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How Not to Look Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10 Years Younger, 10 Pounds Lighter, 10 Times Better
written by Charla Krupp
Studio : Springboard Press
by Springboard Press
Publisher : Springboard Press
Released : 2008-01-02
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780446581141
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 167 reviews)
List Price : $25.99
Our Price : $14.50
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Product Description |
Forget getting older gracefully--This is the beauty and style bible every woman has been waiting for!HOW NOT TO LOOK OLD is the first--ever cheat sheet of to-dos and fast fixes that pay-off big time--all from Charla and her friends, the best hair pros, makeup artists, designers, dermatologists, cosmetic dentists and personal shoppers in the biz. Packed with eye-opening details on hair color, brows, lipstick, wrinkle-erasers, jeans, shapewear, jewelry, heels, and more, the book speaks to every woman: from low maintenance types who don't want to spend a fortune or tons of time on her looks to high maintenance women who believe in looking fabulous at any price. There's also too-old vs. just-right before and after photos, celebrity examples of good and bad style, shopping lists of Charla's brilliant buys in fashion and beauty products, coveted addresses of "Where the top beauty pros go," fun sidebars--and more.
Known to national audiences from her ten years on NBC's Today show, style expert Charla Krupp dishes out her secrets in this "ultimate" to-do list for looking hip and fabulous -- no matter what your age. |
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Very depressing... |
I'm really bothered that this is the type of book that women in their late 30's and up are looking to for advice. I ordered the book hoping that it would somehow be a 'big girls' book, but it's nothing more than the dozens of shallow women's magazines that I simply can't relate to either.
Nothing is going to make me look 18 again and I refuse to waste my precious life trying to look younger. At this point in my life I feel that I have earned the right to wear the clothes that I like, not what some designer tells me is in fashion this season.
And as for the hair color advice - I recently stopped lightening my hair and I feel so liberated! It's completely natural with just a few gray hairs popping out here and there. It's so nice to not have to be a slave to getting my hair done, worrying about it being dry from the chemicals, and what my husband of 22 years would think if I went natural. He LOVES it, comments on it all the time and says he's always told me that he loves the earthy way that I dress and how my hair now compliments my overall look.
Ladies, please don't fall for this book. Not all of us live in LA and we should be thankful for that. We should be allowed to celebrate who we are as we grow older, not waste our time fighting it.
I gave the book a generous 2 stars only because it was professionally organized and photographed. |
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Attention Women: How Not to Look Old |
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Book Review: How Not to Look Old by Charla Krupp
Seen on the New York Times BestSeller List is How Not To Look Old by Charla Krupp. Ms. Krupp has done more than a hundred style segments on the Today show. She also has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Dateline NBC, and Good Morning America, and she's been a regular on The E! channel and the Home Shopping Network. The former executive editor of Shop Etc. magazine, Charla was the beauty director at Glamour, senior editor at InStyle, and beauty editor at People: Style Watch. She currently writes a fashion column for More magazine.
How Not To Look Old is Charla Krupp's aesthetic advice for aging women in a hip modern world. She provides fast and simple ways to look 10 years younger, lighter and better using the tools and knowledge of her trade, combined with celebrity examples.
Feeling good about yourself is part of being healthy. How we see ourselves does impact our mental well being. One cause for concern to women around age 40 and up is lip and chin hair. Charla writes, "Everywhere you want hair, it's thinning. Everywhere you don't want hair, it's growing. During menopause when hormone levels are in flux, many women notice more hair than usual on the upper lip and chin. Nothing looks more OL {Old Lady} than a mustache and chin hairs, so they must be removed immediately--but how?"
Old fashioned home methods like shaving are effective and inexpensive. Charla writes, "Contrary to popular belief, it will not cause hair to grow in any faster, but it will create stubble, which can feel coarse." Other home remedies include tweezing, home waxing, sugar hair removal, and depilatories.
