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Quotes About Gloss

Society was self-interest given a pretty gloss.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
When it comes to make-up, I usually go au natural most of the time and opt for a basic blush, lip gloss and kohl for a day look.
~ Genelia D'Souza
Cognitive dissonance is the tendency "to suppress, gloss over, water down or 'waffle' issues which would produce conflict or 'psychological pain' within an organization.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
When you think of the later '50s and 'Far From Heaven' and Eisenhower and Sirk, you think of that Hollywood panache and gloss to American middle-class life.
~ Todd Haynes
My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
~ Rachel Bilson
Bass Weejuns are the Cordovan black or brown penny loafers originally called Norwegian Loafers, hence their name. Worn without socks in the spring and summer, they must be kept to a high-gloss polish and should become burnished with wax over time until they have a fine patina.
~ Roger Stone
My makeup routine is a small amount of base, a mascara, nude eye shadow, and a lip balm or a gloss. When I go out at night, I wear a blusher and tons and tons of mascara - very easy, very fresh, very light. I can't sit around doing my own makeup all day - I wish I could.
~ Pat McGrath
All my life I have been restless- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss- than wholeness- than staying at home.
~ Mary Oliver
She was a thin, sharp-boned woman who reminded Blanche of ribbon candy—all curves and gloss
~ Barbara Neely
To me, natural, healthy looking skin is really beautiful. With a little concealer, eyeshadow, liner, gloss and bronzer, I love my lighter makeup look. I've saved so much money on facials!
~ Giuliana Rancic
For lips, I'm into mauves, and I like a little shimmer. I have this Dior lip gloss I love right now called Pearl. It's pink and has shimmer. I don't like anything overdone.
~ Brittany Snow
While representing violence on screen, some directors tend to gloss over it while others glamorize it.
~ Victor Banerjee
Like most dancers, I love lip stains! We hate gloss because hair gets stuck in it.
~ Heather Morris
I like it to look natural, to be smooth, dewy glowy. I like my eyebrows to look nice and I love lip gloss. That's essential to the Saweetie look.
~ Saweetie
dripping-wet Gloss
~ Suzanne Collins
She could damage the glossy image - and did when she dug up the dirt. It's why the viewers clung to the screen - for the gloss and the dirt. She could be fearless in exposing icons. It's not surprising someone violently objected. Icons have fans, after all, and the word fan is short for fanatic .
~ J.D. Robb
I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.
~ Jessica Biel
With the kind of money Bollywood directors have, they can at least add drama, gloss and glamour to their films, even if the stories are uninspiring and run-of-the-mill.
~ Aparna Sen
Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.
~ Helen Cross
Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
~ Scott Thompson
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle that's broken presently; A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour. And as goods lost are seld or never found, As vaded gloss no rubbing will refresh, As flowers dead lie withered on the ground, As broken glass no cement can redress; So beauty blemished once, for ever lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost.
~ William Shakespeare
I love the nooks and crannies of the American landscape; the back roads and back alleys, the places that are still untouched by the corporate gloss, the veneer of sameness that seems to be spreading across the country.
~ David Means
Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.
~ John Gregory Dunne
It is here that the stilted mannequins of my initial acquaintance begin to yawn and stretch and come to life. It was months before the gloss and mystery of newness, which kept me from seeing them with much objectivity, would wear entirely off... it is here, in my memory, that they cease being totally foreign and begin to appear, for the first time, in shapes very like their bright old selves.
~ Donna Tartt