Makeup Quotes

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

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

All the makeup in this world can never cover up an empty brain.

~ Hafiz

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

~ Katie Mcgarry

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

~ Robin L. Rotham

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

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

The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor can it be conserved; it's a freshness, a plumpness of the cells, that's unearned and temporary, and that nothing can replicate. None of them was satisfied with it, however; already they were making attempts to alter themselves into some impossible, imaginary mould, plucking and pencilling away at their faces. I didn't blame them, having done the same once myself.

~ Margaret Atwood

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

~ Elizabeth Eulberg

Clara smoked in the shallow pool as Lana del Rey poured from her phone. She shaded her eyes. She liked the shallow pool because she could lay out, half in the sun, half in the water, and not get her hair wet. She had black eyeliner smeared under her eyes from who-knows-when, and while she never bothered to fix it, she did apply more, so she looked permanently hung over. She liked that.

~ Lisa Martens

Valkyrie smiled patiently. I like how you do your make-up. Do you use a brush, or just dip your head in the bucket?

~ Derek Landy

Ambition is greed without makeup.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I fought a killer and didn’t even smudge my makeup.

~ Rose Pressey

Primary purposes of a mirror: (1) To help civilized men realize their imperfections, and, (2) To help the imperfect hide their imperfections.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

These poor girls are just bad impersonators. They look cheap, really. There’s nothing special about them. They are just reaching out to get noticed. They don’t want to be invisible anymore. They don’t want to get lost in crowds.

~ James W. Bodden

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

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

~ Coco Chanel

The more Christian you are in this town, the more makeup you wear. I've always thought that it's because if you were to die suddenly, you'd look better for God.

~ Peter Hedges

A makeover is the rebranding of a human being.

~ 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

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

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

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

~ Dolly Parton

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

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

~ John C. Reilly

I don't really have the patience to do my hair, which is why it's always parted down the middle, slicked, in a low ponytail or a messy high bun. I'm too lazy to do my own hair, but I like doing my makeup.

~ Gigi Hadid

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

People have to learn that everybody is the same. If you wake up in the morning, even if you're a movie star, you look like everybody else. The reality is that makeup is there to help. That's what it's for.

~ Francois Nars

I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun.

~ Emma Stone

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

~ Calvin Klein

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

Working with some of the best makeup artists has taught me a lot of amazing tricks to making me feel more confident, and I can't wait to share them with you guys.

~ Kylie Jenner

One of my favorite things about working on 'Glory Daze' is getting to wear amazing '80s outfits coupled with fabulously over-the-top hair and makeup. My wardrobe usually consists of colorful sweaters, denim skirts, high-waisted shorts, crop tops, dangly earrings, jean jackets, and, of course, panty hose and shoulder pads.

~ Julianna Guill

It's amazing, coconut oil. I use it as a moisturizer. I put it in my hair when I want a kind of greasy look. I take off my makeup with it. I put a little bit in my coffee. I have coconut oil with everything.

~ Lykke Li

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

I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.

~ Ian Mckellen

If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

~ Rita Ora

America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different.

~ Adora Svitak