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- Helps prepare you for going under the knife
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Welcome to Your Face Lift: What to Expect Before, During & After Cosmetic Surgery
Helen Bransford
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Although open, honest, straightforward, and entertaining are not usually the words one associates with writing about cosmetic surgery, they are exactly the qualities that make Helen Bransford's "Welcome to your Facelift" unique.
At the age of forty-seven, and married to writer Jay McInerny, who is seven years her junior, Bransford decided it was time to recapture that face she no longer saw when looking in the mirror. Her surgery involved a "touch of lipo" under the chin, a forehead peel and upper eyelid tuck, dermabrasion under the eyes, and a standard lift, and she chronicles it all -- with sage advice from the veteran to the uninitiated -- from the initial decision to that moment, a month after the event, when she was "dead certain" she had done the right thing. For all those who don't know anyone who's done it -- or is willing to discuss it -- Helen Bransford wild be that "best friend" who tells you what it's really like -- no holds barred -- and what you should do to prepare.
To augment her own story, Bransford interviewed doctors, nurses (who really know what's going on), and other patients, adding their expertise and experience to her own. She has researched every procedure from the most common eye lift to state-of-the-art ultrasonic liposuction, and she reports from the cosmetic surgery trenches with authority, understanding, and above all the clear-eyed awareness that "the entire exercise deals with the superficial, so you should consider no detail too trite."
Customer Reviews:
Helpful, but.......2007-02-13
Helen does a wonderful job of preparing you for surgery. She has good information, related in a conversational style. There are even a few pictures to prepare the reader for what you will look like immediately after surgery. But personally, I wish she had been more thorough in describing what to expect after surgery. Her "after" pictures stopped at day six. I would have liked to see what to expect on week 2 and 3. Those weeks are handled with a brief paragraph each. With so much attention to detail leading up to surgery, I would have expected just as much detail afterwards. Otherwise, good book and worthwhile reading.
EXCELLENCE.......2006-03-23
FOR ANYONE CONTEMPLATING A FACE LIFT..THIS BOOK IS INVALUABLE.
WELL WRITTEN, AMUSING BUT SERIOUS.
OK, BUT THERE ARE MUCH BETTER BOOKS.......2000-04-15
I was disappointed by this book. There are much better books available.... "The Hollywood Facelift" or "The Youth Corridor" or "Nips and Tucks" are all much better than this book.
Honest, straightforward and "right on the money" !.......1999-03-24
I am offering my review "after" having cosmetic surgery. Reading Helen's book helped me interview 5 doctors prior to making my cosmetic surgery decision. Having never considered cosmetic surgery, I would not have known the best questions to ask, what to look for in a doctor, his nurses, his education, training, office etc. had it not been for Helen's book! Helen's book offers the most realistic before, during and after information...including pictures! By applying her advice, I selected a surgeon and had surgery that I am unbelievably happy with! I achieved what I wanted and more...and continue to get compliments regularly on how great I look...but no one can quite figure out what is different...which is exactly what I wanted! I have had several friends select my plastic surgeon and schedule surgery after seeing my results and reading Helen's book! The most ironic part of all...is that I gave the book to my plastic surgeon! And now he gives it to patients and recommends it! If you're thinking of plastic surgery...of any kind...reading this book first is a MUST!
Helps prepare you for going under the knife.......1999-02-03
This book was one of several I read when making the decision of what to do about my aging face. It made me realize there had to be a less risky, invasive way to create a more youthful look. After meeting with several plastic surgeons and reading this book, I decided to try facial exercise first. I purchased several books-read them all-and found Facercise. The Facercise book and video tapes have given me the face I had 10 years ago. No surgery, no risks, no pain.
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In this debut book, photographer Lalli offers an edgy and alluring look at a new generation of models at play. An intimage and seductive visiton of male beauty and desire, this collection of images marks a new and subversive stage in the developing art of guy portraiture.
