Grooming Style

In Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles, professor and author Bert Ashe delivers a witty, fascinating, and unprecedented account of Black male identity as seen through our culture's perceptions of hair. It is a deeply personal story that weaves together the cultural and political history of dreadlocks with Ashe's own midlife journey to lock his hair.

Deepak Chopra and Kimberly Snyder offer an exciting and practical program to help transform you from the inside out. Through six pillars of healthy living that focus on internal and external nourishment, sleep, living naturally, avoiding excessive stress, and better understanding the relationship between emotions and inflammatory foods, the authors offer practical tips, tools, innovative routines, and foods that will allow you to achieve your highest potential of beauty and health.

Are you too busy to breathe, let alone meditate? Overwhelmed by the idea of self-care routines that require hours, expensive candles, or pretending to like kale smoothies? Self-Care(ish) Sanity Hacks is here to help. This hilarious and practical guide skips the fluff and gets straight to self-care hacks that actually fit into a busy life—because you deserve to feel human, even if your schedule disagrees.

If you recognize the significance of healthy hair, then 21 Natural Hair Growth Stimulators is the perfect book for you. And if you don’t, then you’re about to embark on a crash course of nurturing hair from the inside and out. Prepare to be taken to task as this hair care book showcases a host of ingredients to grow thicker, fuller, healthier hair. The Earth has provided its inhabitants with much of what’s needed to survive. The necessities for hair are no exception.

Over $3 billion is spent treating acne every year. But YouTube celebrities Nina and Randa Nelson have found a solution that is easy, affordable, and as close as your local grocery store. Based on solid nutritional science, vetted by top nutrition experts, and proven by the authors' experiences and now so many others, The Clear Skin Diet will help you clear your skin for good. This is it: a six-week plan to take control of skin issues using the simple principles of a low-fat vegan diet, foods such as potatoes, pasta, rice, corn, beans, oatmeal, and whole grains.

This smart guide will help you navigate modern life, enabling you to save money and time. Sali Hughes offers striking good sense on: home; food and drink, fashion; health and beauty; life and finances; friends, relationships and family. From useful, everyday tips such as how to cut your own fringe and how to buy great second-hand clothing, to the less talked about, agonising questions like how to split finances with your partner and how to grieve, Guardian beauty editor Sali Hughes has advice on the big and the small, and everything in between.

In this revised edition of the classic much-loved Facial Gua Sha book, Clive Witham, author of the Gua Sha, Facial Gua Sha, and Holographic Gua Sha series, brings his 20-year gua sha expertise to show you how your body can influence your face and how you can activate the vitality of your skin and muscle tone through ancient Chinese ideas of the natural world. Clive shows you how to view this elegant anti-aging beauty technique through the lens of ancient Chinese wisdom.

Amber Rose didn't let her early years in the tough neighborhood of South Philly keep her from achieving her star-studded goals. From the sets of music videos to high fashion runways and magazines to life at home with her beautiful son, Amber doesn't hesitate to command her personal stage with confidence, edge, attitude, and her own form of grace. For the first time, this renowned model, actress, socialite, pop culture maven, and self-proclaimed "bad bitch" is sharing her secrets on how to lead a powerful life.

Here’s the deal: You may love the idea of starting your own eyelash business, but you have no idea where to get started. Fortunately, this book will give you the blueprint you need to build an eyelash extension business that you will love. Just imagine what life would be like being your own boss, setting your own hours, and being in control of your income. Achieving these things can be easy with the proper knowledge. It doesn’t have to take years of learning from your own mistakes to be successful with this business.

Dermatologist-to-the-stars Doris Day, MD, explains how the power of your mind and breakthroughs in anti-aging can help you look and feel beyond beautiful. Do not have another treatment, procedure, or buy another product before listening to this audiobook! Did you know that your mind is as important as any aesthetic treatment to improve the way you look? Beyond Beautiful will teach you how to improve your self-perception, explain breakthrough treatments and products and when to use them, and give you a roadmap to become the most natural-looking, beautiful version of yourself.

Stop Picking on Me is the definitive guide on excoriation (skin picking) disorder (SPD). Learn how to make peace with your critical self and how to change your lifestyle to finally heal the phenomenon of nervous, obsessive, compulsive, and habitual skin picking. Mary-Margaret "anand sahaja" Stratton is the founding mother healer of excoriation disorder. She is an Essene minister, certified raw food nutritionist, instructional designer, and veteran of twelve step philosophy.

50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know is a young man's guide to becoming the type of guy that people respect and enjoy. He knows how to shake hands. He knows how to be a good sport. He knows how to give a genuine compliment and how to speak his mind without being offensive. His friends listen to what he has to say, and he returns the favor. He knows how to achieve the perfect knot in a necktie, and more important, he knows when he should be wearing a tie in the first place. Oh, and his favorite ball cap? He knows when to wear it and when to leave it at home on his dresser.

Every time you dress, you assert your identity. With style, you tell the world your story. In that way, style affords you opportunities to think about your appearance as a quality of your creative character. The Little Black Book of Style helps you to explore your own fashion voice - the piece of you that joyously revels in the glamorous experience of creating your best self.

Have you ever wondered why we wear the type of clothes we do? Packed with outlandish outfits, this exciting history of fashion trends reveals the flamboyant fashions adopted (and discarded) by our ancestors. In the days before cosmetic surgery, people used bum rolls and bombastic breeches to augment their figures, painted their faces with poisonous concoctions, and doused themselves with scent to cover body odor.

Anti-aging has become a multi-billion dollar industry, but do you know which products, procedures or treatments are really going to help you look (and feel!) younger? Rest assured, the days of painful procedures that promised you the fountain of youth, cost a fortune, and then - surprise! - didn't work, are gone. There are treatments available that can halt, and in some cases, even reverse the aging process.

You’re not taking care of your skin. Maybe you think you are, with a counter full of lotions, serums, creams, and cleansers. But what we call “skincare” products aren’t caring for your skin so much as masking it. Worse yet, modern skincare disturbs your skin’s natural metabolism and impairs your beauty. In Skin Sobering, “Beauty-Obsessed Scientist” Erin Yuet Tjam, PhD, and renowned anti-aging physician and skin specialist Ryuichi Utsugi, MD, deconstruct the myth of reliance on skincare products peddled by the beauty industry.

Flawless skin like the movie stars and models!

Regardless of where and how you live, your body is harboring dozens if not hundreds of toxins that could be sabotaging your health. Low on energy? Dealing with chronic illness? Having trouble losing weight? Toxins might be to blame. From your mattress to your toothpaste to your nonstick pans to the food you eat and the (bottled) water you drink - every day your body is bombarded with chemicals that can alter the way your body works.

We all get dressed. But how often do we pause to think about the place of clothes in our world? What unconscious thoughts do we express when we dress every day? Can a philosophy of living be wrapped up in a winter coat? Can we see a handbag not just as an object, but as an idea? Dressed is the thinking person’s book about clothes. Ranging freely from suits to shoes, from Marx’s coat to Madame X’s gown, philosopher Shahidha Bari unveils the hidden power of what we wear, addressing the deepest questions of who we are and how we choose to face the world.

Are you interested in trying milk soap making for the first time? Or an experienced soap maker looking for new and interesting recipes? This audiobook is a practical soap-making guide on how the soap-making process works and how to make natural milk soap at home using goat, cow, coconut, and almond milk. With this helpful guide, making milk soaps will be a breeze. Regardless of whether you’re a commercial soap producer or just an enthusiast who loves to experiment in their kitchen, the information provided in this audiobook is relatable and easy to understand.