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A far cry away from the unsure teenager she played in movies, Molly Ringwald shows in her recent book release that she is more than Pretty in Pink. Getting the Pretty Back Friendship, Family and Finding the Perfect Lipstick (Harper Collins), gives insight to Molly’s off screen life.

The vivacious red-head was asked two months after her fortieth birthday to play the mother of a teenager in Secret Life of the American Teenager. For Ringwald this brought back nostalgic memories of her teenage years both on and off camera.

Ringwald covers topics on a wide range of subjects like She Gives Good Email and How to Pack a Carry-on Bag, which lets face it we all need another lesson or two in packing for a vacation or business trip. She offers anecdotes of her experiences with parenting, getting older, and even being a wine snob after living in Paris and coming back to the United States.

While there are great tips about picking the perfect hair cut for your shape and the perfect lipstick for your skin tone, Ringwald gives the reader a look into her personal life and allows them to see that she is more than the awkward looking teenager audiences grew to love in movies like The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles.

A break from the traditional celebrity tell-all, Getting the Pretty Back is more about looking back over her forty years of life and celebrating the lessons learned than giving behind the scenes scoops on her former costars. As a matter of fact, Ringwald barely mentions her own screen life. Ringwald sincerely conveys to the reader that prettiness is a state of mind and describes the steps one should take to achieve it.

Readers can expect to light some candles (lets say 16 of them) and open a bottle of 1989 Le Petrus, a wine that Ringwald considers the best wine in the world, while learning from the trials and triumphs of Ringwald.

Getting The Pretty Back is illustrated by Ruben Toledo who also illustrated for Nina Garcia’s four books. Toledo’s illustrations add just the right amount of whimsy to compliment Ringwald’s honest and open voice.

~Crystal-Marie Mitchell is Owner/Creative Director of IsrylDesigns in San Francisco.