Top 66 Emily Weiss Quotes

Over the years of running Into The Gloss, I began to see a gap in the way beauty companies were creating products and marketing them to women. There wasn’t one brand that really spoke to girls like me, who created products for real life. So we set out to create that brand with Glossier.

You can make a million excuses for why something didn’t go well, but ultimately, just fix it and get on with it. Be a solutions person.

I’ve never been one for color theory or color wheels or undertone rules or anything like that. I don’t know if my red lipstick ‘should’ be more blue or more orange.

My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it’d be ‘nice’ to relax for an hour, but I just want a 10-minute, high-impact workout; get in, get out. Showers are my cardio.

Instagram has a faster chance of reaching me than CNN, and if I really want to know what’s going on, I refresh my Twitter feed.

I eat out alone a lot.

It’s very important to me to have a female venture capitalist.

If you’re interested in a ‘Teen Vogue’ internship, take note: it’s not all fun and games! Working at a magazine requires a ton of energy and endurance from its interns and editors alike.

I don’t even need to know – if you have something to prove to your old boss or your dad or your third grade teacher or yourself, it doesn’t matter. You need that hustle and that fire, and I don’t care where it comes from.

You learn a lot about people when you’re sitting on their bathroom floor or on their toilet seat, rifling through their stuff.

I read every single comment that comes in.

If you look dull, the easiest thing to do is wash your face with water, and immediately you look refreshed.

Glossier is not about throwing out everything you’re using. If you want to keep using your retinols, your SPFs, of course you should continue.

The creation of ‘Into The Gloss’ took less than a month. Glossier took twelve months and about a million dollars to hire the team, work with the chemists, order the inventory, get an office – you know, the whole thing.

So much of venture capital is pattern recognition.

In my humble opinion, having tons of products and furniture and magazines and clothes is not luxurious – living minimally is.

I grew up in a conservative New England town and showed up to my middle school orientation dressed like ‘Clueless’ while everyone else was wearing J. Crew and lacrosse uniforms. I never really fit into that preppy look.

Your skin is like a plant. You have to water it. Make sure it’s hydrated, not just squeaky clean.

With ‘Into The Gloss’ and now Glossier, the reason it was successful was because there were so many like-minded women out there who were also dissatisfied with their beauty experiences.

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.

The ideal intern is committed, creative, organized, ambitious, independent, and able to crack a smile, whether meeting a celebrity or folding socks.

My desk is more of a place where I set my stuff, and then I move around. If I’m at the office, I’m usually wandering around to different meeting rooms all day or taking people out or making tea. I’m rarely at my desk; it’s just a place to hang my hat.

I would rather be ‘oily’ than ‘dry’ on pretty much any part of my body.

Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated – it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.

We want to demystify and present things in real talk. That’s why Into the Gloss struck a nerve. Glossier is not much different. We’re providing this rich environment around products that help consumers understand their benefit.

Unlike a celebrity, there’s nothing I won’t try and nothing I won’t talk about when it comes to my hair. If I were to get a tattoo on my inner upper arm, it would read, ‘Change thy hair, change thyself.’

Throughout your teens and twenties, it’s pretty easy to live in a suspended reality – one where you never get old or need to spend much time thinking about 401Ks, mammograms, or renewing your license. You don’t need me to tell you: that ends.

My musical inclinations are fine and dandy within the confines of my ears and my earphones but don’t sit well with others.

I approached fundraising as an opportunity to align myself with partners who have more varied experience and diverse backgrounds than I do to help bring Glossier to life.

I must admit that self-tanner is one beauty arena I’ve been hesitant to explore, let alone fully embrace.

People talk about body cleanses like there’s no tomorrow – what about apartment cleanses?

This is hard to admit, but historically, I haven’t worn sunscreen. I know – not good.

I like to get rid of things; I don’t collect many things. But I do keep great photography and art books.

Where Halloween is concerned, I peaked in 2007.

I always thought ‘Into The Gloss’ would be successful, but I didn’t really know what my definition of success was.

If I want to know how to do a black cat eye, I don’t drive to a department store. I’ll go on YouTube, cross-check reviews of a product, and then maybe talk about it on Instagram.

Elin Kling is one of the most stylish women I know.

When your lips get dry, is there anything more frantic?

I’m on Instagram more than any other social platform.

I am crazy for good branding and really admire companies that get it right.

For some, Into The Gloss is just a blog, and that’s cool. For us, it’s the connective tissue between us and you, and that has paved the way for the creation of a very different kind of beauty brand: Glossier.

Products are a way to connect with – or disconnect from – who you are.

I think reality television has made the fashion industry and the beauty industry, any industry – frankly, just life – it has made life seem much different than it really is.

I just have to stop biting my nails. I’ve been on and off that bandwagon so many times. I feel like it’s going to be a lifelong struggle.

The single guiding principle that I try to follow, assuming blindly that the rest will fall into place, is to operate squarely in the present. I think it’s one of the most difficult things for anyone to do.

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.

My wardrobe falls into two camps most of the time: either very monochromatic and tailored or really vintagey, with ’30s and ’40s-style long floral dresses. I don’t buy that much, so every time I invest in something new, it has to elevate what I have hanging in my closet.

In our product development cycle, we ask and listen to our customer about what she wants.

That power of the individual person – just the girl – is infinite.

My December is typically one big, sweaty ‘wintry mix’ blur, not a punch-laden, heartwarming mixer.

I love someone with something to prove.

Augmenting your appearance so drastically that it elicits a reaction from literally every acquaintance you greet is a sea change.

Into The Gloss is buoyed by the people on it, the people who read it and discuss it, and the people who work on it.

The guardians of French pharmacies – the lab-coated salespeople – are busy, serious, and probably know more about your face than you do. Therefore, don’t interrupt them, and if they ask you if they can help you, for God’s sake, let them. They will not steer you wrong.

When you own a pair of haircutting scissors, you cut your own hair constantly.

We could be like a lot of consumer brands that start blogs after they start their business. But in our case, I think Glossier is still very much a content company. I think about our products themselves as pieces of content.

I like a semi-stressful massage – one where I can really feel something being worked out.

There’s so much pressure on women to have it all together. There’s always this ‘next, next, next.’ I hope Glossier encourages women to be O.K. wherever you are. Just, everyone, relax!

Nobody said being platinum was easy.

Beauty is very intimate.

When I think of baths, I generally think of children, the elderly, couples, and the English. Who takes baths? I mean, seriously – none of my friends take baths.

At ‘Vogue,’ I was responsible for a lot of production work, and production work is highly detailed, and you have to be very resourceful to fit a square peg into a round hole. I learned to push the envelope when it comes to asking questions or making requests.

‘Into The Gloss,’ what I think it did so well was create a conversation around beauty and make beauty the main event as opposed to the ugly step-sister, which it often is in magazines.

Glossier – our content, our products – it’s for all for you; it’s ours.

Everyone says to hydrate on the plane, but I don’t.

I just grew up loving beauty products. Going to the mall, and the Stila counter in the ’90s. I was obsessed with hair dye.