Cordingley's fascinating system helps readers initiate and build successful relationships by teaching them how to read the twelve key facial features that reveal a person's real self.
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Finding the One and Making It WorkImagine being able to tell if a man is a frog or a prince simply by looking at the shape of his nose and the size of his chin. Using a system called psycho-graphicology, Bill Cordingley contends that people with thin, long necks are especially good listeners while those with wide foreheads tend to be take-charge individuals. Although the premise of In Your Face: What Facial Features Reveal About the People You Know and Love may seem incredible, Cordingley's clear explanations and illustrations (including many of famous people) are curiously compelling. Agent, Laurie Harper.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: In Your Face : What Facial Features Reveal About the People You Know and Love (Paperback)
All of us would like to be able to 'read' a person when we first meet them, so that we can correctly predict whether this is a person we would like to work with, or not. Toward this end, mankind has always employed various tools. Intuition is the chief among these: that sense which tells us something about this other person, almost immediately, even though we don't know how we know it. Their walk, the way they hold themselves (proudly or otherwise), the way they talk, the degree to which they seem to be very 'left-brained' or 'right-brained,' all offer clues. Clues is sometimes the best we can hope for. Nothing is clad in certainty; but our intuition and these other means of 'scanning' a person do offer hints, hunches, and suggest lines of inquiry or further investigation that might fruitfully be pursued - - especially if we see, or think we see, the beginnings of something that causes us to be uncomfortable. Toward this end of 'reading people,' we are always looking for new tools, and Bill Cordingley has come up with a dusey: face-reading. This is not the old science of phrenology, or reading bumps on a head, but a new sophisticated system of observing correlations between facial features and personality characteristics that a portrait artist, a woman, developed over 40 years, from acute observation of the people she was painting. If cast into stone, as some people are bound to try, and interpreted as a series of laws: "if this......then inevitably it means that......." it will crash under its own weight. But approached as a series of new clues about a person, where a facial feature often (though not always) has such and such a meaning, it is a very interesting system indeed. For example, if I like to be with a person who likes to touch, and they have a facial feature which often means that person doesn't like to be touched, I haven't settled the question of, "Do they....or don't they?" But I have found a line of inquiry to follow, an area where I want to pay particular attention, to see what I can subsequently learn about this person regarding this particular personality trait, that can be tremendously helpful. I recommend this book for the most interesting clues that it offers, about people, starting with their faces.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Face to face with your own personality,
By A Customer
This review is from: In Your Face : What Facial Features Reveal About the People You Know and Love (Paperback)
This book is great fun to read. It's one that you will find yourself returning to often as you begin to explore the face reading principles in earnest. The content is as serious as you choose to make it - that is a point that the author makes time and time again. I appreciated the fact that Bill diligently points out to the reader that face reading alone will not guarantee you a good relationship. Time and again, he reminds us that the art of face reading will give us a good personality profile that cuts to the heart of issues like altruism, compassion for others, practicality, and the all important level of physical needs. These are areas often overlooked or masked in those early days of courtship. The rest of the story, so to speak, lies within our abilities to know who we are and what we want from our relationships. Face to face with my own face in the mirror (a practice highly recommended)gave me insights to some of the problems I have faced as I struggled with earlier relationships. Instead of feeling discouraged about my strong personality traits, I learned that the art of face reading can help me choose friends and partners with compatible traits. I commend Bill Cordingley on presenting this material in a manner that never creates in the reader's mind a snapshot of physical beauty. Instead, he hammers home the importance of looking for the balance and the integrity of the unique features we have. By the time I reached the end of this quick read, I was amazed at the number of times faces of friends and lovers flashed in front of me! Yes, that wide forehead did indeed indicate he would try to control my life! I recalled my fifth grade teacher, Sister Claire - her nose was pointed and she sure was critical! (Which, I will hasten to add, was not a bad thing at that point in my life!) Then I started to dig out the family pictures and began reading the faces of my children and their spouses - we all were delighted and intrigued with the accuracy of Bill Cordingley's technique.All in all, I highly recommend In Your Face to everyone who seeks to understand themselves and their world a little better.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
In Your Face should be in your hands!,
By Barbara (Cincinnati, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In Your Face : What Facial Features Reveal About the People You Know and Love (Paperback)
I was astonished at the accuracy of Bill Cordingley's science of face reading! In just 4 hours (the time it took me to race through the book), Bill confirmed for me my own personality traits and helped me realize why I have searched in vain for the right life partner for over 20 years. If I only knew then what I know now, I would have saved myself from some major aggravation and financial stress!The book is easy to read and understand as Bill uses his own life's experiences and references to famous faces to illustrate his points. I appreciated the illustrations and exercises provided to visually demonstrate the techniques of face reading. Bill's illustrations helped me discover that my auto mechanic is extremely detail oriented - now that's a trait I was really pleased to find! You'll return again and again to In Your Face to confirm your observations about the people you know and love and those with whom you are just getting acquainted.
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