988, is a comprehensive guide to dressing for self expression. She publishes a column on fashion and personal style at her blog, growingmorebeautiful.com/column/.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Arteful Press; First edition (February 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0981732208
• ISBN-13: 978-0981732206
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #467,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jennifer Robin is the author of the award winning new book, Growing More Beautiful: An Artful Approach to Personal Style. Her earlier book, Clothe Your Spirit: Dressing for Self Expression, published in 1988, launched her twenty year career as a fashion stylist. She is recognized in her field for her innovative use of color and design and she is also a respected visual artist and exhibiting painter. Jennifer combines her consultant's expertise with her artist's understanding that an authentic inner life is a deep, rich source of beauty. In addition to her newly released book, Jennifer reaches out to her readers in a myriad of ways - through her articles, blog, and newsletter, as well as through her many speaking engagements. With her background in theater and vibrant personality, she leads popular workshops based on the principles of Growing More Beautiful.

Committed to changing the way women see themselves, she is on a mission to banish the idea of being a "before" in need of a make-over; instead encouraging readers to discover how art and design make women of all ages more beautiful. She currently lives in the beautiful Sonoma Wine Country with her husband "Bathing Suit Jerry" and her collie Lucky.

Customer Reviews

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27 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Other Customer Reviews Misled Me, June 19, 2009

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Assunta Sciarretta (Suburbia, USA) - See all my reviews
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The nicest part of this book is the cover. It's pretty, inspiring. The book itself is just so-so as a style book. I don't think it's going to help me grow more beautiful. The author plainly states within the book that her aim is not to present another formulaic makeover book, but I think the title and descriptions I read prior to purchase said otherwise.

If you want a rah-rah, you're beautiful, be yourself, be authentic sort of chat with your mom or best girlfriend, this is the book for you. If you're seeking to improve your appearance by taking concrete steps - and still be your true self, I would look to some of the other style books out there, like Isaac Mizrahi's How to Have Style, The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style: How to Wear Iconic Looks and Make Them Your Own, or Garza and Lupo's Life in Color: The Visual Therapy Guide to the Perfect Palette--for Fashion, Beauty, and You!, or Color Me Younger.

Sorry, ladies, I can't recommend this one.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I am Growing More Beautiful, May 14, 2009

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C. Martin (LaJolla, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a book for every woman -- no matter what age, nationality or type.

It truly speaks to every woman.

I am very visual and for me to see the colors and read the descriptions brought this book to life.

It inspired me to get my own "rack" and start putting together those "cute little outfits" that Jennifer talks about. I will confess I am a buy-one-thing-at-a-time shopper and I usually end up with tops and bottoms and no outfits.

Reading this book really made me want to dress more beautifully and as a result - I feel more beautiful.

This is a "must" investment for any woman who wants to radiate her inside beauty to the outer world.

Thank you Jennifer for giving so much of yourself in the writing and designing of this truly Beautiful Book.

Carole Martin -- LaJolla, CA

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and inspiring way to discover yourself, December 24, 2010

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Galya Jazz "Merchant of Light" - See all my reviews

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I bought this book along with the Lucky Shopping Manual to see how other people create wardrobes, and learn a thing or two from them. It turned out that this book is written by a very deep and mature person whose impact is huge. I was turning pages: colors that relate to my inner being, colors in nature, collages, energy management, and practical tools for creating my personal style--everything was valuable.

The collage theme... When I made my first collage inspired by this book, it was not for clothes but for a love relationship. I experienced true therapy: images that deeply touched me popped up in magazines. I sorted them while feeling and thinking of what drew my attention to them. It helped to understand my true desires, values and my true nature. I glued them on paper. Now it is on the wall inspiring me to look further for somebody who is my true match.

We created a team collage in our company. It is a source of inspiration and shows what every team member wants deep inside for the company. I noticed I am highly motivated not only by the images I chosen myself but also by those brought in by my colleagues. (However, be gentle and respectful since the collage is a sensitive and revealing tool for team building and planning, not superficial.) While the book does not say any word about business, I highly recommend it for women building their businesses.

Now, six months later, I am creating my wardrobe collage and discovering myself. It makes it easy to go out and buy clothes that I finally love to wear.

The book contains practical tools related to building a rewarding and highly functional wardrobe, great budget considerations, a good note on accessories and the third element for any garment, nice pictures, and good paper. It touches energy management for fragile women (several valuable paragraphs). My friend is reading this book right now. She says that many years of her struggle with choosing the right clothes and style came to an end. She is discovering her style, her colors, and her way of expressing herself.

The most stunning experience from this book is its huge inspiring energy. This energy has become a turning point for me towards greater creativity.