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  • Aditi Bhatia: Digital Influencers and Online Expertise: The Linguistic Power of Beauty Vloggers

    Aditi Bhatia: Digital Influencers and Online Expertise: The Linguistic Power of Beauty Vloggers

  • Maxine Leeds Craig: The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics (Routledge Companions to Gender)

    Maxine Leeds Craig: The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics (Routledge Companions to Gender)

  • Genevieve Fontan: La Poudre C'est Moi: Les Boites a Poudre, Estimations Et Resultats D'encheres

    Genevieve Fontan: La Poudre C'est Moi: Les Boites a Poudre, Estimations Et Resultats D'encheres

  • A Collectors Guide Book to Estee Lauder Powder Compacts 1963 - 2015
  • : Dior: The Art of Color

    Dior: The Art of Color

  • A' Lelia Bundles: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker (Lisa Drew Books (Paperback))

    A' Lelia Bundles: On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker (Lisa Drew Books (Paperback))

  • Aileen Ribeiro: Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art

    Aileen Ribeiro: Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art

  • Andrea Benoit: VIVA MAC: AIDS, Fashion, and the Philanthropic Practices of MAC Cosmetics

    Andrea Benoit: VIVA MAC: AIDS, Fashion, and the Philanthropic Practices of MAC Cosmetics

  • Andrew P. Tobias: Fire and Ice: The Story of Charles Revson, The Man who Built the Revlon Empire

    Andrew P. Tobias: Fire and Ice: The Story of Charles Revson, The Man who Built the Revlon Empire

  • Angeloglou, Maggie: A history of make-up

    Angeloglou, Maggie: A history of make-up

  • Anne Camilli, Jean-Marie Martin-Hattemberg: An ode to the complexion: the art of skincare and beauty objects from the 18th century to the present
  • Autumn Whitefield-Madrano: Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives

    Autumn Whitefield-Madrano: Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives

  • B., Daphne: Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism

    B., Daphne: Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism

  • Anne de Thoisy-Dallem: La poudre de beauté et ses écrins (French Edition)

    Anne de Thoisy-Dallem: La poudre de beauté et ses écrins (French Edition)

  • Sarah Hue-Williams: A Kind of Magic: Art Deco Vanity Cases

    Sarah Hue-Williams: A Kind of Magic: Art Deco Vanity Cases

  • Ruth Brandon: Ugly Beauty: Helena Rubinstein, L'Oréal, and the Blemished History of Looking Good

    Ruth Brandon: Ugly Beauty: Helena Rubinstein, L'Oréal, and the Blemished History of Looking Good

  • Jessica P. Clark: The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London

    Jessica P. Clark: The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London

  • Paula Black: The Beauty Industry: Gender, Culture, Pleasure

    Paula Black: The Beauty Industry: Gender, Culture, Pleasure

  • Collectifs: Le Bain et le Miroir: Soins du corps et cosmétiques de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance (Albums Beaux Livres) (French Edition)

    Collectifs: Le Bain et le Miroir: Soins du corps et cosmétiques de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance (Albums Beaux Livres) (French Edition)

  • Anita Croy: Terrible and Toxic Makeup (The Bizarre History of Beauty)

    Anita Croy: Terrible and Toxic Makeup (The Bizarre History of Beauty)

  • Annette Blaugrund: Dispensing Beauty in New York and Beyond: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Harriet Hubbard Ayer

    Annette Blaugrund: Dispensing Beauty in New York and Beyond: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Harriet Hubbard Ayer

  • Dayagi-Mendeles, Mikhal: Perfumes and cosmetics in the ancient world (Catalogue)

    Dayagi-Mendeles, Mikhal: Perfumes and cosmetics in the ancient world (Catalogue)

  • Michèle Fitoussi: Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty

    Michèle Fitoussi: Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty

  • Kate de Castelbajac: The Face of the Century

    Kate de Castelbajac: The Face of the Century

  • Fred E. Basten: Max Factor: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World

    Fred E. Basten: Max Factor: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World

