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Color Stories: Behind the Scenes of America's Billion-Dollar Beauty Industry

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Color Stories: Behind the Scenes of America's Billion-Dollar Beauty IndustryFor everyone who's ever slicked on lipstick, flirted with eye shadow, or browsed the bewildering array in any store's beauty de partment, Color Stories offers an insider's view of all the brainstorming, bickering, and bitchery that go into those little sticks of color and pans of powder. Former beauty editor Mary Lisa Gavenas takes us behind the scenes during the nine months that culminate in the launch of a season's all important color stories. We

For everyone who's ever slicked on lipstick, flirted with eye shadow, or browsed the bewildering array in any store's beauty de-partment, Color Stories offers an insider's view of all the brainstorming, bickering, and bitchery that go into those little sticks of color and pans of powder.

Former beauty editor Mary Lisa Gavenas takes us behind the scenes during the nine months that culminate in the launch of a season's all-important color stories. We discover how one shade becomes the must have, why makeup artists never use the same products as the rest of us, and exactly how easy -- and impossible -- it is to start a million-dollar makeup line.

Backstage at the runway shows, we're swept into the catty, chaotic work world of makeup mogul Bobbi Brown and supermodel Gisele B ndchen. At Est e Lauder headquarters, we see the achingly chic Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer spin societal trends into a lipstick lineup. We watch magazines cheat to make makeup work for layouts, find out how Cindy Crawford got to be worth every penny of her $10 million contract, and make the pilgrimage to Dallas as 35,000 of the Mary Kay faithful assemble for the fabled annual Seminar. Along the way, we also learn about marketing, media, and the manipulation of aesthetics, about the codification of physical beauty, and how this industry revolutionized the role of women in business.

Through its often funny, sometimes poignant scenes of seduction, courtship, and consummation, Color Stories reveals why women become besotted by beauty products -- and why that love affair will never end.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 09/14/2007
ISBN: 9781416577133
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.51d
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Special Size: Low Stretch, Size: 34W x 32L, Color: Dark Midnight Wash
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Special Size: Rigid, Size: 33W x 28L, Color: Black
Comfortable and close fit around waist, buttocks, crotch - but from thigh down trouser cuff it’s a VERY relaxed fit, much bigger than I need even with thick muscular legs. Not quite clown pants or bell bottoms, but a still a strange look. I’ll probably be sending them back.
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Special Size: Low Stretch, Size: 42W x 32L, Color: Classic Medium Wash
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