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Brown Skin: Dr. Susan Taylor's Prescription for Flawless Skin, Hair, and Nails Editorial Review:
At last -- a book devoted to the concerns of people of color that will help you enhance and protect the health and beauty of your skin, hair, and nails. Dr. Susan Taylor, a Harvard-trained dermatologist and a beautiful woman of color, bases her advice on more than fifteen years' experience treating patients in private practice and at the first-of-its-kind Skin of Color Center in New York City, which she directs.
Her quizzes, product recommendations, and patient-tested solutions provide information you can use today! She explains:
What makes skin of color beautiful -- yet vulnerable: Melanin provides rich color and sun protection, but makes skin prone to scars and marks. Dr. Taylor shares cleansing, care, and cover-up techniques.
Strategies for satin-smooth skin: Learn how to nip breakouts and rashes in the bud, avoiding discolorations.
Scar Rx: From cuts to cosmetic surgery, Dr. Taylor explains how to prevent and camouflage disfiguring scars.
Makeup made easy: Skin tones can vary on a woman's body. Dr. Taylor tells how to choose and use makeup for a perfect match year-round.
Health help for hair: From short naturals to hot combs, chemical hair relaxers, braids, weaves, and locks, Dr. Taylor tells how to style hair safely to avoid damage, hair loss, and skin irritation -- whatever style readers choose.
Skin cancer savvy: The danger signs are different in people of color. Dr. Taylor explains what to look for.
Brown Skin offers comprehensive, culturally specific answers to help you look and feel your best, to recognize and prevent problems, and to get the right treatment for you and your family when needed.
Customer Reviews: Very Informative! This book is very informative when it comes to skin care for all types of skin. It has been very helpful in helping me to understand skin, hair and nail care.
Boring Book !!!! This book made me feel like I was studying and I did not like it one bit. I knew alot of the helpful tips in the book already. I did not finish it I feel foolish for buying it.
Worst book Ever....DON'T BUY IT. Brown Skin: Dr. Susan Taylor's Prescription for Flawless Skin, Hair, and Nails
This was a total waste of time and money...I returned it. It was way too generic with information that I already know. I was hoping for more in depth information.
Everything you've already read and heard Kudos to Dr. Taylor for her personal achievements, but that does not compensate for the mediocrity that is "Brown Skin". At times it reads like a bland encyclopedia of skin issues and other times like contradictory medical tripe. Reading this book only left me more frustrated at the dearth of good in-depth skin/hair care advice for people of color. Even more frustrating, I emailed her people asking for the ingredient list for her product line. They wouldn't give me a straight answer. Instead they just repeated verbatim the advertisement from the website.
Bottomline: If you know absolutely nothing about hair/skin then this book will be great for you, otherwise pass.
A must read for women of color This book answered so many questions I have had about my skin. Things I never remember to ask a doctor and other things I have asked that they had no answers for me. Maybe it's because often times I represent a minority of their clientele so they don't care to or haven't taken the time to know. This book should serve you as a reference book, one you will turn to from time to time and one you will want to give to the women in your life. Your daughters, your mom and others. Thank you Dr. Taylor for being so thorough.
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