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Pretty Honest
- Author
- Sali Hughes
- Narrator
- Sali Hughes
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 25 September 2014
- Run Time
- 8 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Cosmetics, hair and beauty, Fashion and beauty industries, Fashion and style guides, Coping with / advice about body image issues or topics, Women’s health, Popular psychology, Practical advice: Life hacks / handy tips, Advice on careers and achieving success, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Popular culture
What to expect
A witty, wise and truthful beauty handbook for real women on what works in real life from Sali Hughes, beloved journalist and broadcaster.
‘Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together’ Elizabeth Taylor
Think of beauty books – cue immediate images of coffee-table photographs of ludicrously beautiful models with few clothes and fewer time restraints, works inundated with ‘up-to-date’ reviews that may as well be Edwardian or holistic mumbo jumbo on how to make a face mask with molasses and some roughly hewn porridge oats.
Not anymore…
Covering everything from teenage skin to that milestone 80th birthday, botox to no-botox, celebration to grief, Sali Hughes, leading journalist and broadcaster, shows real women how to make the most of makeup’s physically and emotionally transformative powers in a work that is part instruction manual, part love letter to makeup – whilst employing a writing style that combines beauty editor, feminist and painfully funny best friend.
Critics Review
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Praise for Sali Hughes:
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‘I really love Sali Hughes … She's just really good and trustworthy and I've never had a duff recommendation from her.’ Hadley Freeman, Guardian
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‘Oh joy! this is how we like our beauty advice – intelligent, real and stonkingly funny … She’s good, properly honest, with just enough bossy-ness in her tone to make you want to try harder and do better … Bookmark it under ‘essential reading’.’ The Women’s Room
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‘Straight talking, super-knowledgeable and one of the most respected beauty writers around’ A Little Bird
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‘Known for her thoughtful and witty writing style … Sali is a prolific tweeter who regularly dispenses humorous, no-nonsense style, shopping and beauty advice to her several thousand followers’ Stylist.co.uk
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Details
- Author
- Sali Hughes
- Narrator
- Sali Hughes
- Duration
- 8 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 September 2014
- ISBN
- 9780007593835
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Cosmetics, hair and beauty, Fashion and beauty industries, Fashion and style guides, Coping with / advice about body image issues or topics, Women’s health, Popular psychology, Practical advice: Life hacks / handy tips, Advice on careers and achieving success, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Popular culture
Synopsis
A witty, wise and truthful beauty handbook for real women on what works in real life from Sali Hughes, beloved journalist and broadcaster. ‘Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together’ Elizabeth Taylor Think of beauty books – cue immediate images of coffee-table photographs of ludicrously beautiful models with few clothes and fewer time restraints, works inundated with ‘up-to-date’ reviews that may as well be Edwardian or holistic mumbo jumbo on how to make a face mask with molasses and some roughly hewn porridge oats. Not anymore… Covering everything from teenage skin to that milestone 80th birthday, botox to no-botox, celebration to grief, Sali Hughes, leading journalist and broadcaster, shows real women how to make the most of makeup’s physically and emotionally transformative powers in a work that is part instruction manual, part love letter to makeup – whilst employing a writing style that combines beauty editor, feminist and painfully funny best friend.
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