The Naked Face: The Essential Guide to Reading Faces [Paperback]

Lailan Young (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1994

Can she be trusted? Is this the right person for the job? Does he really love me?

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Just as you've gotten to where you no longer associate close-set, beady eyes with criminals, along comes this book purporting to tell how to read faces. Young goes into great detail about attributes like eye color (intense blue or green means a "frantic, creative sexual appetite"), ears (long = shrewdness), and noses (an "absolutely straight ridge" means a "tidy mind"). As much fun as face-reading is for people-watching and acquaintance-analyzing, Young suggests its techniques be used for evaluating prospective employees and determining the existence of true love in a significant other. A check of local rights laws might be in order before overtly incorporating face-reading in your employee-screening process, but Young certainly provides the background and plenty of illustrations for learning the techniques. Based on "all the latest psychological and physiological information," his book promises to give you a "hidden edge in human relationships." The first 12 chapters explain methodology, while the last examines six famous faces: Princess Di, Gerard Depardieu, the Mona Lisa, Luciano Pavarotti, Marilyn Monroe, and Bill Clinton. (Guess who has the most intense green or blue eyes?) Mike Tribby

Product Details

• Paperback: 234 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press (May 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312110332
• ISBN-13: 978-0312110338
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #853,614 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly Accurate, February 3, 2002

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This review is from: The Naked Face: The Essential Guide to Reading Faces (Paperback)

I had this book, loaned it to someone and didn't get it back -- so am ordering another copy of it. The illustrations are easily "read," the writing clearly understood, and analyzing friends' and relatives' pictures, extremely perceptive and correct! In analyzing my own face, I found it to be so accurate that I was a bit taken aback. I'd certainly recommend it!

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative, fascinating and hauntingly compelling., June 26, 1999

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This review is from: The Naked Face: The Essential Guide to Reading Faces (Paperback)

I was enthralled with the unnerving accuracy the book gave me about my friends, associates and even myself. To this day I am amazed how facial characteristics parlay themselves into behavioral traits that betray, captivate and sometimes seduce the unenlightened observer.

5.0 out of 5 stars Prepare to be amazed, February 26, 2010

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This review is from: The Naked Face: The Essential Guide to Reading Faces (Paperback)

I had this book when I was younger and I used to read my friends and family's face. It was very fun and entertaining to discover all the hidden secrets about others around you. This book came up missing and it took me 10 years to locate it again. Now that I have it back in my possession, memories from when I were younger are beginning to come back to me and I cannot wait to have fun all over again. When you get this book, you will NOT be dissapointed.