Makeup Quotes

“She kisses the children goodnight, leaving lipstick on their foreheads and a trail of Chanel No.5.”
― Camilla Gibb, Sweetness in the Belly

“But if you want to know who the scariest person in the group is, look for the one who’s been fighting zombies without smearing her eyeliner.”
― Mira Grant, Feedback

“That night Serena dressed to meet Zahi. She used a metallic green eye shadow on the top lids and the outer half of the bottom lids so that her eyes looked like a jungle cat's. Two coats of black mascara completed them, and then she smudged a light gold gloss on her lips.
She took a red skirt from the closet. The material was snakelike, shimmering black, then red. She slipped it on and tied the black strings of a matching bib halter around her neck and waist. She painted red-and-black glittering flames on her legs and rubbed glossy shine on her arms and chest.
Finally, she took the necklace she had bought at the garage sale and fixed it in her hairline like the headache bands worn by flappers back in the 1920's. The jewels hung on her forehead, making her look like an exotic maharani.
She sat at her dressing table and painted her toenails and fingernails gold, then looked in the mirror. A thrill jolted through her as it always did. No matter how many times she saw her reflection after the transformation, her image always astonished her. She looked supernatural, a spectral creature, green eyes large, skin glowing, eyelashes longer, thicker. Everything about her was more forceful and elegant- an enchantress goddess. She couldn't pull away from her reflection. It was as if the warrior in her had claimed the night.”
― Lynne Ewing, Into the Cold Fire

“What have you got on your eyelids?"

"Greater self-esteem!”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

“It's not your makeup but how you are made up.”
― Tapan Ghosh

“Everyone is beautiful, even the ones who try to hide it behind a makeup.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“Makeup is usually used to fake good or better skin.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Make up, lipstick, nail polish, high heels, sexy lingerie are all some of the tools that can help keep the portal of sensual into your relationship opened.”
― Lebo Grand

“1. Start with your base. Bases come in convenient stick form, but I prefer a liquid one. A sallow skin need a pinkish tone. For a ruddy complexion, beige is flattering. Smooth the base right up to the hairline (you can always wipe spots off the hair with a tissue later) and blend it around the ears, on the earlobe, and down over the neck.
2. If your face is very round, smooth a darker shade at the sides, below the cheekbone, to narrow it. If your nose is too long, put the darker shade at the tip, and at the sides of the nostrils,. There are a number of possibilities depending on your bone structure.
3. A lighter shade will bring out receding features. [...]Use pale pink just under the brow and under the brow and under the eyes to bring out deep-set eyes. I don't use white under my brows because my bone structure doesn't lend itself to that. [...] I hate to see girls with TOO much white under the brow - or too much eye makeup of any kind, for that matter. If the forehead protrudes they shouldn't use the white under the brows at all. It exaggerates it. And if they have a tendency to be puffy - and everybody has puffy days - they look worse with great white blobs under the eyes.
4. The important thing about shading and contouring is to blend so carefully that you can never see where one shade ends and the other begins.
5. So start with three shades of base for the redesigning, plus white if you need it. Add a blusher that you brush on with a large soft brush made for the purpose. I like a brownish shade. It matches my natural complexion and I brush it on under my cheekbones to accent my bone structure. But a very fair skin could use a bluish pink blusher...
5. Translucent powder goes on next. It must be translucent or your careful job of shading will be covered over. And not too much. Just light dusting of it to cover the shine...
6. After powdering, take a tissue and BLOT. Then clothes won't get soiled.
7. I put on the lipstick and smooth it over with my finger - I never rub my lips together. Then I outline the lips carefully with a lipstick pencil. I never use a brush. Then BLOT. There's nothing uglier than lipstick on the teeth.”
― Joan Crawford, My Way of Life

“EYE MAKEUP
1. Makeup should be just a frame for the eyes. When you lay on all the bright-colored goop and slather white under the brows the eyes themselves are lost in camouflage. Just accent whatever God has given you with a subtle hand.
2. The more makeup a woman applies after forty the older she looks.
3. Early in my career I had plucked and plucked so that I'd have those spindly little lines that were the fashion then. When eyebrows came back a lot of girls found that they couldn't grow them anymore. They's plucked out the roots. I encouraged new growth by using castor oil and yellow Vaseline - half and half - and rubbing it the wrong way, toward the nose, with a brush. I still use it, it makes my brows grow like mad. It's good for lashes, too, but I always get the oil in my eyes, then they water and turn red. Brows frame the eyes. Encourage them. for they're a great asset.”
― Joan Crawford, My Way of Life

“If tomorrow brings new hope, I hope it brings back your sensuality.”
― Lebo Grand

“Can we get this makeup thing over before we’re late for school?”

“Oh, right.” She jumped up from the bed and opened up her backpack.

I hated wearing makeup, which was why I never wore any. So needless to say, I wasn't looking forward to this.

She held out a tube of something for me to see. “This will help conceal the dark circles under your eyes. And this,” she said, showing me another tube, “will help to conceal the blotchy spots on your cheeks.”

