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Quotes About Make-up

Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women by their looks.Because the see bether than thay think.
~ Kathy Lette, Nip 'N' Tuck
My work begins at around 3 P.M. I wake up at around 2 P.M., watch my serial cassettes, jog for 30 minutes, get my make-up done, and plunge into meetings lined up with my directors. By evening, I finish all meetings and go to my office, where I handle any problems that may have arisen there.
~ Ekta Kapoor
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
~ Ovid, Metamorphoses
Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.
~ Jeff Bridges
I love dressing up. But I'm very low-maintenance; the week before an event, I'll choose something as quickly as possible and that's that. If I can do my own hair and make-up, even better. I like it to be fun.
~ Helen McCrory
I'm very pernickety about cast and make-up. Continuity things can go dreadfully wrong in film; the beards are different, red waistcoats become blue.
~ Nigel Hawthorne
'The Great Fire' is more what I'm used to - being in costume and make-up for a long time, trying to be 'period appropriate.'
~ Perdita Weeks
I've always wanted to do a period drama - I love the costumes and the make-up.
~ Phoebe Dynevor
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.
~ Noel Gallagher
To shoot a movie that takes place in three decades in 30 days is a lot on the hair and make-up team.
~ Sebastian Stan
When I get a new script, I write a record of how many costume and make-up changes I have. I cross-check them against the shooting schedule and then consult with the hair and make-up designers.
~ Gina Bellman
When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often taught to think of ourselves as inherently selfish, the longing to act meaningfully in our work seems just as stubborn a part of our make-up as our appetite for status or money.
~ Alain de Botton
Vera felt a twinge of sympathy. Perhaps the make-up and the sophisticated clothes were protection. Everyone had their own way of facing a hostile world.
~ Ann Cleeves
I have nothing against cosmetic procedures, but I don't want my face lasered. Also, people are naive about how much you can do with make-up and lighting, and I've learned from the best.
~ Marie Helvin
To me, the make-up of a modern defenseman, the No. 1 thing is the processing skills.
~ Barry Trotz
What we like to do is have family dinners at home so we don't have to have make-up on.
~ Kathy Hilton
I think familiarity breeds contempt. I mean, we'll never get another Greta Garbo will we? Someone would go in with a camera Sellotaped to the bottom of a tray trying to get film of her with no make-up on.
~ Alan Carr
When you are the kid of an actor, it's always a very inviting world. Everyone is nice to you, the hair and make-up people braid your hair and play with you, and the costume department makes outfits for your teddy bears.
~ Katherine Waterston
My personal memories of the brand go way back to the time when I was a teenager. L'Oreal make-up felt like a real luxury for me, and I remember dreaming of purchasing a L'Oreal lipstick.
~ Irina Shayk
I'd hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, 'It's all make-up and lighting.'
~ Sophie McShera
But I think our humour is exactly the same today. Only, we've made rules now. We've said we are not going to do prosthetic make-up scenes, because when they take it off half your face comes off.
~ Jennifer Saunders
I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
~ Faith Prince
I played Simone, the French tutor for the daughter of a rich Manhattan couple, who goes to a costume ball as Marie Antoinette. While everyone else in 'CSI' races around in police gear, I had to wear a ballgown and bustle and two wigs. It was very heavy on the make-up side.
~ Louise Linton