  • Frances Johnson: Compacts, Powders and Paint: With Values

    Frances Johnson: Compacts, Powders and Paint: With Values

  • Geoffrey Jones: Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

    Geoffrey Jones: Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

  • Tiffany M. Gill: Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)

    Tiffany M. Gill: Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)

  • Giovanni Gaidano: La Poudre: 100 anni di scatole di cipria
  • Robert Grayson: Estée Lauder: Businesswoman and Cosmetics Pioneer (Essential Lives)

    Robert Grayson: Estée Lauder: Businesswoman and Cosmetics Pioneer (Essential Lives)

  • Holly Grout: The Force of Beauty: Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic

    Holly Grout: The Force of Beauty: Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic

  • Kari Molvar: The New Beauty: A Modern Look at Beauty, Culture, and Fashion

    Kari Molvar: The New Beauty: A Modern Look at Beauty, Culture, and Fashion

  • James Gager: Miles of MAC

    James Gager: Miles of MAC

  • Jean-Marie Martin-Hattenberg: Lips of Luxury

    Jean-Marie Martin-Hattenberg: Lips of Luxury

  • Jessica Pallingston: Lipstick: A Celebration of the World's Favorite Cosmetic

    Jessica Pallingston: Lipstick: A Celebration of the World's Favorite Cosmetic

  • Farah Karim-Cooper: Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama

    Farah Karim-Cooper: Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama

  • Catherine Lanoe: La poudre et le fard - Une Histoire des Cosmetiques

    Catherine Lanoe: La poudre et le fard - Une Histoire des Cosmetiques

  • Mary Lisa Gavenas: Color Stories: Behind the Scenes of America's Billion-Dollar Beauty Industry

    Mary Lisa Gavenas: Color Stories: Behind the Scenes of America's Billion-Dollar Beauty Industry

  • Meeta Jha: The Global Beauty Industry: Colorism, Racism, and the National Body (Framing 21st Century Social Issues)

    Meeta Jha: The Global Beauty Industry: Colorism, Racism, and the National Body (Framing 21st Century Social Issues)

  • Julie Patenaude: A Catalogue of Egyptian Cosmetic Palettes in the Manchester University Museum Collection (Catalogue Egypt Collections Manchester Museum)

    Julie Patenaude: A Catalogue of Egyptian Cosmetic Palettes in the Manchester University Museum Collection (Catalogue Egypt Collections Manchester Museum)

  • Juliette Edwards: Miller's: Powder Compacts: A Collector's Guide

    Juliette Edwards: Miller's: Powder Compacts: A Collector's Guide

  • Kathy Peiss: Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture

    Kathy Peiss: Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture

  • Kyo, Cho: The Search for the Beautiful Woman: A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)

    Kyo, Cho: The Search for the Beautiful Woman: A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)

  • Larry Clayton: The Evans Book: Lighters, Compacts, Perfumers & Handbags

    Larry Clayton: The Evans Book: Lighters, Compacts, Perfumers & Handbags

  • Leonard A. Lauder: The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty

    Leonard A. Lauder: The Company I Keep: My Life in Beauty

  • Laura M. Mueller: Collector's Encyclopedia of Compacts Carry Alls & Face Powder Boxes (v. 1)

    Laura M. Mueller: Collector's Encyclopedia of Compacts Carry Alls & Face Powder Boxes (v. 1)

  • Laura M. Mueller: Collector's Encyclopedia of Compacts, Vol. 2: Carryalls and Face Powder Boxes- Identification & Values

    Laura M. Mueller: Collector's Encyclopedia of Compacts, Vol. 2: Carryalls and Face Powder Boxes- Identification & Values

  • Lisa Eldridge: Face Paint: The Story of Makeup

    Lisa Eldridge: Face Paint: The Story of Makeup

  • Lise Manniche: Sacred Luxuries: Fragrance, Aromatherapy, and Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt

    Lise Manniche: Sacred Luxuries: Fragrance, Aromatherapy, and Cosmetics in Ancient Egypt

