Toss the Gloss ― Beauty Tips, Tricks & Truths for Women 50+

Forget about makeup reclaiming youth, says Andrea Q. Robinson. Good makeup reclaims you.

Robinson is the ultimate beauty-industry insider. Her illustrious career included turns as chief marketing officer of Estee Lauder, president of Tom Ford, beauty editor at Vogue, and president of Ralph Lauren’s fragrance brand. Along the way, she was a constant champion for real women?women who wanted their natural looks enhanced, not covered up with layers of goop and gloss, and who wanted products that would preserve their beauty, not imitate someone else’s fantasy version of how a woman should look.

Now, Robinson shares her decades of experience in this honest, straightforward guide for women fifty and over. She reveals tricks of the trade about skincare and makeup, and divulges the secrets to maximizing a woman’s authentic, signature beauty by embracing her natural features?not hiding them.

In Toss the Gloss, readers will learn:

How cosmetics companies seduce buyers into spending money on the wrong products
Why less is more when applying (the right!) cosmetics
How to enhance your features without needles and knives

With this inspiring book as a guide, readers will feel fresher, healthier, prettier, and more confident?at any age.

Andrea Q. Robinson is known for her many leadership positions in the cosmetics industry. She directed and served as president of several of the industry's most outstanding luxury brands, including Ralph Lauren, Tom Ford, Prescriptives, Ultima II, Helena Rubenstein, Germaine Monteil, Alexandra de Markoff, and Bill Blass. She also served as Chief Marketing Officer of Estee Lauder and consulting CEO for a line of cosmetics in development for one of the world's most well-known makeup artists. Prior to her corporate positions, she was a magazine editor for Vogue, Mademoiselle, and Seventeen, where she created and reported on both beauty and fashion trends and discovered and developed several of the industry's biggest talents, including makeup master Kevyn Aucoin.

Andrea's mission in the beauty business has always been to help women look like and be themselves?only better. This concept has driven her creation of revolutionary industry trends and fostered her passionate interest in cosmetics for her generation. She has been recognized as an innovative business leader whose skill set has helped redefine the concept of beauty for the modern woman. Andrea has served on the boards of Cosmetic Executive Women and The Fashion Group International and has received multiple awards such as Cosmetic Executive Women's "Legends and Leaders" award, Women’s Wear Daily's "Marketing Innovator of the Year" award, and several back-to-back FiFi awards (the Oscars of the beauty industry) for "Fragrance Star of the Year."

Andrea has two children and lives in New York City.