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VERY INTERESTING.......2007-01-24
This photographer has a GREAT EYE and see's things and men in an interesting way .. you'll enjoy it
Not Much To Get Excited About Here.......2004-09-12
Supposedly the photographer shot these men after they had worked by day as models for fashion ads. They are thus apparently supposed to be being themselves, unposed, etc. If George Bernard Shaw were alive today and saw these boys, I'm not sure that he would say that it's a shame that youth is wasted on young people. With a couple of exceptions there's not a single photograph here that I would even think about purchasing and certainly not hanging on a wall. The lighting is garish, the composition is bad and many of the shots are out of focus. (Deliberately I hope.)
Brad Gooch gushes in his foreward. Yes, the photographs remind you of Larry Clark and Nan Goldin; but these two photographers did it much better and got there first. And how Gooch can call Lalli a "gay Helmut Newton" is beyond me. Paul Cadmus in his afterward makes a lot more sense when he says that these are boys he would not want to know, himself. I couldn't agree more.
To quote a line from Robert Browning, suddenly "I feel chilly and grown old" when I view these photographs.
not as I expected........2003-01-23
By looking at the book cover, I thought that it would have lots of nude pictures, etc. And from the book title, I assumed this is a picture book about those models having fun after dark. But in reality, it is just a book of different male models in different poses. It only has a few nude pictures. Nothing too exciting, I think.
Yum!.......2000-07-22
"Fun ? Game: Male Models After Dark is a fascinating blend of the sexual and the silly, the enticing and the amusing: it's a collection of snaps taken by the uni-named fashion photog Lalli while casting for Calvin Klein; the bodies are mostly sheathed in slight briefs or lightly-draped shirts, and it's not a fount of full-frontal. But it is a colorful eyeful of good-looking goofs, a reminder that models have personalities. - review excerpt from RL at A Different Light Books
contrived.......2000-07-15
what a disappointment. mostly cliched and contrived images that lack emotional and visual impact. what should be provocative images come across as awkward and rehearsed. for the real thing, check out testino!
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An honest, empowering, informative book that excels in educating people about deciding on, having and recovering from cosmetic surgery. Thoroughly chronicling the author's own experience with cosmetic surgery as background for giving practical, intelligent, step-by-step advice mixed with over 20 years of her experience working with post-op plastic surgery patients, this book leaves no stone unturned in dealing with the cosmetic surgical experience-from choosing a surgeon to planning your first post-op sex! An easy read, this book will be a wake-up call to some surgeons and a valuable guide for those seeking realistic information.
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Great practical information with a sense of humor!.......2006-11-01
This book was awesome! It was incredibly easy to read with great practical information regarding plastic surgery as well as taking responsibility for your own healing process. It was wonderful and extremely informative. I would definitely recommend this book to people who are contemplating plastic surgery!
Cosmetic Surgery: Before, Between and After.......2006-06-15
Since I was considering cosmetic surgery during a break in my schedule, I purchased several books, some by physicians, in order to make intelligent choices about the procedures that I was planning on having. This book, without a doubt, was one of the best of the bunch! I have a Master's degree in nursing, and always thorougly research any subject that is important to me. I appreciated Susan's logic, sense of humor, and depth of information that was present in her book. If you are considering cosmetic surgery, do yourself a favor, and buy this book
a must-read to prepare for surgery and recovery.......2006-04-30
I would highly recommend this book to anyone preparing for cosmetic surgery. It covers a variety of areas which I found very helpful, such as choosing my surgeon and preparing for recovery. I really liked Susan Gail's writing style - its down to earth and patient-friendly, yet at the same time its step-by-step approach was a tremendous help for me to get focused and organized. A definite must-have!
