You Being Beautiful Review
What You Should Know
ìYOU: Being Beautiful: The Owner’s Manual to Inner and Outer Beautyî is one of a series of collaborations between Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon, and Dr. Michael Roizen, an anesthesiologist and internist, both of whom are Americans. In fact, it is the follow-up book to the ìYou: Staying Youngî tome.
The authors aim to demolish the popular idea that beauty is vanity. Instead, the book espouses on your humanity, which encompasses beauty from the inside out. According to their website, RealAge.com, the better you look, the more likeable, competent, employable, exciting, and confident you are. This, in turn, results in your happiness, health, fulfillment, and ability to excel. In short, beauty is about thriving inside and outside.
List of Ingredients
You: Being Beautiful is a hardcover book that is also available as an audio book. The main ingredients, basically, are the book and the individual.
Product Features
The book is available over Amazon.com with a discounted price of $17.81. Of course, it is also available over other online retailers at varying prices.
The book offers practical tips on everything about beautifying yourself from mental health to physical appearance. These tips include but are not limited to healthy diets, basic hygiene, exercise habits, cosmetic enhancements, mechanisms to cope with stress, advice on relationship issues, management of energy levels, prevention of injury and even the creation of positive work and home environments.
You: Being Beautiful outlines personalized steps to look beautiful, feel beautiful, and be beautiful. First, you take a You:Q test to determine where you are in the beauty scale and where you want to be. Second, you adapt the specific tips contained in the book to achieve your goals in beauty.
Pro’s
- It is a holistic approach to beauty, which cannot be said of other beautification methods.
- It is written by experts in the medical field, which gives an appearance of expertness.
Con’s
- It is not a book that provides expert guidance on safe and effective weight loss.
- It does not come with a free gift upon purchase, even an accessory to make consumers feel beautiful.
- The concepts were presented in an oversimplified manner (take a shower, comb your hair, etc) such that it gives an impression of being written for either elementary school pupils or those with questionable hygiene practices. The less-than-sterling illustrations did not help either.
- There was no money back guarantee.
- The advices offered are contradictory in some instances.
- The quizzes can be redundant, not to mention inconvenient, to the serious readers.
Conclusion
You: Being Beautiful is a good book for those who wish to pick up practical tips on personal hygiene and mental health as well as basic information on cosmetic procedures. With its funny wordings, it can be a good reading material, too. However, its flaws primarily lie with its inability to address specific beauty issues in depth. Instead, it settles for generalizations that even a middle school student ought to know. In conclusion, you are better off just practicing what you know in basic hygiene and grooming as well as adapting common measures.
