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Pretty Honest: The Straight-Talking Beauty Companion
Pretty Honest: The Straight-Talking Beauty Companion
Pretty Honest: The Straight-Talking Beauty Companion
Audiobook8 hours

Pretty Honest: The Straight-Talking Beauty Companion

Written by Sali Hughes

Narrated by Sali Hughes

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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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.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 25, 2014
ISBN9780007593835
Author

Sali Hughes

Sali Hughes is a leading journalist, presenter and broadcaster with over 24 years’ experience. A former magazine editor, she is the beauty editor on the Guardian. In 2018, she co-founded the non-profit collective Beauty Banks and in 2022 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from Cardiff University for services to journalism and charity. Sali has a large social media presence and can be found on Twitter and Instagram @salihughes. She lives in Brighton.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Absolutely love this book! Highly recommend, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I've had the pleasure of imbibing Sali's sage beauty advice through her Guardian columns and website for a couple of years now, and Pretty Honest is the perfect distillation of her down-to-earth, sensible yet empowering approach to what can be a scary topic for many women.Just a few highlights include an entire chapter on red lipstick, how to use beauty products to make you feel a little like normal during illness and the perfect rant about why you shouldn't save expensive beauty products 'for best' (spoiler: because life's too short).It's no exaggeration to say that Sali has completely transformed my face and helped me take greater enjoyment in something that used to confuse the hell out of me, and I fully intend to buy copies of this book for my friends so they too can benefit!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The first few chapters were interesting, all about cleansing and moisturising and skin care but she mostly lost me with the makeup advice chapters, I'm not a makeup wearer on a normal day, and barely on special days too.So I was cruising along with the read, seeing if she could convert me, which she pretty much didn't, and the wedding makeup chapter happened, and it was interesting and then she mentioned casually that same-sex couples should try not to match too much but try not to clash too and I was charmed.Then she had the "Saving the Best for Now" chapter, which should be compulsory reading for almost everyone. It's about using the good stuff now rather than saving it for a special moment, to regard every moment as special and it sang to me, and moved the book from a 3 star to a 4 star read in one short chapter.The other resources chapter has some interesting links.