Tally lives in a world where your sixteenth birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation which erases your flaws, transforming you from an 'Ugly' into a 'Pretty'. She is on the eve of this event, and cannot wait for her life to change. As well as guaranteeing supermodel looks, life as a Pretty seems to revolve around having a good time.

In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The author citing examples confronts the beauty industry and its advertising and uncovers the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession.

Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect. Perfectly wrong.

A fashion model with everything is disfigured in a road accident and goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being a monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. She then has to learn that reinventing herself means erasing her past and making up something better.

The good, the bad, the pretty, and the ugly. Tally's seen it all. This is the gripping conclusion to Scott Westerfeld's riveting, highly acclaimed trilogy.

In this follow-up to Making Faces , Kevyn Aucoin once again reveals his incredible transformations of famous and ordinary people, and demonstrates how anyone can have a variety of different faces . For each and every face, famous and not, he provides step-by-step instructions and illustrations.

A delightful new twist on the tale of Snow White to create a spellbinding story that at once enchants and also questions the idea that looks are everything.

Bobbi Brown is an American make-up artist who has worked on the cover models for Vogue and Cosmopolitan and for the fashion shows of top designers. This reference aims to provide basic techniques and information for women's make-up on all occasions.

Offers step-by-step directions, professional techniques and advice, insider tips, makeovers, and brand and product comparisons in a handbook that emphasizes a simple, healthy, and natural approach to beauty care.

'On Beauty' is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times.

The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty.

Set in New England mainly and London partly, this work concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps, and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some questions about what life does to love.

This is the third book from world-famous make-up artist Bobbi Brown. It provides expert advice for women of all ages on the right make-up to wear and how to apply it. Bobbi Brown encourages women to embrace the ageing process, insisting that they can look good - and feel good - whatever their age.

This beauty guide aims to help boost your self-esteem and confidence. By paying attention to the author's straightforward and useful beauty principles, you will gain a sense of control over your body, your looks and your life.

When the family business collapses, Beauty and her two sisters are forced to leave the city and begin a new life in the countryside. However, when their father accepts hospitality from an elusive and magical Beast, he is forced to make a terrible promise.

Straight-talking BBC Television style experts Susannah Constantine & Trinny Woodall reveal the secrets of looking good and offer advice on making the most of your body in this super-stylish diary format edition.

Boot camp for a younger, hipper makeover, packed with no-holds-barred advice on little beauty and fashion changes that pay off big time, from the on-air style expert for The Today Show.

The New York Times bestselling trilogy is now... a quartet. 3+1 = continued strong sales!

A completely comprehensive guide to solving all clothing and beauty dilemmas from Britain's most famous style experts.

In the tradition of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a look at the lives of women in Afghanistan through the lens of The Kabul Beauty School