Kevyn Aucoin famous quotes

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Inspirational #Happiness #Morning

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Thinking #Self #Essence

No amount of makeup can mask an ugly heart.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Heart #Makeup #Ugly

Everyone is beautiful to someone.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Beautiful #Everyone Is Beautiful

Beauty has a lot to do with character.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Inspirational #Beauty #Character

Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Inspirational #Might

Makeup should be fun, not fascist.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Fun #Makeup #Should

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

#Fashion #Lying #Responsibility

There are no rules when it comes to makeup!
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Makeup

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

#Travel #Funny Travel #Middle

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

#Beauty #Teaching #Soul

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

#Humanity #Today #Embrace

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

#Funny #Life #Beauty

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Makeup #People #Trying

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Inspirational #Fun #Thinking

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Talking #People #Tvs

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

#Growing Up #Men #Comfort

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

#Dull #Faces #Modeling

I also have this incredible love for women.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Incredibles

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

#Men #Envy #Free Spirit

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

#Fun #Ideas #Creative

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Perception

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

#Mistake #Perfection #Faces

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

#Beauty #Forgiveness #Forgiven

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Passion #Two #People

I spent much of my life hiding.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Hiding

I'm very passionate about what I do.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Passionate

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Knowing #Hatred #World

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Heart #Exercise #Makeup

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

#Karma #Essence #Different

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Looks #Ugly #Actresses

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

#Mom #Growing Up #Streisand

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Differences #Perfection #Individuality

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Makeup #Laughing #World

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

#Life #Heart #Appreciate

I understood early that beauty was power.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Understood

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Beautiful #Philosophy #Past

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.
-- Kevyn Aucoin

#Light #Quality #Energy