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AuthorKevyn Aucoin
Cover artistKevyn Aucoin
LanguageEnglish
Subjectcosmetics
PublisherLittle, Brown
Publication date
October 4, 2000
Publication placeUnited States
Pages176
OCLC0316286443
Preceded byMaking Faces (1999) 

Face Forward is a cosmetics book written by Kevyn Aucoin. It was a New York Times bestseller.[1]

Aucoin's portrait subjects include Julia Roberts, Sharon Stone, Martha Stewart, Tori Amos and Aucoin's own mother. Little, Brown reported a 275,000-copy first printing (compared to 164,000 for his last book, Making Faces), and the publishing company had already ordered three more press runs by the end of the month, for a total of 425,000 copies.[2]

Promotion

A 12-page excerpt from the book ran in the October 2000 issue of InStyle magazine.[2] The magazine also hosted a release party in September 2000.[2] Oprah devoted a full episode to the book on October 6, of that year and Aucoin appeared on the Today Show on both October 10 and 11.[2]

References

  1. ^ "New Titles This Week". The New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d Donahue, Dick (October 16, 2000), "behind the bestsellers". Publishers Weekly. 247 (42):24