The Japanese Skincare Revolution

Author: Chizu Saeki
Publisher: Kodansha Amer Incorporated
ISBN: 9784770030832
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
A guide for women of various ages and races who want to have beautiful skin, and don't want to spend lots of money on cosmetics and treatments to achieve it. It introduces readers to the lotion mask; hand techniques for toning the muscles of the face; and lymph massages for draining toxins and improving blood flow. Japanese women are renowned for their beautiful skin, but until now there has been no book in English that reveals the secrets of the typical Japanese beauty routine. 'The Japanese Skincare Revolution' is the first guide for women of all ages and races who want to

The Japanese Skincare Revolution

Author: Chizu Saeki
Publisher: Vertical Inc
ISBN: 1568364067
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Japanese women are renowned for their beautiful skin, but until now there has been no book in English that reveals the secrets of the typical Japanese beauty routine. The Japanese Skincare Revolution is the first guide for women of all ages and races who want to have beautiful skin like the Japanese, and don’t want to spend lots of money on cosmetics and treatments to achieve it. Author Chizu Saeki is a practicing aesthetician and beauty consultant whose dream is to teach ordinary women how to become more beautiful. To this end, she writes books, teaches, and tours Japan, giving demonstrations of the techniques she developed over a career spent in the beauty industry. Her books have sold more than 3 million copies in Japan, and the revolutionary ideas presented in this volume have won the approval of skin doctors within Japan and out. The Japanese Skincare Revolution is Saeki’s best-selling skincare title, and her first to be translated into English. It is a distillation of all of her most essential techniques. In it, readers will be introduced to the lotion mask—a moisturizing treatment for keeping the skin fresh and lustrous; hand techniques for toning the muscles of the face; lymph massages for draining toxins and improving blood flow; natural, no-nonsense remedies for wrinkles, sagging, oiliness, pimples, and blackheads; "warm care" and "cool care" for soothing the mind and body; water massages to energize the skin; and much, much more. Throughout the book, Saeki calls on the reader to use her own hands to touch and treat her face, and her own eyes to judge what her skin needs. She leads her toward a wholehearted skincare routine that will have her complimenting herself as her skin responds. By following Saeki’s advice, every woman will discover that it’s possible to have beautiful skin at any age—without spending a fortune.

Pure Skin

Author: Victoria Tsai
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 1524763330
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Skincare is self-care. This guide book helps you get to know and improve your skin health with useful tips and recommendations for using everyday ingredients and skin products in a super simple, unique-to-you ritual. Vicky Tsai, founder of Tatcha Skin Care, is sharing generations-old, time-tested Japanese skincare traditions with you. No matter how you customize it, all you need is two minutes and four steps: Purify, Polish, Prep, and Nourish. But Pure Skin isn’t just about basic skincare, it’s also about a lifestyle; it begins with how you eat and even how you sleep. You’ll also learn about: · East vs. West: Learn why spot treatment and quick fixes never make lasting changes · A Silken Path to Softer Skin: Pamper yourself with silk in five different ways · What’s Your Skincare Psyche?: Discover your skincare personality and what treatment will work for you · Sheet Masks Demystified: Indulge in this scientifically-proven beauty trend once a week · Ingredients to Believe In: Use the six traditional ingredients found in Japanese skincare · The Japanese Diet for Clear Skin: Feed your skin with the trinity of Japanese superfoods

The White House Doctor

Author: Connie Mariano
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429958529
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317

Book Description
A riveting look into the personal lives of our presidents through the eyes of their White House doctor "An interesting, behind-the-scenes glimpse of life at the White House." - Kirkus Reviews Dr. Connie Mariano served 9 years at the White House under Presidents George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush. She participated in world headline-making news events and traveled all over the world. She cared for visiting dignitaries and was charged with caring for all the members of the First Family. From flirting with King Juan Carlos of Spain to spending the night on the Queen of England's yacht, Dr. Mariano glimpsed a glittering and powerful celebrity that few ever see. White House Doctor is a fascinating look into what goes on behind closed doors at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The Wikipedia Revolution

Author: Andrew Lih
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401395856
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." --Jimmy Wales With more than 2,000,000 individual articles on everything from Aa! (a Japanese pop group) to Zzyzx, California, written by an army of volunteer contributors, Wikipedia is the #8 site on the World Wide Web. Created (and corrected) by anyone with access to a computer, this impressive assemblage of knowledge is growing at an astonishing rate of more than 30,000,000 words a month. Now for the first time, a Wikipedia insider tells the story of how it all happened -- from the first glimmer of an idea to the global phenomenon it's become. Andrew Lih has been an administrator (a trusted user who is granted access to technical features) at Wikipedia for more than four years, as well as a regular host of the weekly Wikipedia podcast. In The Wikipedia Revolution, he details the site's inception in 2001, its evolution, and its remarkable growth, while also explaining its larger cultural repercussions. Wikipedia is not just a website; it's a global community of contributors who have banded together out of a shared passion for making knowledge free. Featuring a Foreword by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and an Afterword that is itself a Wikipedia creation.

