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Quotes About Makeup

I like to let my skin breath as much as possible on my days off, when I don't have to wear full or heavy make-up. So I just apply it as a moisturiser, knowing that it's going to even out my skin tone and give me SPF 15 coverage, too.
~ Holly Willoughby
I always take my makeup off before bed, even after a night out. Cleanse, tone and moisturise. I also like my skin to be able to breathe, so I don't wear thick, heavy makeup on my face.
~ Michelle Keegan
I'm not really into cool tones personally.
~ Manny MUA
It's wonderful that newer brands such as Fenty are making clear statements about being for all skin tones.
~ Zawe Ashton
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
There's always going to be somebody that you consider maybe more beautiful. But nine times out of ten here in L.A., that beauty isn't home grown. It's usually manufactured. It sort of encourages me to work more within myself because I think that's not what appeals to me. Plastic and tons of makeup.
~ Amanda Schull
I was trying to maintain a facade of infallibility, which is exhausting. Like, I used to wear tons of makeup because I had bad skin. I couldn't go out in public without makeup on.
~ Mike Posner
One of my beauty secrets is - whenever you can - try to wear no makeup at all! Putting tons of makeup on is not good for your skin.
~ Skai Jackson
I get a bit insecure if I feel like there's too much makeup on my face or if I feel like I'm cakey.
~ Dua Lipa
When I do makeup, it's performative. I don't really wear makeup, but I use it as a tool to talk about gender and sexuality.
~ King Princess
We're not telling you that you need a concealer. We're providing a concealer in case you want it. We're trying to give you the tools to be able to make whatever decision you want.
~ Emily Weiss
The most common mistakes women make when applying makeup are not applying it in the proper light and not using their hands as blending tools.
~ Bobbi Brown
Mascara is my daily essential. I pile it on top and bottom lashes during the day. If I'm going out, I'll add the individual Eylure lashes at the outer corners for more drama.
~ Ashley Madekwe
My nighttime look is exactly like my daytime look - like I'm going to a super fancy funeral. I guess it would be considered extreme to most people, but I like it that way. The idea of conventional beauty isn't attractive to me... that's why, when I was growing up, I felt kind of torn about makeup.
~ Kat Von D
Toronto girls are super interested in skincare, which is actually kind of unique. Because in New York, the girls seem to be mostly interested in makeup.
~ Emily Weiss
My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.
~ Robert Carlyle
At night if I'm in a hurry, I'll just put on a lot of mascara and black pencil all the way around the inner rim. It's a totally sexy eye in a minute and a half.
~ Brooke Burns
She couldn't act like a mother if she tried!" said Martha. "This is even better than I thought it would be!" said Ruby, laughing so hard she fell to the floor and rolled around in fits. Soon Martha joined her, and the two were laughing so hard they were crying, causing their makeup to drip down their hysterical faces.
~ Serena Valentino
there was something wistful about her, under the burnish of her makeup she looked extremely young, and a little afraid. I wanted to speak to her, as if I were a guardian spirit working the airport—God knows I was crazed with my fresh solitariness— so I did a little double take, when I passed her, and said, Could I ask, where did you get your sandals—my husband, I lied, wants me to get some, and she said a name, as if relieved to speak.
~ Sharon Olds
Maybe one reason I do not wear makeup is to scare people. If they're close enough, they can see something is different with me, something unnerving, as if I have no features, I am embryonic, pre-eyebrows, pre-eyelids, pre-mouth, I am like a water bear talking to them, or an amniotic traveler, a vitreous floater on their own eyeball, human ectoplasm risen on its hind legs to discourse with them.
~ Sharon Olds
sitting on crates and passing a bottle. A cameraman from Channel 7 is shooting footage, and a reporter looks uncomfortable as she adjusts her makeup and studies her notes
~ Sheldon Siegel
For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.
~ Fred Allen
I don't have time every day to put on make up. I need that time to clean my rifle.
~ Henriette Mantel