wow i hadn't heard of the nars book. it sounds really good!
my mom gave me the bobbi brown teenage beauty book for christmas a long time ago and it really doesn't contain much that you can't read in teen magazines...all those vague instructions, all the conventional knowledge...
i considered purchasing an aucoin book (can't remember which one i looked at) and i remember thinking that all the makeup looks were the same (same colors on each actress featured..).
i would love to get my hands on something like a textbook for makeup application--really technical, you know? talking about things like the "movable lid" etc. and color mixing and bone structure and things like that. does anyone know of a book like that?