Waxing completed by a professional is effective, but the cost is a little higher--around $7-$20 for each area (lip, chin, brow).
Electrolysis, widely practiced in the 1970's and 1980's eliminates hairs one at a time, requiring several sessions. This method should be considered for only a few adamant hairs. The cost is approximately $25 per area per session.
The best hair reduction procedure today for women with hair darker than their skin tone is done by laser. The laser weakens hundreds of hair follicles in one session using heat. Usually 5-7 sessions (a full course of treatment) are necessary to impair the follicles. However, hairs dormant during treatment may grow in at a later time.
What about the pain caused by the laser? Pain may be lessened by using a numbing cream an hour before the treatment. Ask the doctor for a prescription prior to the session.
What are the risks? Risks include being burned. This field is unregulated, so look for a doctor, nurse, or physician's assistant who has had extensive practice with your skin tone. Charla Krupp recommends experience to be equivalent to hundreds of procedures.
How much does it cost? The chin, lip, and brow are separate areas. On average, Charla Krupp writes, each area is $200 per session per area, and 5-7 sessions are needed.
For a healthier, happier, more aesthetic life, take a look at How Not To Look Old.
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Interesting but incomplete |
I enjoyed reading the book - it has some great ideas, but you really should use your own judgment and apply only those suggestions which you know will work for you.
What surprised me about the book, though, was what advice it was missing - weight control and posture. If you are overweight or underweight, you will automatically look a few years older than your age. And lousy posture will definitely age you. As we get older, our posture naturally sags (from sitting at a desk, from bad habits, from gravity and the aging process) - unless you actively work at keeping your postural muscles strong and flexible (Pilates and yoga are both excellent at this).
You can botox your face till the cows come home, wear the most expensive jeans money can buy and dye your hair blond - but if you stoop and slouch, all people will see is a botoxed, jean-clad, bleached-blonde elderly lady. |
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WARNINGS About This Book |
Basically, there's a lot of good information in this book. The author covers just about everything I was looking for, from jean color to heel height to haircolor and nail length.
And yes, as others have said, there are so many specific product, brand, store, and website suggestions, this book sometimes seems like one big ad. But . . . the author is right more often than not. I checked around and kept coming back to her suggestions.
WARNINGS:
First, if you're fifty or older, you're going to feel like an OLD broad reading a book for fortysomethings. I turn sixty on my next birthday, and have worked in Los Angeles theatre all my life. Being exposed to fashion, makeup -- the whole youth culture -- through modeling, acting, etc., I figured I could translate this book to meet my concerns, but in some cases, it just didn't happen.
Second, if you have a problem SKIN TONE, the makeup section will leave you screaming. I have very very fair skin and even "Nude Pink" lipstick/blusher/whatever turns dead purple on me. I am not exaggerating. I have a colleague who has an unusually yellowish undertone to her skin, and colors change in even stranger ways on her. I know we're not freaks because when working with theatre makeup, I've run across a lot of people who can't just, as the author instructs, buy pink lipstick (and expect it to even resemble pink when applied).
Third, the section on jeans didn't suggest specific brands that work for problem areas. There are some great ones out there, because I've found them, and don't understand why they aren't mentioned. Because the author is so big on body-shaping undergarments, I guess we're all supposed to wear Spanx under our jeans. Doesn't that defeat the idea of being able to just kick around in jeans?
I really did have some problems with sections of this book, but it was worth reading. Don't let the multitude of ads, missing info, and other annoyances stop you from reading it.
BIG FAT WARNING: Don't buy the Kindle version of this book! I did, and some of the text runs off the edges, most of the photos don't come through, and every few pages the text fades out to almost nothing. I have about fifteen books in my Kindle, and have never run into any of these problems in other books -- before or since the purchase of this one. So if you want to really use this book, buy the hard copy!
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Waste of money |
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This book was very disappointing. After trying some of the recommended products, it was clear to me that Charla was promoting products. Carmindy's books are much much better!! |
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