Makeup Sayings and Quotes

Whether you prefer to use a little, or a lot, makeup offers the opportunity to become a chameleon. All it takes is a simple switch of the color palette to change up your look. Let your inner beauty and creativity shine through with the collection of makeup quotes below.

Beauty is not about make up it's about what it makes you to be from within. Amit Abraham
For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner. Cheryl Cory
Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside. Coco Chanel
Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles. Sophia Loren
Beauty is power, and makeup is something that really enhances that it’s a woman’s secret. Charlotte Tilbury
Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick. Gwyneth Paltrow
Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror. Joubert Botha
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within strength, courage, dignity. Ruby Dee
It’s fun to be a woman. It’s fun to flirt and wear makeup and have boobs. Eva Mendes
Heels and red lipstick will put the fear of God in people. Dita Von Teese
Just because you want to be glamorous, don’t be a sheep about your eye makeup. Loretta Young
Real beauty isn’t about symmetry or weight or makeup: it’s about looking life right in the face and seeing all its magnificence reflected in your own. Valerie Monroe
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched. Mindy Kaling
The only way I’d be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue. Dolly Parton
I will not retire while I’ve still got my legs and my make-up box. Bette Davis
I love fashion, and I love changing my style, my hair, my makeup, and everything I’ve done in the past has made me what I am now. Not everyone is going to like what I do, but I look back at everything, and it makes me smile. Victoria Beckham
If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is, who cares? Tiny Fey