Book Review: Get Positively Beautiful by Carmindy

According to a recent study, only 2% of women describe themselves as 'beautiful.' (Dove Global Study 'The Real Truth About Beauty: A Global Report', 2004) The media instructs women how to 'look ten years younger,' 'cover up wrinkles,' or 'get fuller, plumper lips.' And even makeup products play off womens' insecurities, promising to conceal perceived flaws, define cheekbones, or make eyelashes fuller and longer. The underlying message? That there's something inherently wrong with the way women look and that they have to spend time, money, and energy keeping up with all the ways they should 'fix' themselves. 

In GET POSITIVELY BEAUTIFUL, makeup artist Carmindy from TLC's hit program What Not to Wear shows you how to change your mindset from negative fault-finding to a positive beauty philosphy. You learn how to find and focus on your best features and how to combat negative thoughts about your appearance. Carmindy demonstrates easy makeup techniques for eyes, brows, lashes, lips, cheeks, and skin, and how to adapt looks to different weather conditions and 'beauty moods.

This is a self-help book about how to put on makeup but also gives you some positive quotes and also how to give yourself a positive compliment before you put on makeup. When it comes to makeup, I only put on lipbalm, BB Cream, and whatever lipstick I have in my bag these days. But after reading this book, there were a few things I was tempted to try out, but is still scared to do. Foundation? Haven't found the perfect one yet. Mascara? Fuhgeddaboutit. I'm still looking for a new one since my old one got old. But I do reconmend this book one hundered percent to someone who's either slowly but surely wanna know about makeup or just know about it but wanna feel positive about it

Book Review: The Husband List by Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly

Based on the family from the bestselling Love In A Nutshell, the story of an heiress longing to marry for love or not at all

From The New York Times bestselling writing duo Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly, comes the story of a young woman’s search for true love. Caroline Maxwell would like nothing more than to join her brother, Eddie, and his friend, Jack Culhane, on their adventures. While Jack and Eddie are off seeing the world, buying up businesses and building wildly successful careers, Caroline's stuck at home frightening off the men her mother hopes will ask for her hand in marriage.  When her mother sets her sights on the questionable Lord Bremerton as a possible suitor, Caroline struggles with her instincts and the true nature of her heart.  She longs for adventure, passion, love, and most of all . . . Jack Culhane, an unconventional Irish-American bachelor with new money and no title. A completely unacceptable suitor in the eyes of Caroline's mother. But Caroline's dark hair, brilliant eyes and quick wit have Jack understanding just why it is people fall in love and get married.

Set in New York City in 1894, The Husband List is an American gilded age romantic mystery. It evokes memories of the lavish lifestyles and social expectations of the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers—a time when new money from the Americas married Old World social prestige and privilege. Dresses by Worth, transcontinental ocean voyages, lavish parties, a little intrigue, and a lot of romance await in, The Husband List.

This book was a fun read and it didn't take me long to read it. The first time I saw this book the only thing I saw was the design of the novel. Then when I picked it up last week and started to read it, I loved it. 

It's about a girl named Caroline Maxwell who is forced to...how can I say this....be with a man she don't like but her mama does. The man in question is Lord Marcus Bermerton, aka the boring version of Chuck Bass if Chuck was from England, a lord, and BORING. But he was manipulative just like Chuck-to the point where he was hiding the fact that he killed his French wife Adele. Caroline, on the other hand, had fallen in love with Jack Culhane, a beer brewery Irishman and she wanted the adventure and she wasn't feeling Lord Borington. 

I actually enjoyed this book and I do ship Jack x Caroline and I wanna read the second book!!!

What's in My Book Purse-7/19/2013

Hey. y'all! Long time, no see, huh? Well I've been busy playing Skyrim and have been reading a LOT lately. So let's get started on this post, shall we?

From top to bottom:

1. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
2. Janet Evanovich and Dorien Kelly, The Husband List
3. Carmindy, Get Positively Beautiful
4. Bobbi Brown, Bobbi Brown Beauty

Basically, I have a feeling I'll have a lot more time blogging on here because I might have to take one class this quarter instead of the three classes I normally have. Anyway, these are the books I'm reading this month. What are you reading?