Totally You!: Every Girl's Guide to Looking Good and Feeling Great!

by Kate Tym, Gillian Martin (Illustrator)

A collection of great tips for looking your best includes fun and easy homemade recipes for do-it-yourself hair, skin, and body treatments; hair, clothes, nails, and make-up style tips; and beauty quizzes, facts, and horror stories. Original.

Genres: Middle Grade

160 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1999

Reviews

[Shannon · Rating 2 out of 5]

I owned this book as a tween and it has been living rent-free in my head for nearly a quarter of a century. When I found a copy online, I decided to revisit it to see if I still found it as odd as I did when I first read it. In short: yes—and on top of that, it didn’t age well. There are some good beginner meditation techniques in it that I think hold up now, but most of the guidance and recipes are too advanced or costly for an actual tween. There is an abundance of ableism, classism and cultural appropriation in the book, as well as many other viewpoints that have not aged well.

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read it in 4th grade or at least I got it in 4th grade, read it sometime in the preteen years.

[Emme · Rating 5 out of 5]

My bible when I was 10-13