  • Little, Clare Douglass: Makeup in the World of Beauty Vlogging: Community, Commerce, and Culture

    Little, Clare Douglass: Makeup in the World of Beauty Vlogging: Community, Commerce, and Culture

  • Lutens, Serge: Serge Lutens

    Lutens, Serge: Serge Lutens

  • Lynell Schwartz: Vintage Compacts & Beauty Accessories

    Lynell Schwartz: Vintage Compacts & Beauty Accessories

  • Madeleine Marsh: Compacts and Cosmetics: Beauty from Victorian times to the Present Day

    Madeleine Marsh: Compacts and Cosmetics: Beauty from Victorian times to the Present Day

  • Katina Manko: Ding Dong! Avon Calling!: The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated

    Katina Manko: Ding Dong! Avon Calling!: The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated

  • Lynn Gumpert: Face to Face: Shiseido and the Manufacture of Beauty

    Lynn Gumpert: Face to Face: Shiseido and the Manufacture of Beauty

  • Stephane Marais: BEAUTY FLASH

    Stephane Marais: BEAUTY FLASH

  • Mary Schaeffer Conroy: The Cosmetics Baron You've Never Heard Of: E. Virgil Neal And Tokalon (Second Edition)

    Mary Schaeffer Conroy: The Cosmetics Baron You've Never Heard Of: E. Virgil Neal And Tokalon (Second Edition)

  • Meg Cohen: Read My Lips: A Cultural History of Lipstick

    Meg Cohen: Read My Lips: A Cultural History of Lipstick

  • Howard W. Melton: American Compacts of the Art Deco Era: The Art of Elgin American, J.M. Fisher, and Others

    Howard W. Melton: American Compacts of the Art Deco Era: The Art of Elgin American, J.M. Fisher, and Others

  • Adrienne L. McLean: All for Beauty: Makeup and Hairdressing in Hollywood's Studio Era (Techniques of the Moving Image)

    Adrienne L. McLean: All for Beauty: Makeup and Hairdressing in Hollywood's Studio Era (Techniques of the Moving Image)

  • Terence McLaughlin: The gilded lily

    Terence McLaughlin: The gilded lily

  • Meredith Etherington-Smith: Ultra Vanities: Minaudieres, Necessaires, and Compacts

    Meredith Etherington-Smith: Ultra Vanities: Minaudieres, Necessaires, and Compacts

  • Morag Martin: Selling Beauty: Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750-1830 (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)

    Morag Martin: Selling Beauty: Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750-1830 (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)

  • Penny Dade: All Made Up: 100 Years of Cosmetics Advertising

    Penny Dade: All Made Up: 100 Years of Cosmetics Advertising

  • Patricia Phillippy: Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture

    Patricia Phillippy: Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture

  • Rachel C. Weingarten: Hello Gorgeous!: Beauty Products in America, '40s-'60s

    Rachel C. Weingarten: Hello Gorgeous!: Beauty Products in America, '40s-'60s

  • Sally Pointer: The Artifice of Beauty: A History and Practical Guide to Perfume and Cosmetics

    Sally Pointer: The Artifice of Beauty: A History and Practical Guide to Perfume and Cosmetics

  • Rachel Felder: Red Lipstick: An Ode to a Beauty Icon

    Rachel Felder: Red Lipstick: An Ode to a Beauty Icon

  • Richard Corson: Fashions in Makeup: From Ancient to Modern Times

    Richard Corson: Fashions in Makeup: From Ancient to Modern Times

  • Roselyn Gerson: Vintage Ladies Compacts: Identification & Value Guide

    Roselyn Gerson: Vintage Ladies Compacts: Identification & Value Guide

  • Sali Hughes: Pretty Iconic: A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World

    Sali Hughes: Pretty Iconic: A Personal Look at the Beauty Products that Changed the World

  • Sarah Jane Downing: Beauty and Cosmetics 1550–1950 (Shire Library)

    Sarah Jane Downing: Beauty and Cosmetics 1550–1950 (Shire Library)

