Top 88 Quotes About Cosmetics
#1. But the adornments and cosmetics could not hide her character: the haughty nose, heavy eyebrows, intense lips. I thought: A tender young fighting bull.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#2. I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients.
Gloria Swanson
#3. People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
#4. While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.
Martial
#5. Sephora is a mecca for cosmetics, and it supports what I enjoy: You go into the store, and touch it, and try it, and love it. I've never bought anything on the Internet. I like experience.
Marc Jacobs
#6. Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.
Marcel Proust
#7. I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done.
Delphine Arnault
#8. I sometimes think that the prevalent use of external cosmetics eats out the internal brain if persisted in long enough.
Elisabeth Marbury
#9. The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.
Jayma Mays
#10. I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
Sandra Brown
#11. There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps
#12. I think a cosmetics company should be headed by a woman.
Leonard Lauder
#13. The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.
Marianne Thieme
#14. Anyone own a disease? I was also startled at the level of hypocrisy. How can a leading make up company not sign onto the "Campaign for Safe Cosmetics" and at the same time promote itself as leading the fight against breast cancer?
Ravida Din
#15. In 1770, a British law was proposed to Parliament granting grounds for annulment if a bride used cosmetics prior to her wedding day.
- Marjorie Dorfman, The History of Make-up
Julie Klassen
#16. History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it preferred to be shocking.
Sean DeLauder
#17. There is a sound reason why one and a half billion dollars are spent for cosmetics in your country every year, and only half that sum for education: There are no naturally pretty girls in the United States.
Elizabeth Hawes
#18. The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#19. The creation of my cosmetics experience has been years in the making.
Tyra Banks
#20. You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.
Dolly Parton
#21. True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return ...
Deborah Barnes
#22. I started the cosmetics in 1994 after I stopped modeling, out of my frustration as a woman of color not finding what I needed.
Iman
#23. I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfections. If you could get outside yourself, borrow my eyes for just an instant ... There is only beauty.
Tessa Dare
#24. I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
Yvette Nicole Brown
#25. I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.
Iman
#26. By wearing cosmetics a woman seeks to look younger or more beautiful than she otherwise would. Honesty doesn't require that she issue a continuous disclaimer: I see you are looking at my face. Please be aware that I don't look this good first thing in the morning.
Sam Harris
#27. Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
Coco Chanel
#28. I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.
Chris Toumazou
#31. As a little girl I always dreamed of having a cosmetics contract, which was the cherry on top of 'making it' in my opinion.
Paula Patton
#32. I had to wonder how Ginny could hold her head up under the weight of cosmetics smeared all over her face. Underneath it all, she may have been quite pretty. Or she may have been Dirk Bogarde. I will never know.
Hugh Laurie
#33. Everything that I have is natural - braid, nails - I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
Yulia Tymoshenko
#34. A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.
Brian Greene
#35. Mr. Gweta and his daughter were the cosmetics camouflaging an infected blackhead. The rest of the ugliness ran deep into a world where plants ate people and botanists lay at the bottom of the food chain.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#36. One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosmetics line that I love. I did this with the hope that they would love it as much as I do and end up switching their makeup over to that cruelty-free line forever.
Jenna Morasca
#37. I'm a five-hundred-year-old born vampire with an ever-expanding wardrobe, a serious cosmetics addiction, and enough outstanding Visa charges to fund a small third-world country.
Kimberly Raye
#38. Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
Warren Farrell
#39. The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.
Joan Collins
#40. I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
Dolly Parton
#41. Cosmetics makers have always sold 'hope in a jar' - creams and potions that promise youth, beauty, sex appeal, and even love for the women who use them.
Virginia Postrel
#42. At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
Iman
#43. She was plump, with dyed red hair and a face so caked with cosmetics that the floor of the Amazon jungle probably saw more natural light ...
John Connolly
#44. God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness.
Brennan Manning
#45. If you want to create a different character, you can do so just by altering your style of dress and cosmetics.
Frederick Lenz
#46. Animal testing is needless, especially in cosmetics.
Leona Lewis
#47. Annual U.S. spending on cosmetics: $8 billion Basic education for all global children: $6 billion Annual U.S. and European spending on perfume: $12 billion Clean water for all global citizens $9 billion
Jen Hatmaker
#48. The cosmetics that had seemed superfluous were necessary now, not to improve her but to define her somehow.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#49. Welcome to my world! I've been through it all, and I often pinch myself to believe my luck. I design jewlery, create cosmetics, perform comedy, act, lecture, write books, travel, have a fabulous daughter, and a phenomenal grandson-and I feel I'm the luckiest woman on the planet.
Joan Rivers
#50. Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
Yoko Ono
#51. My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
Paloma Faith
#53. Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
Karl Kraus
#54. I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.
Mary Kay Ash
#55. I balance my hormones with bioidentical hormones, I eat organic, I take supplements as determined by lab work, I sleep eight hours nightly, I use organic cosmetics and green household cleaners, and I avoid toxins as best I can.
Suzanne Somers
#56. I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.
Martha Gellhorn
#57. Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
George Jean Nathan
#59. The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.
Montgomery Clift
#60. In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.
Charles Revson
#61. That transparency is important. Look at what's inside products and seek out those that contain natural, plant-based ingredients - from toothpaste to cosmetics.
Sophie Heyman Uliano
#62. I hate cosmetics companies. They get you addicted to the perfect lipstick or nail polish and then, six months later, they discontinue it. You have to buy your favorite colors like you're storing up for the Apocalypse.
Lisa Kudrow
#63. I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
Iman
#64. From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business - that was really a breakthrough. It was huge.
Robin Wright
#65. People used to think I was so strange because my toiletry bag used to contain so many grooming items and cosmetics and stuff. But I think it's more acceptable these day for guys to take care of themselves.
Nick Youngquest
#66. Wearing cosmetics that were tested on animals makes you ugly on the inside
Ricky Gervais
#67. I owe the quality of my skin to my cosmetic surgeon,
Cindy Crawford
#68. ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.
Ambrose Bierce
#70. Your product choices and styling techniques will determine whether you love or hate your hair.
Nicole Harmon
#73. I can't imagine having cosmetic surgery because I have my values and little family who makes me feel incredibly accepted but you never know.
Izabella Scorupco
#74. Members of the Senate are considering a tax on cosmetic surgery. When they brought it up, you should have seen the look that Nancy Pelosi's face tried to make.
Conan O'Brien
#75. I would love to make a film about aging that would take place before the war. It would follow the stages in the life of a woman who would not have at her disposal the resources of today like cosmetic surgery, creams and pills.
Roman Polanski
#76. Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.
Cynthia Heimel
#77. I think the terrifying thing is you see all these people who go to the same cosmetic surgeon, and they end up, after a while, looking like everyone.
Cate Blanchett
#78. If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.
Bashar Al-Assad
#79. Just looking at all the faces here reminds me of some of the great work that was done this year ... by cosmetic surgeons.
Ricky Gervais
#80. Healthcare for trans women is a necessity. It is not elective. It is not cosmetic. It is life saving.
Laverne Cox
#81. The cosmetic industry seems to be a wholesale dumping ground for just about every single type of chemical that exists.
David Wolfe
#83. I love the confidence that makeup gives me.
Tyra Banks
#85. I'm curious how you'll know it works. I assume it's mostly a cosmetic change.
Scott Adams
#86. I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their expression and obscure their personality with powder, rouge, and lipstick.
W. Somerset Maugham
#87. Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.
Gwyneth Paltrow