Of limited use.......2006-04-13
I was disappointed in the book. I am sure that if I was having a facelift that it may have offered some good suggestions (albeit with a smattering of new age mumbo jumbo). But I am having a tummy tuck and breast reduction and even though the book was marketed as applying to all cosmetic surgery it really missed the mark for all other procedures. The author didn't even attempt to think about the other procedures. There are lots of things I have thought of that were not even mentioned in her book (e.g. being able to reach up after breast surgery and so making sure shampoo and conditioner are at waist high in the shower, how I am going to manage blowdrying my hair when I can't lift my arms above my shoulders, etc). In her own cosmetic business she claims to work with lots of clients who have had various cosmetic procedures - it is a shame that she didn't think to ask them for their ideas on the different procedures to make it useful to people not having a facelift.
A word of warning. She made the suggestion to have things like manicures and pedicures prior to surgery - that is fine but she neglects to add that you should not get them to paint your finger or your toenails - a no no - the surgical team uses skin and nail colour to monitor you throughout the surgery.
Overall view - unless you are having a facelift, I wouldn't bother with this book.
Getting a facelift? THIS is the ONLY book you'll need!.......2005-10-29
I had 5 popular books on the facelift-experience. Including The Facelift Diaries, one of the most disturbing of the 5. THEN I got THIS BOOK! Susan Gail not only gives more REAL DETAILS about the doctor-search, the actual MECHANICS of the post-op period, and how to REALLY prepare for your downtime... she has PLENTIFUL photos. AND...She is an aesthetician and cosmetician who had previously seen and worked on people in all stages of the surgery process before getting her own done.
She is FUNNY, honest, and SHE IS EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY! She also is incredibly encouraging in that she has a real facility for intuiting how her words might be affecting the reader and making sure that she keeps you on the positive rather than the negative track. Even when she herself is colliding with unexpected clamaties and mnishaps. SHE NEVER FORGETS to remind the reader that... IF you make the decision to go ahead, you WILL be happy you did.
I LOVED THIS BOOK. It's goin' WITH me into (or UP to) the operating room!
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Imagine owning the perfect wardrobe. It's easy with Dressing Nifty After Fifty, the definitive guide to a simple, stylish wardrobe.
Just as one size does not fit all, one wardrobe does not fit all. Unlike any other wardrobe book, the process outlined in Dressing Nifty After Fifty is highly individualized, asking the reader to start by making a list of her activities during a typical 14-day period. Next, she'll discover how to build a wardrobe on three basic colors, enhance her body shape with clothes, look thinner and taller, add spice to her outfits with her most flattering colors, and combine comfort and style with her shoes. To help the reader complete her ideal wardrobe plan, tips are included for closet cleanup, clothing maintenance, shopping, grooming, travel, and ways to stay gorgeous as time goes by.
By adopting this system of dressing, the reader will have a wardrobe for all of her activities. She will find that by concentrating on the quality, rather than the quantity, of her wardrobe, she will love and wear everything that she owns. Most important, she will gain a sense of control over her life, giving her the freedom to spend her energy and time on the things she wants to do and the people she loves.
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Buy this book, invest in yourself........2007-07-28
Many thanks to Ms. Richardson for writing this book. I would stare at the fashion magazines' outfits for women of different ages and could not decipher what the subtle differences were that made them age-appropriate. It was very frustrating but now I have her clear explanations to guide me. Particularly helpful were the clarifications of how much to dress up when (casual chic vs. dressy, formal business vs. casual business, etc.) and the two-color/three-color rules. Ms. Richardson takes one from almost getting a sometimes rigid dress code right to being spot on. Her logic is simple to follow and, more importantly, so simple to implement. A reader can take any one suggestion from this book and improve her wardrobe without spending a cent.
Enthusiastically recommended reading for women over 50 .......2007-03-07
Looking your best every day is just as important at 50 as it ever was in childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, or middle-age. Fashion, grooming, and looking lovely is good for one's self-esteem and confidence, socialization with others, and just plain getting the most out of what life has to offer us. In "Dressing Nifty After Fifty: The Definitive Guide To A Simple, Stylish Wardrobe", Corinne Richardson shows how anyone on any budget can look nice, build up their wardrobe based on three basic colors, add zest to their appearance through the use of color, look taller and thinner with the right kind of apparel, combine style and comfort with their footwear, get the most out of their clothing budget, and simply "stay gorgeous as time goes by". Practical, sensible, economy minded, 'reader friendly', and occasionally down right inspiring, "Dressing Nifty After Fifty" is enthusiastically recommended reading for women over 50 who want to look as good sartorially as they did when they were 25!
