The Complete Beauty Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Smart Beauty

I had two of Ms. Begoun's books...one for hair products and the other for just about everything. She proves that you don't have to spend a million dollars to look like you did. I saw her on TV and loved her attitude about buying and using products that are just as good as the more expensive ones and work just as good, if not better. I've recently given this book to a friend and she's told me that she really likes it, too.

Complete satisfaction with purchase experience.

This book helps guide you as to what you need and which one would be right for you. Very helpful for me. Now I need more time to read!

Very good bible, especially for beauty junkies

No index- very difficult to use

Love this book. Great Deal!!***

Love this book I keep it on my coffee Table for use daily

Paula Begoun's down-to-earth beauty advise is a great wakeup call for all those women out there who (understandably) buy into all the cosmetic company sales pitches about all the expensive products we need to look young and beautiful. As Paula explains, skin care can, and should, be inexpensive, basic and simple. Personally, I am very happy with the Wal-Mart Equate brand version of Cetaphil cleanser, the Equate version of Oil of Olay with SPF 15 as a daytime moisturizer/sunscreen (both under $4 each!), and the best and cheapest nighttime moisturizer ever - a light coating of plain old petroleum jelly, avoiding my nose area (I also use the petroleum jelly to remove eye makeup). Now, I don't follow Paula's advise to the letter - I ALWAYS wear waterproof mascara (sorry, but everything else runs), and I prefer to scrub my face well with the washcloth to exfoliate and cleanse rather than using my fingertips and being overly gentle - but overall, consumers would be well-advised to take heed of her ideas. The only reasons I didn't give the book 5 stars are 1) I already had a good grasp of the basic concepts of the book beforehand, so it wasn't really an earth-shattering revelation to me, although it's definitely a 5-star must-read for anyone confused by industry hype, and 2) her long list of reviews of specific makeup products is vaguely helpful (although I disagree with her negative assessment of Maybelline Great Lash Mascara), but is bound to quickly be outdated as the makeup lines constantly add new products and shades and discontinue others, not to mention the omission of some popular lines like Jane, Bonne Bell, Physicians Formula, and even Wet 'n Wild (their 99 cent eyebrow pencils are the BEST!). I would have also love to hear her assessment of some of the infomercial products like Lauren Hutton Face Disc, Bare Escentuals, Principal Secret, etc. But other than a few minor disagreements, this is highly recommended reading for any woman feeling lost and confused at the cosmetics counter.

This woman tells you not to go in the sun, cause what ever you do it always damages the skin, the nice tan, is damage, and you do not want that! huh? She tells you that in such detail....... scary. Sun fearmongering..And then in once sentence, that you need sun to prevent other damages in your body and thats it!She, as far as I red it, does not talk about protective foods or anti oxidants that also protects you from the sun.........I had bursitis by my hips, I could barely walk, you know why?? cause I had not enough sunlight on my body aka skin for years, so If I have to choose nice tan and being able to walk in stead of great skin not being able to walk aka show it off, i choose the first one anytime!!Common people use your head, stop banning the sun to fight of aging but making you sick and while you still eating all kind of legal poisons that makes you die very fast.In other words also look on the inside what you can do to look young and fresh.

Took ages to be delivered. Really disappointing