I grunted. “Do you have anything that will help conceal the hump on my back?”
― Amanda Abram, The Importance of Getting Revenge

“She dug through the clothes packed in the trunk until she found the blue halter top and black jeans she had been wearing the night Veto died. She wasn't sure why she had saved them, but she was glad she had, now. She was going to wear them tonight in honor of Veto.
She carried them back to her room, stood in front of the mirror over her dresser, and slipped on the gold earrings that had been a gift from Veto. Then she started to dress. She rubbed glitter lotion over her arms and painted black lines on her eyelids. She rolled on her mascara, then stood back.”
― Lynne Ewing, Night Shade

“Some of the most faked things are a signature, love, a smile, happiness, an orgasm, intelligence, and good skin.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In some ways, makeup can contribute to our success.”
― Sahara Sanders, Makeup Matters

“Wearing things such as makeup and fake hair is some people’s subconscious way of showing God where they are adamant He made a mistake.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Makeup often seems to be used to hide a woman’s beauty.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Calliope leaned forward on the vanity, which was littered with gleaming silver beauty wands and powders and a fresh manicolor mitt—all of it arrayed carefully before her, like weapons polished and laid out for battle. Her own lethal tools, which had always made her so dangerously beautiful.”
― Katharine McGee, The Dazzling Heights

“Too often girls cover up their highlights instead of their shadows. And too often the right boys are too late to notice.”
― Giovannie de Sadeleer

“There were times when the mood of woman was a result of how she felt. Now days her mood depends on how her eyebrows are been drawn.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Makeup does NOT define my beauty. I am unapologetically me, and I love myself flaws and all! As a matter of fact, I feel most beautiful when I’m not wearing makeup. I prefer healthy, glowing skin from the inside out. I drink plenty of water, green tea, healthy smoothies with fresh fruits/vegetables, and I absolutely LOVE my daily Clinique skin care routine. I encourage girls and women all over the world to love the skin they’re in! Strive to have healthy looking skin, NOT perfect looking skin.”
― Stephanie Lahart

“She took down the framed manuscript from the kitchen wall. It was Kendra's prized possession, and part of her felt guilty for what she planned, but it had to be done. She carefully removed the parchment from its frame, then searched through the piles of translations and notes on the kitchen table. Finally she found the Secret Scroll on the chair where Kendra had been the night before. She carried both manuscripts upstairs and set them on her desk.
Next she gathered paints and brushes and sat down. She studied the artwork on the Secret Scroll, then slowly began copying its rich patterns of gold, red, and blue onto Kendra's old manuscript.
It was late afternoon when she finished. She studied her work. She had managed to copy the exotic birds and animals hidden in the foliage on the borders, and even the detailed picture of the goddess locking the jaws of hell. Her work was rough, but at a distance it would fool Toby or any of the Regulators, especially since they were afraid to touch it.
Satisfied, she went to her closet. She searched through her clothes until she found the strapless top with the slit in the front. She slipped it over her head, then grabbed a silky black skirt and stepped into it. She carried her stiletto boots to the bed and tugged them on.
At last she drew black liquid eyeliner over her top lid, added green glitter shadow, rolled thick mascara on her lashes, and brushed her hair. She added gloss to her lips and rubbed sparkle lotion over her arms and chest. Then she remembered the dragon stencils. Soon, she had a sinuous dragon adorning her thigh between the bottom of her skirt and the top of her boots. She liked the look. She turned in front of the full-length mirror behind the bathroom door.
"Dynamite," she whispered. Her reflection thrilled her. She looked vamped-out and mystical. At once, she sensed the fierce power of the dragon rising in her. She felt like an invincible goddess-warrior.”
― Lynne Ewing, The Secret Scroll

“Face makeup and sober dress exhibit beauty and attraction; similarly, words' makeup, how its usage takes place, and how one employs that, in a sentence; it shows an impact and authentication.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“...she slicked her lips with a balm she suspected was secretly made in the same factory as ChapStick, but at the end of the mixing process, instead of pouring it into a tube, they poured it into a little round plastic thing, added a drop of vanilla, and sold it for sixteen dollars.”
― Holmes, Linda

“START WITH A CLEAN SKIN:
For removing ordinary street makeup I use a good cleansing cream, and I have a set of brushes—soft, medium, and heavy—that I plug into an electric outlet so that they vibrate. They work the cream into the pores and generally stimulate the skin, bringing the blood to the surface—the skin's best nourishment. If your brushes don't plug in it doesn't matter. Just use elbow grease (good exercise for the arms) and you'll get the same results. I make sure that I get at all the ears, and down to wherever my dress began... Then I quickly apply a moisture cream.”
― Joan Crawford, My Way of Life

“Makeup often seems to be used to deceive others into thinking that the woman is not, or is no longer, sane.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Makeup often makes a woman seem like two women.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Makeup often makes a woman look like another woman; and/or like she is another woman.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Makeup often makes a man look like he is cheating, not behaving himself, by making his woman look unlike herself.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Right/Wrong Things To Say To A Client About Hair and Makeup

Don’t Say… Your hair and makeup say you’re trying too hard to look young.
Do Say… Keys to beauty are finding the styles that work best for you now. Could we take a look at an idea book? When you look at your face we have internal and external lines. Let me show you how we can work on this to your advantage.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today