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Kevyn Aucoin was a highly influential makeup artist known for his unique artistic style and profound understanding of makeup art. His work had a profound impact on the fashion and entertainment industries, earning him the title of 'Picasso of Makeup'. Born on February 14, 1962, he passed away on May 7, 2002.

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“If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.”

Ifs Want Trying Looks Ideas Fun Creative Having Fun New Ideas Be Creative

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“Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.”

Thinking Trying Self Hard Conscious Essence Uniqueness Glamour Self Conscious Trying Really Hard

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“Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.”

World Emotion Knowing Path Effects Hatred Know Yourself Overlooked Adverse Underestimated Adverse Effects

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“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”

“Beauty has a lot to do with character.”

Inspirational Character Beauty Inner Beauty

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“Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.”

Life Heart Funny Life Is Beauty Lips Ugly Mask Shade Too Short Eyebrows Life Is Short Life Is Too Short Hottest Life Is So Short Life It Too Short

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“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Joy Fun Knowing Position Hair Perception Dresses Oneself Corrections Makeup And Beauty Perception Of Beauty

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“That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.”

People Trying Firsts Helping Makeup Helping People Makeup And Beauty Beauty Makeup

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“Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.”

Ifs Faces Mistake Perfection Boring Makeup Artist Not Being Perfect

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“Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.”

Ifs Beauty Forgiveness I Realized Forgiven

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“There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.”

People World Two Passion Type Passionate Beaten

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“I spent much of my life hiding.”

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“I'm very passionate about what I do.”

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“I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.”

Middle Huge Travel Funny Travel Middle Of The Road

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“Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.”

Looks Talent Prove Ugly Actresses Pathetic Jessica Amazing Talent

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“Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.”

Growing Up Growing Mom Ideals My Mom Streisand

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“I also have this incredible love for women.”

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“I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.”

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“It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.”

Want Should Heart Soul Brain Exercise Your Soul Makeup Heart And Brain

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“The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.”

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“When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.”

Men Growing Up Growing Comfort Ran Abusive

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“I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.”

People Whole Seems Film Talking Tvs Industry Actresses Insult Lighting Comeback Not Talking

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“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.”

Thinking Knowing Perception Oneself Makeup And Beauty Perception Of Beauty

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“I never went wrong by being myself.”

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“My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.”

Men World Helping Life Is Force Compassion Taken And Love Perseverance Missions Routes Missions In Life

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“I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.”

Giving Ends Use Advice Authority

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“I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.”

Made Home Running Earth Mother Found Lost Born Birth Catholic Charity Miles Crash Landing Outlaw February Infamous Birth Mother

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“Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.”

Light Energy Quality Overwhelming Angelic Audrey

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“Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.”

Inspirational Might Beauty Makeup And Beauty Beauty Happiness

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“Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul, and sometimes even in myself.”

Soul Sometimes Today Faces Beauty Teaching Beauty Everywhere

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“The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty”

Different Facts Normal Essence Karma

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“This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the case for many of us, Tori's ancestry is a mix of races and religions, philosophies and professions, fortunes and foibles. What to some may seem like a family tree grown wild and untamed is actually a mighty oak that has weathered life's many storms and can still put out a rare and beautiful blossom like Tori.”

“I understood early that beauty was power.”

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“The future belongs to thouse with open minds aand open hearts, who can appreciate beauty in all it's forms.”

Life Mind Heart Form Appreciate Open Mind Open Heart Appreciate Beauty

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“I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.”

World Firsts May Bigs Steps Laughing Worst Mess Changing The World Makeup About Yourself First Steps Good Laugh Makeup And Beauty Beauty Makeup

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“For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.”

Differences Accepting Perfection Individuality Boring Celebrate Uniqueness Mundane

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“It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.”

Men Individual Men And Women Dare Envy Admire Free Spirit Spirited

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“Makeup should be fun, not fascist.”

Should Fun Makeup Fascists

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“No amount of makeup can mask an ugly heart.”

Heart Amount Ugly Mask Makeup Inner Beauty Makeup Artist

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“There are no rules when it comes to makeup!”

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“Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.”

Perception Makeup And Beauty Perception Of Beauty

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“Everyone is beautiful to someone.”

Beautiful Everyone Is Beautiful

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“Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.”

Feels Today Joy Humanity Embrace Deny Negativity Joy Happiness Waking Up In The Morning Choose Life Joy And Pain Choose To Be Happy Life And Choices Choosing Happiness You Choose To Be Happy

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About the Author

Born: February 14, 1962
Died: May 7, 2002
Known for: Make Up Artist
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