Billy Yamaguchi Feng Shui Beauty: Bringing the Ancient Principles of Balance and Harmony to Hair, Makeup and Personal Style
Author: Billy Yamaguchi
What are your Feng Shui elements?
Feng Shui is an ancient and proven system for balance and harmony. Billy Yamaguchi gives you everything you need to find out which Feng Shui elements are the strongest for you right now and how to choose the hairstyle, makeup and clothing that will bring out your true inner self.
--Figure out your elements from your lifestyle and personality
--Find out whether you need to balance, harmonize or enhance your elements
--Learn which hair lengths, cuts and highlights are the best for your elements and face shape
--Discover the best makeup and hair color for your elements and skin tone
You’ll end up with hair and makeup that reflect who you really are-your outer appearance will finally express your true self.
Most hairstylists are trained in a particular cut and give this same haircut to all of their clients, regardless of differences in lifestyle and personality. Now Billy Yamaguchi, internationally known hairstylist to the stars, helps you bring the principles of Feng Shui to your hairstyle, makeup and fashion, so your look will express your true self.
Using the five elements of Feng Shui-Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood-Billy shows you who you really are in the world, and then designs your haircut, color, makeup and fashion choices to really express your unique style.
For example, the Fire element tends to be passionate and adventurous, while the Metal element is more precise and goal oriented. While everyone has all five elements in their nature, two elements are predominant at any given time. Once you know what they are, your hairstyle, makeup and clothing can be used to enhance, balance orharmonize your elements. You’ve never felt so natural, comfortable and self-expressed in your own skin before.
For the first time, you will have a simple way to communicate your personality to your hairstylist and to figure out what makeup colors and fashion styles suit you best.
You’ve never felt so natural, comfortable and self-expressed in your own skin before!
Publishers Weekly
Yamaguchi owns five California hair salons and is a feng shui devotee. Yet he runs into difficulty with this attempt to explain how understanding feng shui can help a woman alter her physical appearance for the better. Traditionally, the ancient Asian philosophy assists people with placing objects in the home in such a way that energy (chi) flows and creates a positive environment. Applying that discipline more widely, Yamaguchi says we should consider our bodies as homes. By placing our hair and makeup in a certain way, chi will flow through our souls. Feng shui, Yamaguchi explains, is based on the belief that each individual's personality is dominated by two of five elements: fire, earth, metal, water and wood. After readers take a rather involved 17-question quiz, they'll find their most dominant personality elements. They must then muddle through two chapters of jargon and complicated charts to determine the strength of each element in their personality, and then flip to the paragraphs throughout the book relating to their score to determine which hair style, hair color and makeup will bring forth their best physical traits. There are far easier ways for a woman to get advice for looking her best; indeed, the book's latter chapters, where Yamaguchi straightforwardly explains makeup and hair techniques, are its most useful sections. Photos. (Dec.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
In his several California salons, professional hairstylist Yamaguchi has successfully applied the Chinese art of feng shui to beauty. Here, he seeks to help readers begin the practice at home through a series of exercises that will ostensibly identify their dominant elements (from fire, earth, metal, water, and wood); the proper makeup and haircut to keep those elements in balance is then prescribed. Drowning in your own wateriness? Add wood via an easy, swinging coiffure. Certainly, Yamaguchi's premise sounds empowering-beauty is deeper than skin-but one can't help but conclude that feng shui is too complex an art to be applied to as practical a skill as looking good. Readers could get the same results from any stylist with proper traditional training-and bypass this book's confusing background and organization. Libraries are better off with more straightforward, all-inclusive beauty books, e.g., Jennifer Trung's recent InStyle Getting Gorgeous.-Heather McCormack, Library Journal Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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Author: Jennifer Allen
Cancer is a family disease
How to survive the dizzying time of a loved one's cancer diagnosis? For artist/teacher Jennifer Allen, creating bright, light illustrations and punchy prose-for her father and for herself-was the avenue to cope and find hope in that year. The poetry, pictures, optimism, and humor in this book will be a source of encouragement, whether you're battling this disease, or have a family member who has cancer. This book helps you find and cherish the small moments and inspire you to express love and support.
Jennifer Allenhas been an assistant professor at Western Illinois University for the past four years. She received her M.S. degree in Administration from Southeast Missouri State University and iscurrently completing her Ph.D. in Sociology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. She has worked as a juvenile probation officer in Texas and Missouri. As a juvenile probation officer she worked as an abuse and neglect officer, an intensive probation officer, and as a grant writerand programmer. She has been actively involved in restorative justice programming, specifically with Victim Impact Panels, and has consultedwith various counties in Illinois and Missouri on juvenile offenderprogramming.
