First of all, about THE PICTURES of the BEFORE-AFTERs:.... WOW is the word I have to use!

When the reader first looks at all the before photos of the models, one wonders how Christopher is going to transform the ladies.(?) Truly!
How is he going to do it?

But then, Christopher takes the reader through each transformation, step by step and VOILA, the gals are transformed into beauties!

HE does not use trick photography or plastic surgery. Instead, Christopher carefully analyzes each of the ladies' strength and he improves them, and then he looks at their flaws and he minimizes them by choosing more appropriate clothing, focusing on their skin types & facial qualities (eg:bushy eyebrows), and redoing their hair styles (via conditioning, coloring, trimming, cutting,...). It's amazing how improving just those three aspects, updated the models by 10-15 years (or more)! All I can say is that a person has to read this book to understand what I'm talking about.

Secondly, even if the reader does not resemble any of the ladies in this book, it does not matter, because Christopher's ideas can be applied to a majority of us (whether we are olive or fair skinned, or skinny or over-weight, or needing to update our 20 year old perms and teased-out hair styles, etc). I refer to this book often, when I need an inspiration. For example, when I'm invited to go to a luncheon, & I'm tempted to slap on my comfortable "uniform", I stop and think about what colors would flatter me more, just as Christopher does with his models.