The Perfect Guide to Stylish Dressing for the Mature Busy Career Woman.......2007-01-09
My friends and I have found this book to be as good as we had hoped it would be. I have been personlly waiting for over a year for its completion and sale so that my friends could receive the benefits of this author's expertise that I have been receiving in personal acquaintance with her for many years. It is a valuable tool for older career women who must keep up with elegant style and have little time to spend on it.
Simplify your life and look stylish at any age........2007-01-02
I have been able to unclutter my closet of unused clothing and find ways to combine clothing and accessories I already own to attain a new, updated, stylish look. My husband and my daughter (my worst clothing critic) have already noticed how much better I am dressing. I am getting compliments at my office and more attentive and courteous treatment in stores and restaurants. My husband and I were even given a chocolate chip cookie as a special treat at a sandwich shop! This book is simple, customized and the principals apply to any age group.
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- Poetic, heartbreaking, and fascinating
- Mommie Dressing
- Touching, but superficial
- Further proof that real life is the stuff of novels
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Mommy Dressing: A love story, after a fashion
Lois Gould
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Novelist Lois Gould pulls off an impressive balancing act in her memoir of life as the daughter of pioneering American fashion designer Jo Copeland. She unsparingly depicts Copeland as a distant, self-involved, critical parent ("I never perspire," she tells Lois. "Why must you?"), yet Gould is also sympathetic to her mother's point of view. The daughter of a garment jobber who nurtured her gifts but appropriated her earnings to pay for her brother's education, Copeland could escape only through marriage to a handsome cigar manufacturer. Unfortunately, Ed Regensburg found the talent and ambition he had admired in his fiancée irksome in a wife. He saddled Copeland with two children she didn't want, then moved out, leaving her to support them. Gould conveys the black humor implicit in her mother's horror of having her glamorous life spoiled by childish messiness--in one hilarious scene, Lois and her brother, sent to visit a friend's equally neglected son in the country so they won't spoil a fancy party, erupt into the living room, bedraggled from a long train ride, to announce indignantly, "Stevie Sondheim cheats!" She also appreciates Copeland's importance as one of America's first and best female designers (active from the 1920s through the mid-'60s). She was a pioneering career woman out of necessity and desire doing her best in a society that neither appreciated nor offered any help to working mothers. Gould's memoir is all the more poignant because it is clear-sighted and unsentimental. --Wendy Smith
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There is a photograph of her wearing my favorite of all her costumes: a long, shining robe that rippled with light when she moved...What I knew about her was only the dressing. Nothing of the rest of her life was visible to me. Unless the dressing was, in fact, the life.
Compelling and multilayered, Mommy Dressing recounts the author's bittersweet girlhood as the daughter of one of America's first star designers. In the exquisite, focused prose that distinguishes Lois Gould's acclaimed novels, she now offers a memoir that is at once a personal history of her family and a fascinating portrayal of New York's emergence as the world's fashion and glamour capital.
Both stories revolve around the central figure of Jo Copeland, a brilliant artist and working mother whose career spanned four decades, from the birth of New York fashion in the 1920s to the close of her own design studio in the 1960s. Lois Gould paints a mesmerizing and vivid portrait of the kingdom of movie stars, fashion shows, and steamer trunks her mother ruled, but always as she witnessed it: a lonely girl as painfully observant of her mother's world as she was painfully aware she could never enter it herself.
