I found this absolute gem of a book (which I believe is now out of print) and I wanted to share and possibly brag about it a little with all you make up & fashion connoisseurs. He was the inspiration behind so many of today's world renowned make up artists. His first book was published in 1977, titled Designing Your Face and then followed by Styling Your Face in 1981. Then Vogue Fashion Editor Polly Allen Mellen called him "the most talented make-up artist in the world". In her foreword to this book she describes working with Bandy a constant learning experience as she observed him perform his craft with passion, quality and perfection. He never veered from wanting to transform a face into the most beautiful face ever, concentrating on, studying and experimenting with the stages of change a face undergoes.

The book is divided into fifteen chapters, each chapter is devoted to one facial design, eleven for women and the rest for men. The chapters include The Natural Face, The Glamorous Face (above) The Fantasy Face, The Great American Face, The Evening Face and The Exotic Face.

Here's a slight variation to the way most of us (if not all) apply foundaton: he suggests applying to a cleansed and moisturized face 3 drops of liquid foundation plus two drops of distilled water. Mix in the palm of your hand and massage into the skin with your fingertips, blending downward onto the neck.

Here's a bit of shading advice: With the fingertip place a dot of grey-brown shading cream underneath the bottom edge of the cheekbone directly below the highest frontal point of that cheekbone- usually directly downward from the outside corner of the eye. Touch and press the grey-brown dot backwards underneath the cheekbone to the ear. Make sure there are no lines of demarcation or edges visible when the blending is complete.

And voila' you now have Marlene Dietrich style cheekbones!!