Makeup Quotes

"Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world."

Marilyn Monroe

"The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy."

Yves Saint-Laurent

"You think I'm prettyWithout any make-up onYou think I'm funnyWhen I tell the puch line wrongI know you get meSo I'll let my walls come down, down"

Katy Perry

"Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic and REAL, it doesn’t need gloss or polish or glitter to shine."

Mandy Hale

"Maybe it’s NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it."

Mandy Hale

"Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup.Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain."

Marian Keyes

"All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy’s credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-up, wouldn’t be more than average-looking, but with all that stuff look too plastic to be pretty."

Hannah Harrington, Speechless

"How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death."

Dean Koontz, False Memory

"GOD in not just in the details, He is the detail."

TemitOpe Ibrahim

"Minimalism is a girl's best asset, blend tones, smudge hard outlines; if all else fails; Photoshop it."

Judith Chambers

"‎Lipstick is really magical. It holds more than a waxy bit of color - it holds the promise of a brilliant smile, a brilliant day, both literally and figuratively."

Roberta Gately

"When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters."

Ilene Beckerman

"Women! Dressed to kill the woman in them."

Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

"Mia: I was sixteen when I first realized my mom was more concerned about my appearance than I was… I’ll be talking to my mom and realize she hasn’t heard a word because she’s studying my face to see if the foundation I’m using is a good match for my skin tone."

Mia Fontaine

"When I put on makeup, I'm not doing it to pander to antiquated patriarchal ideals of feminine beauty. I'm doing it because it makes mr feel good."

Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS

"Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you’ll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty."

Rebecca McNutt, Listen is Silent, or The Usurer

"There's no better makeup than confidence"

Shakira Ripoll

"Every woman with her own makeup!"

Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

"Leave your hair natural. Let your beard grow out. Leave the makeup in the bag. Wear comfortable clothes. Stop worrying so much about your looks and start looking around you. You have missed so much beauty trying to become beautiful. You have missed your own worth trying to become worthy. Let the mask break open. Let it lie on the floor. Let yourself be seen. Let yourself see."

Vironika Tugaleva

"Beauty is not about make up it’s about what it makes you to be from within."

Amit Abraham

"The beauty of a woman is not in her facial makeup but in the kindness of her soul."

Debasish Mridha

"Other young women were more than kind when it came to teaching him the basics of makeup artistry, but he did not like the idea of foundation, knowing enough alchemy to realize it had historically been made with lead and mercury."

Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

"Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time."

Shannon L. Alder

"Love feeds on deception."

Erol Ozan

"No ornament can make a person look beautiful if the person has a bad heart! A good heart is the finest ornament, the best makeup, the best cloth, the best jewel, the best lipstick and the best earring!"

Mehmet Murat ildan

"Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy place."

Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

"Under her thick pancake makeup, her sin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy place."

Sarah Addison Allen, First Frost

"The mind is just a delusion not a reality. If the materials are perception of our mind, then why we cannot turn into handsome guys and beautiful ladies without putting a hundred grams of makeup powder?"

M.F. Moonzajer

"The differences between women are all cosmetic."

Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

"When all the fights stop, so does the passion."

Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

"Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup –and our destiny."

Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

"I had a dream about you last night. You set a timer on in the bathroom to prove how long it takes me to get ready. So I shaved your legs, made up your face and gave you lashes. An hour later you thanked God for not making you a woman."

Crystal Woods, Dreaming is for lovers

"Though Queen Victoria in England had suggested that makeup was impolite, even vanity, Gideon saw it as yet another weapon. It was not so different from magic."

Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

"For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner."

Cheryl Cory

"I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint."

D.A. Paul, Boost

"Thanks, but no thanks. I need my makeup honey. - Carol"

Matthew Leeth

"She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face."

Amit Kalantri, One Bucket of Tears

"Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve?"

Katie McGarry, Dare You To

"That really pissed me off, because I am worth it, goddamn it!”“I know you—”“Still talking here!"

Robin L. Rotham, Alien Overnight

"It's hard to say which I like more, the perfectly happy days or the hours right after we've ended a good fight."

Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

"Ambition is greed without makeup."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Some women are good-looking … until they change their hairstyle."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Her eyes are shockingly black - shocking not because black eyes are particularly rare, but because she's wearing smoky gray eyeshadow and dark eyeliner to accentuate them further. Makeup, while the world is ending."

N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

"Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood."

Alison Fell, The Element -inth in Greek

"Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude."

Rob Lowe

"I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about."

Andie MacDowell

"I don't want costumes and makeup between me and the audience - I want more direct communication. There's something for me about being honest on stage, and I'm at my most honest when I'm behind a piano. So I prefer my concert performances."

Jason Robert Brown

"When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally."

Natalie Dormer

"I personally think my sister is so stunning without makeup. And she doesn't wear that much makeup because she has the best skin color."

Gigi Hadid

"I remembered a long time ago when 'A League of Their Own' came out, and they had the opening sequence with an older Geena Davis. We all just thought it was amazing, but you find out it actually wasn't Geena Davis; it wasn't makeup. It was basically finding an actress that looked like her, and then Geena just dubbed her voice."

James Wan

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