Black Makeup Quotes

#1. Jett's artistic talent was as weighty and emphatic as the heavy black makeup she applied to her lips and eyelids.

Judith Fertig

#2. Her eyes
lined with black makeup
stared blankly at the ceiling; and her tan was obviously sprayed on since her skin had a healthy apricot glow even though the top of her head was missing.

Donna Tartt

#3. Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.

Jamie Farr

#4. I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black.

Olivia Wilde

#5. Most makeup campaigns are not in black and white.

Carine Roitfeld

#6. I'm not a big eye makeup girl unless there's a professional doing it - otherwise I look like I have two black eyes!

Holland Roden

#7. Her eyes are shockingly black - shocking not because black eyes are particularly rare, but because she's wearing smoky gray eyeshadow and dark eyeliner to accentuate them further. Makeup, while the world is ending.

N.K. Jemisin

#8. I love black thighs, you sisters better realize
That real hair and real eyes get real guys.
So before you makeup your face, you better make up your mind ...

Common

#9. The older women, the married ones and the widows, wear black clothes and no makeup, as I used to do. When I was in the later months of pregnancy, they would smile at me, as if I was almost one of them. Now they smile at Sarah first.

Margaret Atwood

#10. You almost gave me a black eye. That would've been fun to explain to makeup. It's probably safer if we make out in here.

Katie Delahanty

#11. Look at me
a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

RuPaul

#12. It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

Shirley Manson

#13. When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.

Abbey Clancy

#14. I know this looks pathetic, but I'm wearing black elastic-waist pants just like my mother's, a hot-pink fleece hat, mismatched socks, and no makeup. I think it's safe to say that vanity is no longer my biggest concern.

Lisa Genova

#15. Since we started putting together our makeup collection, Kardashian Beauty, I've been extra invested in our list of no-no ingredients. It's an ingredients black list that we don't allow into the products - no parabens, no sulfates.

Kourtney Kardashian

#16. I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

Denzel Washington

#17. I wore white kabuki makeup, had blue-black hair. At one point, I shaved an inch and a half around my hairline and continued the white makeup up so it made my head look slightly deformed. I thought it was hilarious.

Melissa McCarthy

#18. She'd neglected makeup entirely, and those damn black eyes lent her the appearance of a raccoon. A raccoon that had gotten hit in the face. After a lifetime of poor nutrition. The silence was broken only by the humming of the lift, and it felt conspicuous.

Daniel O'Malley

#19. When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boots. I want my hair styled like his models, long hair that flows. I also want natural makeup with a light pink lip.

Nadine Velazquez

#20. There were angry clouds building up behind the moutains, black-gray clouds, great clumps of them colored just like cotton balls after Aunt Ruth cleaned off her eye makeup from a big night out, all gunky with mascara and eye shadow. (p 378)

Emily M. Danforth

#21. I'd gone heavy on the black eye makeup until raccoons and I could pass for cousins.

Jeaniene Frost

#22. I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.

Zendaya