Pretty Honest
- Author Sali Hughes
- Narrator Sali Hughes
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 25 September 2014
- Run Time 8 hours and 21 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Advice on careers and achieving success, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Biography and non-fiction prose, Coping with body image issues, Cosmetics, hair and beauty, Family and health, Fashion and beauty industries, Fashion and style guides, Popular culture, Popular psychology, Practical advice: Life hacks / handy tips, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Society and Social Sciences, Women’s health.
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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
Praise for Sali Hughes:
'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
'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
'Straight talking, super-knowledgeable and one of the most respected beauty writers around' A Little Bird
'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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