Kevyn Aucoin Quotes

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin

Morning, Life, Happiness

Beauty has a lot to do with character.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty, Character

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Kevyn Aucoin

Life, Heart, Short

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

Beauty, Fun, Yourself

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty, Through, Find

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
Kevyn Aucoin

Mistakes, Nothing, Boring

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.
Kevyn Aucoin

Passion, Two, Whatever

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty, Today, Single

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty, Soon, Realized

I spent much of my life hiding.
Kevyn Aucoin

Life, Hiding, Spent

I'm very passionate about what I do.
Kevyn Aucoin

Yes, but everyone is beautiful to someone.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beautiful, Someone, Everyone

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
Kevyn Aucoin

Respect, Amazing, Bad

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
Kevyn Aucoin

Success, Travel, Rather

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
Kevyn Aucoin

Mom, Growing, Ideals

I also have this incredible love for women.
Kevyn Aucoin

Love, Women, Incredible

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
Kevyn Aucoin

Fashion, Lies, Demand

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.
Kevyn Aucoin

Here, Whole, Insult

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
Kevyn Aucoin

Industry, Modeling, Dull

When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
Kevyn Aucoin

Life, Women, Men

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: February 14, 1962

Died: May 7, 2002

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