At first glance, I would have given this book five stars. On almost every page, there are large full page color photos - unlike most of the books I've seen. There are lots of hairstyles included, unlike some books. I took away two stars because 1)the figures showing how to create the styles are drawings, not photos, and are hard to decipher and 2)the book is organized by synthetic, human, and natural hair instead of by hairstyle. So the hairstyles types repeat themselves for each hairtype for reasons beyond me. I would have liked to see all the microbraids, braids, twists, locks, nube nube, et cetera styles together instead of the human or the sythetic styles. There are no how-tos for the various styles, but the book states that the pictures are mainly for ideas. Had there been directions, I would have given this book five stars for its beautiful large photos. I still like this book best so far for the up-to-date (2007) styles and nice pictures.