Words matter. These are the best Kevyn Aucoin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I spent much of my life hiding.
I didn’t know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn’t think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.
I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still.
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.
I’m not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
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.
I also have this incredible love for women.
I’d rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
While traveling around the world, I’ve had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I’ve learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as ‘normal’ – everybody’s different, and that is the essence of their beauty.
Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.
I don’t use ‘always do this,’ ‘never say that’ and I never give advice because I’m not the end-all, be-all authority.
When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn’t have mistakes, it’s nothing.
I’m very passionate about what I do.
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.
Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.
Yes, but everyone is beautiful to someone.
Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!
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.
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
It’s our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won’t make your soul pretty.
