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| How Not to Look Old: Fast and Effortless Ways to Look 10 Years Younger, 10 Pounds Lighter, 10 Times Better | 
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Sales Rank: 10926
Category: Book
Author: Charla Krupp
Publisher: Springboard Press
Studio: Springboard Press
Manufacturer: Springboard Press
Label: Springboard Press
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 232
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0446581143
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.7042
EAN: 9780446581141
ASIN: 0446581143
Publication Date: January 2, 2008
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Product Description
Forget getting older gracefully--This is the beauty and style bible every woman has been waiting for!HOW NOT TO LOOK OLD is the first--ever cheat sheet of to-dos and fast fixes that pay-off big time--all from Charla and her friends, the best hair pros, makeup artists, designers, dermatologists, cosmetic dentists and personal shoppers in the biz. Packed with eye-opening details on hair color, brows, lipstick, wrinkle-erasers, jeans, shapewear, jewelry, heels, and more, the book speaks to every woman: from low maintenance types who don't want to spend a fortune or tons of time on her looks to high maintenance women who believe in looking fabulous at any price. There's also too-old vs. just-right before and after photos, celebrity examples of good and bad style, shopping lists of Charla's brilliant buys in fashion and beauty products, coveted addresses of "Where the top beauty pros go," fun sidebars--and more.
Known to national audiences from her ten years on NBC's Today show, style expert Charla Krupp dishes out her secrets in this "ultimate" to-do list for looking hip and fabulous -- no matter what your age.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 208 more reviews...
 Bye Bye Frumpy!! June 28, 2009
I am a near 70 yr. old and read the book. I salute this book that elderly women should read to get out of the OL look. Do something with that gray, frizzy hair, baggy mommy jeans and clod-hopper tennis shoes with "tourist t-shirts". Paint your nails and toes and and get out the hair dye! Put on some makeup, attend to your face. Time to get real and not look frumpy. Do your own make-over with this book - it will not hurt, but help! I will never be gray lady, and try to be "hip" as much as my figure allows. No one ever guesses my age and I want to keep it that way. Great book!
Very Well Worth the $,,From the Woman of a Certain Age June 15, 2009
I just turned 60 this year and and I've made some significant and insignificant investments in my appearance over the years. I look great for 60 but we can all use advice and I really appreciated this book. Normally I would read a book like this in bits and pieces but never from beginning to end. I find I'm I'm following the rules that put me all over the chart from low to high maintenance. I'm mostly medium to low. Charla gives a great, actually pretty low key and organized presentation of those very simple changes we can make in terms of clothing, shoes, makeup, underwear, etc. Most of the suggestions are quite simple. For readers who are perhaps a great deal younger than me, one word of advice, blond really does look better on just about everyone when they start to enter the later years of aging. Redheads I know have gone to blond strawberry. Brunettes (like me) are wearing warm, higlighted colors. Women I know that have had black hair have taken the blond route and it still looks great. Truth is softening our color and contrast does reduce the appearance of wrinkles. I used to poo-poo this until I started to look like Cruella DaVille because my hair didn't gray. The blond highlights now blends the later gray fabulously. Perhaps you younguns' aren't feeling the real effects of age that you do when you enter your 60s. Trust me...alot deteriorates in those last years of the fifties. So use Carla's advice with an eye toward what you want to do and what you can afford. If you really read the book you'll find that most of her recommendations are "illusions"...tricks of the eye. Don't discount them even if you envy her very large budget for dermatologic fillers, lasers, etc. I think she has written a seminal book if one can describe a beauty book in this vein!
bought on a whim, found good advice June 14, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book on impulse at Costco and liked it enough to write a review here. I keep returning to it and reading sections. This is the first book of this type that I've read and I've recommended it to several friends already.
I like the fact that the book has lots of practical advice that you can easily use such as limiting accessories (and how to wear bling), don't match outfits too closely or have every hair in place, get properly fit for bras (and where to measure to see if your bra is working properly), and so on. Originally I was worried that the book would be too product specific and be something like an infomercial.
Particularly important these days; you can implement a lot of advice in her book without spending money. (Even though she obviously spends a lot on her appearance.) Here are a few examples.
- Don't hang clothing in outfits but put like items together such as all pants in one spot, all blouses in another. Take pictures of outfits if needed or make notes.
- Get rid of outdated clothing and accessories (and she tells you which those are)
- Follow her rules about not wearing matching outfits but mix those pieces with other items in your closet, etc.
- Don't travel in jeans, a baggy sweatshirt, and tennis shoes, but find something equally comfortable but dressier.
- When wearing heels, have more than one pair of shoes available over the course of the day, and limit the uncomfortable ones to a shorter time, and so on.
- Don't cut your bangs too short or part your hair in the middle.
I appreciate that when she recommends products she has recommendations for similar products at various price points--and chose many items that should be available nation-wide.
I also like that she points out what is current and not (jeans and glasses styles for example) and discusses what a current fit should look like, what to seek, and recommends some brand names. I also like that in each section of the book she discusses high, medium, and low maintenance options which roughly translate to high, medium, and low price points.
All of the photos were helpful although the makeup ones had some young models. It would have been nice to see every photo show women in the target age group.
Not all of her advice will apply to everyone and I don't agree with everything she says. For instance I think women can wear flat shoes and stylish flip-flops in town--in California for certain although I grant that perhaps they shouldn't in New York. I don't think every woman should highlight their hair but for those who choose to do so, her advice is good.
Most of all I like that she addresses looking current and employable--competitive with younger women. This book isn't about looking sexy or dressing too young. It is about keeping yourself well and dressing in a way that is current yet appropriate. Ageless really, rather than Y&H.
good book June 14, 2009
good book had some good ideas but you have to take it with a grain of salt and adjust it to what is appropriate in your life
How Not To Look Old June 13, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A MUST BUY BOOK! This book gives easy, medium and high maintanence tips and covers it all including; hair, make up, clothes and more. I have just followed Charla's easy & medium tips and have received a great many compliments including my Uncle who wanted to know what type of "work" I had done after seeing a picture of me after I started following Charla's tips. Said I look 10 years younger. I have not only purchased this book for myself but have given it as gifts.
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