Fashioning Japanese Subcultures

Author: Yuniya Kawamura
Publisher: Berg
ISBN: 0857852167
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
Western fashion has been widely appreciated and consumed in Tokyo for decades, but since the mid-1990s Japanese youth have been playing a crucial role in forming their own unique fashion communities and producing creative styles which have had a major impact on fashion globally. Geographically and stylistically defined, subcultures such as Lolita in Harajuku, Gyaru and Gyaru-o in Shibuya, Age-jo in Shinjuku, and Mori Girl in Kouenji, reflect the affiliation and identities of their members, and have often blurred the boundary between professionals and amateurs for models, photographers, merchandisers and designers. Based on insightful ethnographic fieldwork in Tokyo, Fashioning Japanese Subcultures is the first theoretical and analytical study on Japan's contemporary youth subcultures and their stylistic expressions. It is essential reading for students, scholars and anyone interested in fashion, sociology and subcultures.

The Japanese Way of Beauty

Author: Michelle Dominique Leigh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788152962
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
This practical guide shows you how to use natural ingredients to have luxuriant hair, beautiful skin, a lovelier body & a calm & relaxed body & mind. It utilizes widely available plants, grains, vegetables & other natural ingredients for everything from soothing teas to delicate facial scrubs. You can dip into it for a recipe as needed, or use it as a manual to devise a complete personal beauty regime. Includes: face washes; facial waters; oils & emollients; treatments, packs & rubs; beauty teas for face & hair; shampoos; hair rinses & treatments; body-polishing bath scrubs; body treatments & vitalizing teas & tonics. Illustrated.

Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe

Author: Frederik L. Schodt
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
ISBN: 1611720095
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Looks at Professor Risley's introduction of the Western-style circus to Japan in 1864 and his subsequent tours of the country with the Imperial Japanese Troupe of acrobats, an encounter that opened both cultures to one another.

Formulas, Ingredients and Production of Cosmetics

Author: Hiroshi Iwata
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 4431540601
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
Today, young cosmetics researchers who have completed their graduate studies and have entered a cosmetics company are put through several years of training before they become qualified to design cosmetics formulations themselves. They are trained so that they can design formulas not by a process of logic but by heart, like craftsmen, chefs, or carpenters. This kind of training seems a terrible waste of labor and time. To address this issue and allow young scientists to design novel cosmetics formulations, effectively bringing greater diversity of innovation to the industry, this book provides a key set of skills and the knowledge necessary for such pursuits. The volume provides the comprehensive knowledge and instruction necessary for researchers to design and create cosmetics products. The book’s chapters cover a comprehensive list of topics, which include, among others, the basics of cosmetics, such as the raw materials of cosmetics and their application; practical techniques and technologies for designing and manufacturing cosmetics, as well as theoretical knowledge; emulsification; sensory evaluations of cosmetic ingredients; and how to create products such as soap-based cleansers, shampoos, conditioners, creams, and others. The potential for innovation is great in Japan’s cosmetics industry. This book expresses the hope that the high level of dedicated research continues and proliferates, especially among those who are innovators at heart.

Passionate Friendship

Author: Deborah M. Shamoon
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824861116
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely popular and prominent genre in Japan. Why is this genre so appealing? Where did it come from? Why do so many of the stories feature androgynous characters and homosexual romance? Passionate Friendship answers these questions by reviewing Japanese girls’ print culture from its origins in 1920s and 1930s girls’ literary magazines to the 1970s “revolution” shojo manga, when young women artists took over the genre. It looks at the narrative and aesthetic features of girls’ literature and illustration across the twentieth century, both pre- and postwar, and discusses how these texts addressed and formed a reading community of girls, even as they were informed by competing political and social ideologies. The author traces the development of girls’ culture in pre–World War II magazines and links it to postwar teenage girls’ comics and popular culture. Within this culture, as private and cloistered as the schools most readers attended, a discourse of girlhood arose that avoided heterosexual romance in favor of “S relationships,” passionate friendships between girls. This preference for homogeneity is echoed in the postwar genre of boys’ love manga written for girls. Both prewar S relationships and postwar boys’ love stories gave girls a protected space to develop and explore their identities and sexuality apart from the pressures of a patriarchal society. Shojo manga offered to a reading community of girls a place to share the difficulties of adolescence as well as an alternative to the image of girls purveyed by the media to boys and men. Passionate Friendship’s close literary and visual analysis of modern Japanese girls’ culture will appeal to a wide range of readers, including scholars and students of Japanese studies, gender studies, and popular culture.