title: D.I.Y.  Beauty (Alloy Books)
author: Karen Bressler
description: Grade 7 Up-Beauty professionals respond to health and beauty tips sent in by contributors of the Alloy.com Internet community. Chapters address hair care, makeup, skin care, and natural products. Within each chapter, suggestions from teens are followed by comments from experts. These statements often point out dangerous practices, modify procedures, or provide better solutions to the particular problem addressed. The book has a number of interviews with makeup artists and celebrities including MTV's Audrey da Costa and rock star Shirley Manson. Sidebars on the history of beauty practices are also included. The layout of the book is reminiscent of a magazine, with line drawings interspersed throughout and the use of different fonts, frames, and shades of color to highlight text. Perhaps the biggest drawbacks are the lack of clear illustrations of techniques and the fact that some readers may find "recipe" instructions calling for "equal parts" of everything too unspecific. Nonetheless, readers will enjoy this high-interest, browsable item and will find it more accessible than Bobbi Brown Teenage Beauty (HarperCollins, 2000).<BR><I> Jane Halsall, McHenry Public Library District, IL </I><BR>Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # [ACKNOWLEDGMENTS](toc.xhtml#Ref_13528a)
  
  
  It was an absolute honor to work with the incredible teams at Alloy and LBYR
  in bringing Serina and Nomi to life. Huge cupcake-sprinkled hugs to my
  editors, Pam Gruber, Lanie Davis, and Eliza Swift, and to my story gurus, Josh
  Bank, Joelle Hobeika, and Sara Shandler. To Les Morgenstein, Romy Golan, Matt
  Bloomgarden, and the rest of the team at Alloy, thank you for everything
  you’ve done to support me and this book. To Megan Tingley, Alvina Ling, Emilie
  Polster, Katharine McAnarney, Carol Scatorchio, and the whole amazing team at
  LBYR, thank you so much for taking a chance on my sisters and being so
  enthusiastic about them! And to the wonderful designers who brought them (and
  the cover in general) to beautiful life—Karina Granda, Mallory Grigg, and Liz
  Dresner—thank you!
  
  
  My sincerest thanks to Kirsten Wolf at Emerald City Literary Agency for
  helping me with my contract, and to Linda Epstein, who somehow always knows
  what to say (no, _y