Makeup can make a woman look more beautiful at every age.
Some people think wearing powder ages them, but try it anyway. For me it mattes my makeup and blends it well.
In real life, I’m always in tracksuits, and I never wear makeup.
My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They’re Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.
In the summer months, I like as little makeup as possible – I don’t want to be too painted. I might put a little cover-up to smooth everything out.
For a clean makeup finish, I use Cle de Peau translucent pressed powder.
I always felt more comfortable with a full face of makeup.
I used to watch my mom put her makeup on for the stage, and it was one of the most special moments. I would sit quietly on the dressing room floor and watch her put her face on. I think she looks most beautiful in the morning when she wakes up with no makeup on… it’s my favorite look on women.
Although I tend to favor a natural look, I also like to have fun with makeup.
As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see your friend wearing a great color, don’t assume it will be right for you.
I’d love to go back to Broadway; I’d love to do animation; I’d love to do hair and make-up campaigns because I love hair and makeup – and, I’d love to do film. I mean, there are a lot of doors I’d love to open up!
As long as I have enough money for makeup artists, everything is okay. I feel young and very free. But one day, my face will be too old for the camera.
From my childhood, my mom always told me to stay pretty clean and not put anything on my skin. That definitely helped me because I never wear too much makeup.
If I wasn’t doing music, I would be a makeup artist.
We’ve shown everyone we are musicians first and foremost: we’ll produce our own albums and play The 100 Club. We earned people’s respect. We’re not the band on MTV, wearing a bunch of makeup. We’ve proved we’re the real deal.
My makeup is quite dense, so I have to remove makeup very thoroughly.
If you’re not a makeup artist, and you just try to go for the big looks, it just gets the best of you.
But quite honestly, personally, I was much more concerned – I mean, there’s not much I can do about my appearance obviously other than spending four hours in hair and makeup.
I think barefaced, minimal makeup happens mostly on editorial shoots. And I’ve taken a swing at minimal makeup here and there, but I think a lot of what drag celebrates is the opposite of that. I think the inauthenticity and the hyperfemininity is part of why it’s so celebrated.
For the record: I wear makeup. All. The. Time. But I do it in a way that looks natural.
You’re dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
I don’t wear makeup on the court, but I always wear sunblock. I love getting done up and wearing makeup away from the court though!
A woman who hides behind a mask of makeup is still going to have to take it off at some point… and deal with reality.
Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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.
I want makeup to be more about freedom of expression. If I want to put on makeup and make myself look different, I can, but it’s not a standard for every single day.
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.
It’s a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies on set, the women working on set is a huge percentage. There used to be no women. It was just the leading lady’s mother, perhaps the hairdresser and the makeup person.
I never really wore makeup in high school; I wasn’t really into it yet, which is probably good.
In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.
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!
The first time I met Beyonce she was about 18 years old, sitting in a makeup chair eating fried chicken, and I knew it was only a matter of time before everyone would know her name.
If you’re wearing smoky eye makeup, a little beige or gold pencil on the inner eye corners will open up the area, but you only want to do it if the shadow is really dark. Otherwise, light pencil makes your eyes look too far apart, like a fish.
I had a blog and was documenting my life as a college student in an art school. I had a few comments left by a few girls asking if I could do a tutorial on how I did my makeup. I didn’t think my makeup was all that special, but I try my best to share whatever I can with my viewers.
I don’t have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothes and putting nail polish on.
I love Neutrogena’s Makeup Remover Cleansing Wipes. They get all my makeup off and are really moisturizing.
I was one of the artistic directors of the Steppenwolf Theatre, which me and many dear buddies started all the way back in 1974, and I have a lot of that in my makeup.
I find most men don’t like a lot of makeup.
I always do the same makeup because it’s what works with my face. Just eyeliner and lots of mascara – very ’60s.
If I do want to wear a little bit of makeup, I really like a pink lip. There’s one called Lip Mist in Pink Heather from Burberry that I love.
Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.
I like fats. I think fat is important. I think there is a reason we have it. Obviously it’s part of our dietary makeup, so I don’t avoid it.
You should see me without makeup.
It took me 15 years of being in the industry to know that you need makeup and styling when you go out, that you need to have PR.
On days I’m not working, I don’t wear a ton of other makeup, but if I have to look like I care, I’ll use this By Terry Ombre Blackstar eye shadow stick in Frozen Quartz and Eyeko mascara.
Prosthetic makeup is always frustrating.
‘G.I. Joe’ is a $200 million movie. The makeup trailer was as big as my house! It was a whole other different production. It blows me away. I’m just going, ‘Wow, I’m in that.’
My favorite thing to pass the time in the makeup chair is YouTube videos of talking cats. I don’t know why, but they make me laugh.
I’ve learned more from makeup artists in my nine years of modeling than from my mother. She always told me not to wear any makeup. I try to keep my skin and hair clean and give them a rest when I’m not working.
I’ve always loved makeup. I’m very, very girly. I used to sit and watch my mum get ready. My mum is very glamorous, and I remember sitting on her bed and watching her apply her makeup, get dressed, and do her hair.
I use moisturizer on my face both day and night, and I don’t sleep with makeup on.
I don’t dye my hair and I can go without makeup.
I really like Tracie Martyn beauty products for skin care. Take off your makeup before you go to sleep. Sometimes I forget, and it is always horrible when you wake up.
I don’t love getting up at the crack of dawn and having makeup put on my face for three hours – like, I really don’t like it – and then having a part that’s just not that challenging.
I don’t wear a lot of makeup ever, even when I do interviews or when I’m on TV. I just keep it me, and I think it’s important to show people I’m a regular person and regular people are beautiful, too.
I know, I know – men have that extra hero gene in their foolish makeup; it’s part of our charm. But I happen to know some women who have their inner sports hero, too.
I’m still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a ‘no-makeup’ fresh type of look – sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
It was once people began taking my picture every time I left the house – because it’s an easy fashion shot – that I started getting a bit weirder about going out without any makeup on, and I think that’s when I started wearing foundation every day.
I never wear makeup when I’m not at work. It can make you forget what you look like, and I’ve grown to really love the way I look without it.
I am totally in favour of reform – but it must be reform that changes the nature of British politics, not simply the makeup or operation of parliament.
Generally, when I’m going to a new project, I take my own makeup. I’ll explain to them what it is that I would like. If they are receptive, we figure it out together. If they’re not, I’ll be going to back to my trailer and doing my own makeup. And that’s the same for hair.
