Kevyn Aucoin Quotes

Makeup should be fun, not fascist.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.

Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

I understood early that beauty was power.

I also have this incredible love for women.

Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.

I spent much of my life hiding.

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.

No amount of makeup can mask an ugly heart.

Everyone is beautiful to someone.

If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.

I'm very passionate about what I do.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

The future belongs to thouse with open minds aand open hearts, who can appreciate beauty in all it's forms.

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.

I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul, and sometimes even in myself.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

I never went wrong by being myself.

I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.

There are no rules when it comes to makeup!

This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the case for many of us, Tori's ancestry is a mix of races and religions, philosophies and professions, fortunes and foibles. What to some may seem like a family tree grown wild and untamed is actually a mighty oak that has weathered life's many storms and can still put out a rare and beautiful blossom like Tori.

Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.

I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.