“I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.” DifferentYoungGirlStyleColorHairClothesDifferent ThingsDifferent StylesDifferent Colors Author:Joss Stone
“If I wear bright colors or something, I'll tie all my hair back. I don't want to look too like 'Girls Next Door.'” IfsWantLooksGirlNextDoorsColorHairTiesBright Colors Author:Sophie Monk
“The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.” StoriesLightYoungGirlBreakColorPraiseSensitivePrisms Book:The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers
“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.” LongTwoRunningGirlThreeSeaStreetsColorRiversTownsCleanFishesSmellWideMilesBarsBoatNosesLakesFishingRoofCrowdedCurlsGasolineSteepWhiskySensuousNightclubsAphrodisiacGaudyPiersFishing BoatsMackerel Book:Advertisements for Myself Source: Advertisements for Myself
“I'm really just a throw-my-hair-into-a-ponytail kind of girl. I don't like styles that are too neat or too done. I don't think I'll ever go too crazy with colors. I stick with my main two: goldish-blonde or black.” ThinkingKindTwoDoneGirlBlackCrazyStyleColorHairSticksNeatBlondeKind Of GirlPonytails Author:Trina
“The more traditional bride still prefers white or ivory, but the young girls... seem to like the idea of using colors.” StillsIdeasSeemsYoungGirlWhiteColorTraditionalBridesIvory Author:Reem Acra
“I really get inspired by stylish girls around the world that I see on the street. Colors, patterns, throughout my travels, whatever catches my eye.” WorldEyeGirlStreetsColorInspiredPatternsAround The WorldStylish Author:Olivia Palermo
“Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.” PeopleImportantBodyGirlRaceColorSkinsLike MeRepresentationAwkwardnessSkin Color Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.” MenMadeGirlSexSinVirtueColorHumorousVicesOddAmusingChastity Author:Voltaire
“I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation... so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type... I'm like, 'Hey girl, magenta!' and she's like, 'Oh, you mean purple!' and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, 'No - I want magenta!'” WantMeanDifferentFeelingsGirlColorTypeHeyPurpleCrayonDifferent ColorsArticulationColors Of LifePeriwinkleMagentaVibrant Colors Author:John Mayer
“Generally I would say that I'm not a super-adventurous shadow girl. I'm all about a lip, eyebrow, and mascara, but through the years, working with different talented makeup artists, I learned how awesome eye makeup can be if you get it right. That's how we got the colors we came up with.” IfsYearsDifferentEyeArtistGirlColorShadowLipsMakeupEyebrowsAdventurousThrough The YearsMascaraMakeup ArtistEye Makeup Author:Gwen Stefani
“All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess.” WayGivingDifferentRealFeelingsRealityFacesUsedGirlBlackWhiteEmotionTalkingTakenColorHairPersonalityModelsRedAddPopsDramaticPrincessCartoonExtensionsNot TalkingFuturisticSyntheticDifferent ColorsFakenessReal HairRed And Black Author:Guido Palau
“Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In this generation, it's sad to see so many black girls claiming ethnicities that they know nothing about in hopes of impressing a man or appearing 'exotic'. So many people act as if being black and beautiful is impossible. It's not. If we wanna get technical and look at our history, almost every black American is mixed. But we must stop implying that a woman's beauty comes from a part of her that is not black.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWorldLooksBodyEyeBeautifulGirlBlackImpossibleGenerationsColorHairTypeImpressBlack WomenTextureExoticAppearingColorfulEthnicityThis GenerationBlack GirlImplyingBody TypesEye ColorWomen's Beauty Author:Skye Townsend
“Pop stars are sending the message that their sexuality is the strongest thing they have to offer, and that's confusing and misleading to girls and women, especially since there's not enough of a counterbalance from those who rely on their other assets, like their music. Also, with the new obsession with all things "booty," it's important that women - and it's often women of color - aren't turned into mere caricatures. Right now it's: "Bend over." That's all people want to see. That's crazy. It's so far from where we should be.” PeopleWantShouldImportantEnoughGirlStarsCrazyColorRight NowOffersMessagesAll ThingsMerePopsSexualityObsessionRelyStrongestAssetsConfusingMisleadCaricaturesPop StarsBooty Author:Santigold
“I always carry around a giant makeup case with about fifteen items in it. I so want to be the girl who just carries lipstick as if that's all I need, but I'm just not that girl. I need my lipstick, but then, just in case my cheeks start to lose their color, I need my blush. Then I'll need my oil pads...so I just take the whole thing. And now I need a full on fashionable backpack for it all!” IfsWantNeedsWholeGirlLosesCasesColorOilGiantsMakeupCarrieCheeksFifteenItemsFashionableLipstickThat GirlPads Author:Analeigh Tipton
“That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.” ArtYoungGirlBlackTermAbilityWalksInfluenceColorPaintingHistoricalMuseumsBrooklynBlack GirlSpecificity Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I find it very sad that so many girls who look up to me are young women of color who have been told that they are ugly, and who feel that they are not normal...I think it's so important that women look like me find that they can be beautiful or objects of love, attention and affection.” ThinkingFeelsLooksHas BeensImportantBeautifulYoungGirlAttentionObjectsColorNormalAffectionUglyLike MeLook UpYoung WomenVery Sad Author:Mindy Kaling
“Women of color, particularly Black girls from economically challenged strati, we are told from the minute you start showing signs of being able to be impregnated: Don't get pregnant. You can't have sex because you might get pregnant. You can't wear short shorts because you might get pregnant. Don't talk to boys because you might get pregnant.” MightAbleGirlSexBlackBoysMinutesColorPregnantShortsBlack GirlShort Shorts Author:Staceyann Chin
“When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows.” ShowsBigsGirlSpeakWeekFashionColorContractsDisappointedFashion Week Author:Beverly Johnson
“I tended to be a solitary young girl, and I still am. I would like to find a quiet corner and color in my coloring book. When I think back, I made that corner mine, not really caring about the rest of the house.” ThinkingMadeStillsBookYoungGirlHouseMinesColorQuietCornersCaringSolitary Author:Evangeline Lilly
“The documentary we are working on is about my mother, Bev Umehara, for whom our film company, Bev's Girl Films, is named after. It is a passion project that I have wanted to make since her unexpected passing in 1999. The film is about my mother's calling which came late in life, at 47, when she made the sudden transformation from a humble hardworking secretary and mother of four, into a labor activist, a respected union leader, and a role model for rank-and-file workers, women of color, and for all Asian Pacific Americans.” MadeWantedFilmMotherGirlPassionCompanyLeaderRolesFourColorCallingProjectsLateModelsLaborTransformationUnionsWorkersHumblePassingPassingsUnexpectedActivistRole ModelsSecretaryDocumentariesAsianFilesPacificHardworking Author:Garth Kravits
“A friend of mine, Kim Hastreiter, who owns Paper Magazine, she told me, "When you left, it really changed things and you need to do something." So with the encouragement of others, I stayed around and watched, and I saw that all the girls before, such an enormous group of girls of color, all shades, it began to disappear.” NeedsGirlLeftSawsGroupsChangedMinesColorPaperEncouragementDisappearEnormousMagazinesShadeKim Author:Bethann Hardison
“I've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13.” LittlesAgeGirlMy OwnInterestingColorHairBrushesIntriguedTweakPerms Author:Nicki Minaj
“I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.” PeopleWantWritingI CanYoungGirlCan DoStupidColorDecidedPurple Author:Danica Patrick
“From when I was a really small girl on, I would pick every fabric, every color on the walls, and I was always redecorating. Like once every couple of months I would redecorate my room. I had a full wall that was all collage - the entire wall - when I was in junior high. And then it would kind of morph with me as I was growing.” KindGirlRoomsGrowingColorWallMonthsCouplePicksFabricJuniorsJunior HighCollagesSmall Girl Author:Chloe Sevigny
“Go to a wig store with your girlfriends, never by yourself. You need someone to say, 'Girl that looks good!' You need someone to encourage you to try pieces on. Try to purchase a wig close to your natural hair color as possible, don't come in with brown hair and try to leave as a redhead unless you are fine with that!” NeedsTryingLooksGirlNaturalPiecesColorHairFineStoresGirlfriendBrownWigsYour GirlfriendNatural HairBrown Hair Author:Sherri Shepherd