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

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

I spent much of my life hiding.

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.

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.

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

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