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Beauty Library

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)
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
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
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
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
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)
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
Jessica P. Clark: The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London
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)
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
Dayagi-Mendeles, Mikhal: Perfumes and cosmetics in the ancient world (Catalogue)
Michèle Fitoussi: Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who Invented Beauty
Kate de Castelbajac: The Face of the Century
Fred E. Basten: Max Factor: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World
Frances Johnson: Compacts, Powders and Paint: With Values
Geoffrey Jones: Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry
Elise Hu: Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital
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
Zahra Hankir: Eyeliner: A Cultural History
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
Kari Molvar: The New Beauty: A Modern Look at Beauty, Culture, and Fashion
James Gager: Miles of MAC
Jean-Marie Martin-Hattenberg: Lips of Luxury
Jessica Pallingston: Lipstick: A Celebration of the World's Favorite Cosmetic
Farah Karim-Cooper: Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama
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
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)
Juliette Edwards: Miller's: Powder Compacts: A Collector's Guide
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)
Larry Clayton: The Evans Book: Lighters, Compacts, Perfumers & Handbags
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, Vol. 2: Carryalls and Face Powder Boxes- Identification & Values
Lisa Eldridge: Face Paint: The Story of Makeup
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
Lutens, Serge: Serge Lutens
Lynell Schwartz: Vintage Compacts & Beauty Accessories
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
Lynn Gumpert: Face to Face: Shiseido and the Manufacture of Beauty
Stephane Marais: BEAUTY FLASH
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
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)
Terence McLaughlin: The gilded lily
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)
Penny Dade: All Made Up: 100 Years of Cosmetics Advertising
Patricia Phillippy: Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture
Rachel C. Weingarten: Hello Gorgeous!: Beauty Products in America, '40s-'60s
Annelie Ramsbrock: The Science of Beauty: Culture and Cosmetics in Modern Germany, 1750–1930 (Worlds of Consumption)
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
Richard Corson: Fashions in Makeup: From Ancient to Modern Times
Roselyn Gerson: Vintage Ladies Compacts: Identification & Value Guide
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)
Sharrie Williams: The Maybelline Story: And the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It
Susan Stewart: Cosmetics & Perfumes in the Roman World
Susan Stewart: Painted Faces: A Colourful History of Cosmetics
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
Val Garland: Validated: The Makeup of Val Garland
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
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
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
Julie Willett: The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia
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

Recommended reading

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
Andi Zeisler: Feminism and Pop Culture: Seal Studies
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We Should All Be Feminists
Dana Thomas: Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation
Katy Kelleher: The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
Linda M. Scott: Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism
Linda Nochlin: Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays (Icon Editions)
Linda Nochlin: Representing Women
Marisa Meltzer: Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music
Mason Klein: Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power (Jewish Museum)
Norma Broude: Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany
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)
Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist: Essays
Lucy Jane Santos: Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium
Susan Faludi: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Wanda M. Corn: The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935

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