Reggie's Face Painting: Emmy Award-Winning Make-Up Artist Reveals His Beauty Secrets For African-American Women [Hardcover]

Reggie Wells (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 9, 1998

Oprah's long-time make-up artist shares his celebrity beauty secrets for African-American women. This wonderfully lavish yet practical book discusses the beauty secrets of some of America's most beautiful and popular African-American celebrities. It tells us how vocalist Leontyne Price colors her lips to enhance their glorious size and how actress Robin Givens shades her cheekbones to make them her most exquisite feature. Drawing from Wells's extensive client list, it examines the most alluring physical attributes, as well as the beauty flaws and remedies of stars such as Chaka Khan, Diahann Carroll, Oprah Winfrey, Iman, Whitney Houston, and more. Wells tells Black women which colors would best accentuate their features and offers application techniques to enable a woman to look her best at all times. Taking into consideration women with light, medium, and dark skin tones, he offers color palates for foundation, powder, blush, eyeshadow, and lipstick. Especially tailored to women of color, this informative and easy-to-use guide is a must-have for the woman who knows that with a little help she can look like a celebrity too.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Reggie Wells has created . . . a wonderful, natural-looking style of make-up that always brings out the very best in every face that he touches."--Essence

About the Author

Reggie Wells has been a make-up artist for twenty years, working with Oprah Winfrey exclusively from 1989 to 1995. His work has appeared on the cover of Essence on nearly sixty occasions and in issues of Glamour, Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Time, and Bride's. He lives in Chicago.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.; 1 edition (October 9, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805052178
• ISBN-13: 978-0805052176
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,273,043 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I hoped for!!, October 19, 1998

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Pamela L. Lee ([e-mail]) (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reggie's Face Painting: Emmy Award-Winning Make-Up Artist Reveals His Beauty Secrets For African-American Women (Hardcover)

As a certifiable make-up junkie, I am always interested when new books about Cosmetics come out. As an African-American female, I especially am interested in ones that cater specifically to me. I have to say I was dissappointed in this book. I was hoping to see more makeovers with specific how to information. This book dealt more with Mr. Wells interaction with certain celebraties than it did with makeup techniques and looks. There were really only 3 makeovers in the book, one for light complected women, medium complected women and dark skinned complected women. There were no day versus evening looks or how tos in regards to changing or updating looks.

There were also more drawings than there were actual pictures so I did not find this book to be all that helpful.

I think Mr. Wells is definitely a very talented makeup artist, I have seen his work in numerous magazines, however, this book just did not give me what I was looking for.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Porfolio, November 21, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Reggie's Face Painting: Emmy Award-Winning Make-Up Artist Reveals His Beauty Secrets For African-American Women (Hardcover)

I am happy for Mr. Wells success. However, this book is basically a portfolio of his work. There are over 100 pages of who he worked on and the book has only a few pages for 'how-tos'.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Biography and Celebrity Essay oriented, November 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Reggie's Face Painting: Emmy Award-Winning Make-Up Artist Reveals His Beauty Secrets For African-American Women (Hardcover)

Reggie Wells certainly did work hard to suceed in being a makeup artist (and has paid his dues) and is definitely skilled at his trade. I found the book interesting (you almost feel like your right there watching). The only thing is the pictures seemed just a bit dated (80s'ish). I think I would have liked to have seen more modern (90s) looks. Other than that he talks in a warm light-hearted way throughout the book. He just seems like a nice guy who has a respect for African American women's beauty.