The story of Jo Copeland's rise to success--in the company of other such early designers as Hattie Carnegie, Claire McCardell, and Vera Maxwell--is also the story of the headstrong, difficult rise of American fashion. And through the lens of Lois Gould's childhood, an interior world as remote and complex as the mother she strove to understand, readers are given a glimpse of the distant landscape of beautiful exteriors that her mother both created and inspired. Featuring twenty-four period illustrations, including original sketches and designs by Jo Copeland, Mommy Dressing is as captivating and provocative as the women whose lives it portrays.
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Poetic, heartbreaking, and fascinating.......2006-03-24
Lois Gould's memoir of growing up as the daughter of American designer Jo Copeland strikes a rare balance. Gould's childhood was often harsh, lonely, and bewildering, yet also thrilling, if only in the looking-back on it. The creative juices flowing all around her were abundant, and must have informed her own artistic bent. Gould is a poetic writer, and while she doesn't flinch from revealing the nastier aspects of her childhood, she also doesn't fall into the oh-woe-is-me psychobabble so popular today. She comes to a hard-won understanding of and compassion for her beautiful, brittle, dazzlingly talented mother. The book is also a rich history of American social and political life in the first half of the 20th century. Highly recommended.
Mommie Dressing.......2000-02-08
This was a Christmas present last year that I just re-read and loved even more for the texture of Lois Gould's rarified existence and the terror and mystery of her mother's unbelievable life. All my favorite topics are combined in this remarkably dry-eyed memoir: fashion, mother-daughter relations, Park Avenue life, how to pack a steamer trunk when going off to the Paris collections...
Touching, but superficial.......1999-11-02
I was so looking orward to this book, but was sadly disappointed with it. The author had emotionally charged and complex family relationships. She related heart-wrenching accounts of her family history. Yet the emotional foundation for those stories was poorly developed. The book would have ben enthralling if the author had helped me to know her characters more. Instead it left me a bit flat.
Further proof that real life is the stuff of novels.......1999-07-15
Lois Gould's biography of her mother, and in no small part her own autobiography, is written with the novelist's touch. The prose is spare but evocative; the observations through a child's eyes clear but heartbreaking. It's a beautiful "read" although a sad, sad story. Lois Gould, however, bears no malice and allows us to judge Jo Copeland, which we do ultimately with compassion.
Unsurpassed poignancy.......1999-02-18
Gould's flawless memoir captures the complexities of a family, an era and a place beautifully, and anyone who reads her book is richer for it. As with the autobiography Angela's Ashes, Gould is able to recreate her personal history with fascinating detail. The fashion sketches and photos of her mother enhance the text. The book is a captivating armchair journey. I admire Gould for her ability to write of her parents with unblinking perception, conveying her compassion despite their tremendous shortcomings.
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Yes, everything you want to know to look nifty after 50 is here! Information you will find no where else. Easy how-tos, recipes and remedies will save you money and time. For example, illustrations and makeover photos show how to de-age your face, hints on how to style and care for hair, tips to flatter your figure with style and color, and also important facts about nutrition and exercise. All the practical solutions women need who want to look and feel their best.
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The power in Nan Goldin's work is born out of her ability to document the drama in the mundane moments of life. As in her seminal book The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, the subjects of Ten Years After are Goldin's friends and she is expert at conveying the emotional charge she seems to feel around them. The photographs depict them at home in and around Naples, Italy, in 1986 and again in 1996. Cookie, Vittorio, and Daniele--to whose memory the book is dedicated--figure heavily in the earlier pictures. The images are of everyday life: the three friends walking a dog in the woods, Cookie alone in the bathtub, Cookie and Daniele casually posing as if for a quick snapshot. But Goldin's lens transforms these shots into sublime images. Cookie's bath is so drenched in yellow sunlight that viewers feel there's a chance they're peering into heaven. Rebecca at the beach holding an infant to her breast, with a towel draped over her head as a sun shield, is as lovely and intense as any depiction of the Madonna and child. When Goldin returns to Naples 10 years later, the three friends are gone, and more of Goldin's images are absent of people altogether. Color-saturated landscapes, building interiors, and introspective human subjects convey a strong sense of the passage of time and its effect on personal histories.
