Top 75 Anastasia Soare Quotes

Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

I have a Pasquini, the old-fashioned Italian coffee machine. I have to make my coffee because I know exactly how much I want and how strong I like it.

When you’re trying to recreate an era, eyebrows and hair are the most important thing to consider.

A thicker brow looks more feminine.

The fact that I didn’t speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.

I like to do my eyebrows last – but of course, it’s down to personal preference. For me, I do them last because then I can balance out my entire make-up look with my brows at the end.

I do my hair and makeup every day like I’m going to a party.

Eyebrows are the framework for the entire face.

To be honest, I don’t think I ever had thought I had to be successful. I just saw a need and I liked to be challenged, that’s my personality.

I was fresh off the boat from Romania, and one of my clients was the agent to all of the ’90s supermodels: Gail Elliott, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford. I had no idea who these girls were! They were so gorgeous, absolutely the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life.

I don’t like to judge. Fashion is a form of expression, so to each their own.

If you ask me, I think knowledge is power and and being able to do your own makeup, or someone else’s makeup, is power in itself.

I’ve known Oprah since 1998 or 1999. It is incredible how amazing she is. When you are around her, you see how considerate, giving and wonderful she is with the people around her.

It’s fun to experiment like Rihanna, but if you start tweezing brow hairs excessively, I can guarantee they won’t grow back.

The human eye uses the eyebrow as an anchor point for the rest of the face. This is why a woman can look truly stunning without any makeup but perfectly shaped, full eyebrows.

The proper eyebrows can balance wide cheekbones or make the length of the face appear more proportionate.

While designing, sewing and cutting patterns for clients, my mother was always telling me to make sure the upper part of the body was balanced with the lower part, an A-line skirt to minimize hips or shoulder pads if a client was smaller on top. I was training my eye to create balance.

In my early 20s, living in a communist regime in Romania, success to me simply meant leaving and coming to America.

We don’t want to do what everyone else does. We want to create trends. We like to think outside of the box.

For fragrance, I only wear Portrait of a Lady by Frederic Malle. People at work know I’m there when they smell it.

If you’re lacking hair in your brows, applying powder over a waxy pencil will make the color stick.

Studying technical design and art gave me the ability to see things in 3-D.

It doesn’t matter how late I come home – it could be two o’clock, three o’clock in the morning – I have to take off my makeup.

I grew up in Romania studying art and architecture.

Marilyn Monroe had thick, dark eyebrows even though her hair was platinum and it looked gorgeous. It worked because she had brown eyes – dark eyes can handle a dark brow even if the hair is blond.

I did not play with dolls. I played with a little hammer, paint and wood.

You can’t survive if you don’t make money. But as far as I’m concerned, we never, ever make a product with the idea that we’d make a lot of money. We make products because we’re inspired by the idea that people will love it.

In grade school, my mother, who was a professional tailor, would make all my clothes. I became obsessed with designing them myself.

Being asked by Oprah Winfrey to be on her show and do her eyebrows in 2006 – to me, that was like getting an Oscar. It was a stamp of approval from a woman that is incredible. It propelled my career to a different level.

In Romania it was normal that when you got a facial someone would tweeze your brows.

Models used to shave their eyebrows so they could pencil them in very thin.

I like to brush my brows up and curve them toward the end.

Eyebrows are everything!

If you have belief in what you do, you have a great technique, good quality product and a good service, you can expand even when there is economic turmoil.

Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.

I know how to sew, knit, I’m a great chef, and a good dancer.

If your eyes are far apart, bringing the brow shape closer together gives the illusion of shorter distance between the eyes.

I’m surrounded by a lot of women and they really inspire me every day.

People in the beauty community don’t like copycats, so I think it’s important to stay true to who you are and people will stay your customer.

Petite features should always be paired with thinner, softer brows – they don’t overpower your face.

Good eyebrows give your face definition.

I’m not saying I’m the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

We all have different brow bones, and different amounts of space between the eyebrow and the lashes; the space on the upper lid is bigger or smaller, the space on the bridge of the nose or between the eyes is wider or narrower. Everyone is different.

If you hair is dense, you’re lucky! All you need is a pair of Precision Tweezers to remove stray hair and a trace of Brow Wiz pencil to perfect and clean up edges.

Brows more or less can sculpt the face and minimize features you find less flattering.

Trimming is tricky. If you trim the eyebrow too much, you ruin the arch. Eyebrow hair has a curl and when you brush and cut it, it’s easy to snip it too short.

I love RuPaul.

I saw so many opportunities in the U.S. because I knew that I could make a living doing things I could never do in Romania.

When I meet a woman, I know how her brow will look.

If you have a bold brow, it’s best to forgo a super-smoky eye and make the lips dramatic instead.

My goal is always to bring a sense of balance, symmetry, and proportion to each individual face. The brows are an essential starting point.

I realized that nobody paid attention to eyebrows. In Romania, it was the norm. I thought, ‘This is Hollywood. We work with the most incredible, beautiful models and actors and this is important.’

I don’t like to see mess.

I don’t ever take lunch. If I were to go to lunch I would waste four hours.

In 1997, I decided to open a salon in Beverly Hills. At that time there were no products for eyebrows, so I developed a line.

A man should not get his eyebrows shaped, he should get them groomed.

Draw attention to the brow bone by accentuating the area between the eye and the brow with a highlighter.

Hair on the eyebrow droops because of aging, so a groomed eyebrow on a man opens the eye and makes him looks younger.

The only thing that will change with fashion is the brows’ thickness or thinness. Every season the arch will be the same.

I’m not a fan of brows that look blocky and square-like at the front.

Use Anastasia Beverly Hills Perfect Brow Pencil to outline the brows and give them more definition. To soften edges, comb color through with the spooley end.

When I went to art school in Romania, we learned the Golden Ratio Technique Theory, which taught us that when you draw a portrait and want to show an emotion, you change the eyebrows. They are the most important feature on the face.

People didn’t believe that eyebrows were a business. I believed in it, and I think that’s enough. If you believe it, you can do it.

Avoid needlepoint tweezers as you can easily injure yourself. And very square tweezers can shear the hair versus plucking it out from the root, causing the appearance of an ingrown.

In America people get depressed for no reason. They say, ‘I’m sad my boyfriend didn’t call me.’ I tell them, ‘How would you like to spend 12 hours on a line to get bread or a chicken?’ That is depressing.

In Romania, during the communist regime, we were very culturally suppressed. At 18 years old, I wasn’t allowed to wear bell-bottom jeans and eyeliner. I couldn’t understand why!

Full brows frame and accentuate your eyes, so you can get away with wearing less liner and mascara.

Me and my daughter, we are obsessed with makeup and so are our followers, and we communicate, we want to know what they like, what they want, what is their perfect, ideal product that’s missing on the market? So everything we create, we share and we give credit to our followers.

The first thing I do before I get out of bed is reach for my phone and open Instagram.

I don’t think thin brows will make a comeback; women have finally seen how much more beautiful their look can be with a properly shaped eyebrow.

Women think that smaller brows will open up their eyes, but that’s wrong and it affects your entire face.