Face Forward
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Face Forward is a cosmetics book written by Kevyn Aucoin. It was a New York Times bestseller.[1] The book was widely noted for introducing makeup sculpting and contouring to the general public for the first time.
| |
| Author | Kevyn Aucoin |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Kevyn Aucoin |
| Language | English |
| Subject | cosmetics |
| Publisher | Little, Brown |
Publication date | October 4, 2000 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 176 |
| OCLC | 0316286443 |
| Preceded by | Making Faces (1999) |
Aucoin's portrait subjects include Julia Roberts, Sharon Stone, Martha Stewart, Tori Amos and Aucoin's own mother. Little, Brown and Company reported a 275,000-copy first printing (compared to 164,000 for his last book, Making Faces), and the publishing company had already ordered three more press runs by the end of the month, for a total of 425,000 copies.[2]
Promotion
A 12-page excerpt from the book ran in the October 2000 issue of InStyle magazine.[2] The same month, Oprah Winfrey devoted a full episode of her chat show to the book and Aucoin appeared on the Today Show.[2]
