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

“Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.”
― Gwyneth Paltrow

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
― Coco Chanel

“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, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“You think I'm pretty
Without any make-up on
You think I'm funny
When I tell the puch line wrong
I know you get me
So I'll let my walls come down, down”
― Katy Perry

“I love the confidence that makeup gives me.”
― Tyra Banks

“Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn’t; violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes; pink insists; red compels. I will say to you: You are dear to me as attar of roses. Please do not get eaten.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.”
― chuck palahniuk

“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones”
― Helena Rubinstein

“i don't
wear makeup for others
the same way
i don't

decorate
my house for others.
this is my
home

&
everything i do
is for
me.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One

“My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.”
― Courtney Summers, All the Rage

“Maybe it’s NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are. Sadly, women have learned to be ashamed and apologetic about pursuits that are seen as traditionally female, such as fashion and makeup. But our society does not expect men to feel ashamed of pursuits considered generally male - sports cars, certain professional sports. In the same way, men's grooming is never suspect in the way women's grooming is - a well-dressed man does not worry that, because he is dressed well, certain assumptions might be made about his intelligence, his ability, or his seriousness. A woman, on the other hand, is always aware of how a bright lipstick or a carefully-put-together outfit might very well make others assume her to be frivolous.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“‎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

“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, Watermelon

“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

“I fought a killer and didn’t even smudge my makeup.”
― Rose Pressey, Flip That Haunted House

“For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.”
― Cheryl Cory

“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

“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

“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.”
― Claire/Mia Fontaine

“Makeup can contribute to our success.”
― Sahara Sanders, Makeup Matters

“He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“My emotions were just below the surface, threatening to spill over and ruin my makeup.”
― Kasie West, Lonely Hearts Day

“Makeup was always a dicey topic in the lesbian community, where any trace of femininity could be a betrayal of dykiness.”
― Valentine Glass, Jarring Sex

“Without will of my own, my startled sight jumped to Guenhumara's face and I saw the tide of painful color flood up to the roots of her hair, and I knew too that she had had no warning, but that unlike me, she had feared in advance; and that the heavy paint of her face had been put on as a young man takes up his armor.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword at Sunset

“The attempt to make a beautiful thing appear yet more beautiful only detracts from its intrinsic beauty”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kusamakura