The book is compact and the color photographs expertly reproduced on heavy paper stock. This design makes it very easy for readers to study both the photos and the accompanying writing, fittingly penned by the artist's friends and models Guido Costa and Cookie Mueller. --Jordana Moskowitz
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Lovely portraits of love, loss, beauty, and bohemia.......1998-07-29
I found this collection (with essays by Cookie Mueller and Guido Costa) to be absolutely mesmerizing. The photographs are so compelling, you can almost smell the life and exuberance of these people, so aimless and free, and so close to the underbelly of society. Highly recommended. Especially touching and true are Cookie Mueller's short essays, well worth the purchase.
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- A very helpful book for collectors and costumers
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A very helpful book for collectors and costumers.......2005-04-24
Note: my review is based on the first edition of this book.
I think this book is wonderful--the author has also written computer manuals, and so her directions are very clear. (Come to think of it, most computer manuals aren't that easy to understand--hers must be special!) The book covers a wide array of topics related to vintage fashion. I especially appreciate the segments on sewing techniques--she explains basic things that I haven't been able to figure out from other books, like how to lengthen a pattern, and more complicated techniques that are very helpful when dealing with vintage clothes, like how to replace a lining. The author includes a lot of helpful hints from her personal experience. The book is organized into different topics, so you can skip the ones that aren't relevant to your interests.
Nice costume book.......2004-01-21
I thought this was a useful book on costuming. There are lots of illistrations and detailed info, such as what style of lace, or what patterns were popular/available during the periods. Good buy, very helpful!
Most Practical and Resourceful.......2003-08-19
Best book I've found. Descriptions and illustrations for each historical period, as well as outfit planning, authentic fabrics, sewing and patternmaking tips, mending, restoring, and resources from A to Z -- books, websites, catalogs, periodicals... My #1 pick.
A book for use in real life.......2002-04-27
I'm a swing dancer and I love this book because it tells how to deal with vintage clothes you actually WEAR! Some books seem to think everybody who buys vintage clothes is some kind of museum. Or that they're rich and only buy perfect clothes in fancy boutiques. This book gives instructions for real-life cleaning, mending, and altering to fit you (for men's clothes too). And how to work with vintage patterns to make your own repros. This book ROCKS!
Could have done with this years ago.......2001-10-11
I wish I had know about this book years ago ! Needless to say I'm going to order copies for friends too. The layout is clear and easy to follow. The topic covered are comprehensive. There is plenty of information given to progress your knowledge further. All in all a great addition to the historic costumiers library.
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London Fashion Week is the pinnacle of the fashion season, and it features an array of native designers, from Burberry and Vivenne Westwood to Alexander McQueen and Nicole Farhi. The roots of London’s place as the international epicenter of haute couture and prêt-à-porter stretch back centuries, and they are explored here by Alistair O’Neill.
Arguing that fashion was central to the impact of modernity in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century London, O’Neill maps the progress of fashion against the city’s neighborhoods and streets. Carnaby Street, Soho, Jermyn Street, and King’s Road each get their turn in London, along with many others, revealing the intersection between London’s urban history and the development of fashion. O’Neill’s analysis is not merely confined to clothing—from the popularity of tattooing in the 1890s to the diverse uses of chintz in the 1980s design aesthetic, he traces the history of fashion in its various manifestations and explores how particular figures were key to disseminating fashion throughout British and international cultures. Participating in fashion, London shows, was not only a pleasurable aspect of modern urban life, but also a fundamental element of contemporary cultural sensibilities. London unearths vital moments of revolution in fashion that reflect deeper changes in London’s history and culture, contending that these historic changes are unfairly marginalized in accounts of transformation in the city’s culture.
A fascinating look at style and urbanism, London offers an intriguing reconsideration of the role of fashion in city life and fills in long overlooked gaps in the history of London and modern design.
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