Quotes About Beauty

Like my makeup, I keep my hair simple. It's either down or in a ponytail.

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.

I can't live without knowing I have my extensions and ponytail. So I can run out the door at the drop of a hat.

I usually do my hair and makeup in 30 to 45 minutes, and if my hair is dirty, I'll just put it in a bun or a ponytail. If it's in a bun, I'll part it down the middle and do a low bun with a couple pieces in the front coming down.

They're not poodles, they're art.

My family was very, very poor. We grew up in an environment that was so nurturing and so caring. Everything around us was beautiful.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

I come from one of the poorest countries in the world, and Cameroon is also one of the most beautiful countries in the world.

Nothing ages as poorly as a beautiful woman's ego.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

That's one thing brands are understanding is, I'm the blogger who's not writing about fashion. I'm not writing about beauty. I'm not writing about gossip. I'm not writing about politics. I'm writing about all of that. I'm the person they can come to if they just want to reach people who care and have their fingers on pop culture.

Pop culture says that if a black girl is to be taken seriously, she has to assimilate and be as white as possible, to the point of bleaching her hair blonde.

I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.

I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.

I would have loved to have been an aesthetician. I love, like, anything to do with - I know this sounds kind of gross - but any kind of zit popping is so fascinating to me.

I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called 'Friday's Fingertip Fetish.' It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.

We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music.

Sometimes music can really seem like a popularity contest with beautiful people.

I come from Israel, where most of the population is dark-haired, dark-skinned, dark-eyed.

Ultimately, my goal is to inspire little brown girls that look like me, that are sitting on the porch wearing cornrows.

I want Portland to be the cleanest city in America.

I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings out the contrast.

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.