Black women, dark skin women are the original beautiful people to me.
The conventional idea of beauty is so boring.
I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in my early 20s, so I never realized that makeup 'wasn't for boys,' as many social norms say.
So much of the mainstream media has taught us what beauty is, but everyone is beautiful.
Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.
Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?
Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size.
Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.
'America's Next Top Model' is not a bunch of Barbies - it's a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.
I think that women out there should just be happy with how they look, and they shouldn't really try to conform to any stereotype. Just be happy and, hopefully, healthy.
The face of beauty literally needs to change, which means the way we think of beauty needs to as well.
My husband didn't want me to wear any black hairstyles. Nicole Kidman was his standard of beauty.
I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.
When I'm wearing makeup, I choose between doing my eyes or mouth because I don't want to look like a beauty pageant child.
I think that it should be every woman's choice, depending on how she feels comfortable. I can't think of any objective reason why you should wear makeup unless it makes you feel good.
While I believe that when you are in the glamour industry, you have to look your best, I also believe being skinny is not 'hot and happening.'
Drag should push the limits of what is considered fashionable or beautiful.
Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.
I think women should wear whatever makeup they want for themselves. Makeup should be fun.
Lena made a face. She almost never wore makeup; she didn't have to. "You know, it's not like we all sign a contract with Maybelline when we turn thirteen.
In Romania it was normal that when you got a facial someone would tweeze your brows.
Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.
One of the big things I've learned over the years and I'm excited that Glossier perpetuates is that wherever you're at, in terms of your scope of knowledge around beauty, is totally okay. And not just okay, but actually really valuable.
I'm not the girl for superhigh fashion because I don't have the right body.
I've been told to wear different things, to look different, to lose weight, to look sexier, to wear more hair, to wear more makeup.