  • Sharrie Williams: The Maybelline Story: And the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It

    Sharrie Williams: The Maybelline Story: And the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It

  • Susan Stewart: Cosmetics & Perfumes in the Roman World

    Susan Stewart: Cosmetics & Perfumes in the Roman World

  • Susan Stewart: Painted Faces: A Colourful History of Cosmetics

    Susan Stewart: Painted Faces: A Colourful History of Cosmetics

  • Susannah Walker: Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975

    Susannah Walker: Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975

  • Teresa Riordan: Inventing Beauty: A History of the Innovations that Have Made Us Beautiful

    Teresa Riordan: Inventing Beauty: A History of the Innovations that Have Made Us Beautiful

  • Val Garland: Validated: The Makeup of Val Garland

    Val Garland: Validated: The Makeup of Val Garland

  • David Yi: Pretty Boys: Legendary Icons Who Redefined Beauty (and How to Glow Up, Too)

    David Yi: Pretty Boys: Legendary Icons Who Redefined Beauty (and How to Glow Up, Too)

  • Rae Nudson: All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian

    Rae Nudson: All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian

  • Robert Mark Silverman: Doing Business in Minority Markets: Black and Korean Entrepreneurs in Chicago's Ethnic Beauty Aids Industry (Garland Studies in Entrepreneurship)

    Robert Mark Silverman: Doing Business in Minority Markets: Black and Korean Entrepreneurs in Chicago's Ethnic Beauty Aids Industry (Garland Studies in Entrepreneurship)

  • Erika Thomas: Max Factor and Hollywood: A Glamorous History

    Erika Thomas: Max Factor and Hollywood: A Glamorous History

  • Cheryl Thompson: Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada's Black Beauty Culture

    Cheryl Thompson: Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada's Black Beauty Culture

  • Mark Tungate: Branded Beauty: How Marketing Changed the Way We Look

    Mark Tungate: Branded Beauty: How Marketing Changed the Way We Look

  • Julie Willett: The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia

    Julie Willett: The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia

  • Woodhead, Lindy: War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry

    Woodhead, Lindy: War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry

  • Woodruff-Brooks, Cheryl: Golden Beauty Boss: The Story of Madame Sara Spencer Washington and the Apex Empire

    Woodruff-Brooks, Cheryl: Golden Beauty Boss: The Story of Madame Sara Spencer Washington and the Apex Empire

Recommended reading

  • Ada Calhoun: Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

    Ada Calhoun: Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

  • Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Victoria Rose Pass, Christopher Wilson: Design History Beyond the Canon

    Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Victoria Rose Pass, Christopher Wilson: Design History Beyond the Canon

  • Andi Zeisler: Feminism and Pop Culture: Seal Studies

    Andi Zeisler: Feminism and Pop Culture: Seal Studies

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We Should All Be Feminists

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We Should All Be Feminists

  • Dana Thomas: Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

    Dana Thomas: Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

  • Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation

    Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation

  • Linda M. Scott: Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism

    Linda M. Scott: Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism

  • Linda Nochlin: Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays (Icon Editions)

    Linda Nochlin: Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays (Icon Editions)

  • Linda Nochlin: Representing Women

    Linda Nochlin: Representing Women

  • Marisa Meltzer: Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music

    Marisa Meltzer: Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music

  • Mason Klein: Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power (Jewish Museum)

    Mason Klein: Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power (Jewish Museum)

  • Norma Broude: Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany

    Norma Broude: Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany

  • Norma Broude: Power of Feminist Art

    Norma Broude: Power of Feminist Art

  • Professor David M. Lubin: Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America (Yale Publications in the History of Art)

    Professor David M. Lubin: Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America (Yale Publications in the History of Art)

  • Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist: Essays

    Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist: Essays

  • Lucy Jane Santos: Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium

    Lucy Jane Santos: Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium

  • Susan Faludi: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

    Susan Faludi: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

  • Wanda M. Corn: The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935

    Wanda M. Corn: The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935

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