The 5-Minute Face: The Quick & Easy Makeup Guide for Every Womanis a best-selling book in the makeup category. Carmindy helps women who don't know how to apply makeup for optimal results. The book has gotten many very positive reviews from readers. Here's a couple of comments at Amazon;

In this book, Carmindy provides makeup instructions for women of all skin colors, skin types and ages. The instructions are detailed enough to be able to achieve the look, but simple enough that anyone could follow them. She also gives tips on what types of products to buy and in what colors. In the back of the book Carmindy lists two brands that she recommends for each of the products she mentioned in the book - an expensive brand, for those of us who can afford to splurge, and a common drugstore brand, for those of us who can't!

I am a huge fan of the show, and love the makeup Carmindy does. She always makes women look natural, beautiful, and sexy. I love the book because she gives all her techniques, and better yet ACTUAL products, for achieving the looks. And she does this for every age, skin tone, special occasion, and everyday look possible. Plus, it's easy to do yourself. As a young mom who no longer hits the night scene, I find myself stuck in the same old without the expendable money to try the newest products in the newest colors for my skin and hair color. That's why this book is great. It's simple, but complete. My only critique is that she stops giving advice past the 50's crew, and there's no makeup suggestions in there for us fitness fanatics (we want to look good too - hey sometimes it doesn't happen till the end of the day!). Carmindy does a beautiful job and I found the number of pics just right to give a visual to the look she was portraying. I am buying two of these books as gifts. Highly recommended!