Quotes About Makeup

“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

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

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

“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

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

“‎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

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

“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

“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

“Earlier, watching her apply mascara with ritual concentration, he'd wondered just how beautiful a woman had to be before she believed it.”
― Alison Fell, The Element -inth in Greek

“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

“Very sweetly, he always told her he loved her just the way she was. Although, honestly he had no idea. She shuddered to think what she would really look like if she stopped waxing, plucking, highlighting, manicuring, applying make-up and
dressing with care and concentration.”
― Carmen Reid, How Not To Shop

“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

“That really pissed me off, because I am worth it, goddamn it!”
“I know you—”
“Still talking here!”
― Robin L. Rotham, Alien Overnight

“Now I'm all messed up sick inside wondering who's life your making worth while.”
― Sara Quin

“Thanks, but no thanks. I need my makeup honey. - Carol”
― Matthew Leeth

“Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.”
― Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom and Prejudice

“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

“In 1770, a British law was proposed to Parliament granting grounds for annulment if a bride used cosmetics prior to her wedding day.
—Marjorie Dorfman, “The History of Make-up”
― Julie Klassen, The Maid of Fairbourne Hall

“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, The Blind Assassin

“Now I'm all messed up, sick inside wondering where you're leaving your makeup.”
― Sara Quin