It covers endless ways makeup has been used in countries across the world, from women wearing red lipstick in defiance of Hitler during WWII or to oppose government action in Nicaraguan protests, to the use of makeup by Transformistas in Venezuela, to Japanese women using it to maintain femininity as they entered the workplace during WWI, to skin bleaching in India, to government control of appearance in North Korea…. She has written and presented three radio series for BBC Scotland and has collaborated with musicians and visual artists. On the one hand, both titles are witty comments on the memoir genre, asking questions about truth and memory and acknowledging how much must necessarily remain hidden. That i rated this a little lower than the first book probably reflects my own particular interest in the years of childhood, and the way children view the world. A tour de force of artistic licence projecting the past through the lens of the artist's imagination .

Ranging across time and place, All Made Up shows how makeup contributes to and reinforces social definitions of gender and race, even as it has been a tool of creativity and subversion. Unfortunately the misreadings have not been edited out so, of course, the spell is broken each time. Anyway, anyone interested in the social, political, or historical role of cosmetics across time and cultures, this is the book to read. That said, I appreciated learning about some of the ways that makeup has played a role in politics and protests.Need the help of an experienced Hair and Makeup artist with an eye for detail, expert skills and professional approach? It can be used, across time and history and cultures, to brand women as vain and superficial while at the same time wearing make-up was a necessary part of women succeeding in society or the workforce. This is less a history of makeup within beauty culture (as the title suggested to me), and more a dive into how made up appearances intersect with economics, social values, racism, capitalism and politics. Her awareness of the opposite sex was limited; she was more excited by Latin and the school orchestra than make-up or boys. While the suffering in This is Not About Me and this second instalment, All Made Up, is vividly, unsparingly described, it is not the focus or drive of the books.

My reading of this book is that it is a little more cerebral, a little more guarded, a little more reserved than her earlier book - the stoicism which was such a hallmark of the first, and in some ways remarkable in the child, somehow left me wanting to be let IN a little more, in this one. Reading this book makes me feel seen, it puts into words the confusing, intangible, vexing internal struggle that many women I know face when it comes to makeup.All quite depressing, except for the Latin and Music teachers who literally opened new worlds to Janice. It's evocative of an era - the 1970s - but an intensely personal tale of growing up within a dysfunctional family where everything important is left unsaid. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Read this to come fact to face with Janice Galloway's bright, assertive intellect but read it also to encounter the darker side of Scotland's twentieth century psyche. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers.