Barbie Ferreira Quotes

When I meet young girls, I'm always like, 'Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because it's the greatest gift I can give.'

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her.

What we all learn is that beauty isn't a size 2. It's not a size 4. It's not a size 12. It's how you feel.

When you feel good about yourself, it doesn't matter what you're wearing. You are at home.

Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.

I think it's so important just to have confidence in your body. Everyone knows that confidence is sexy, and it's knowing your assets, your strengths, and just playing those up.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

I just want women to feel beautiful.

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

I would much rather feel comfortable and feel beautiful, than to feel uncomfortable, but look fantastic.

Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin makes me feel confident.

I'm not a girl who needs to put on a whole face of make-up before I leave the house.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling comfortable with yourself, than that kind of shows. I think that as cheesy as the pageant industry can be seen at times, it actually does help women - boosting their confidence and growing into their own. I have to give it credit for that.

I'm not an eye-candy kind of girl.

I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

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.