Iris Apfel Quotes

When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

I realize as you age the less makeup you wear the younger you look.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

A lot of women say, 'I look good thanks to magic creams,' but that's a joke.

As I get older, I feel like I look better with less makeup. More makeup just creases more and looks like you tried too hard to cover up a bunch of stuff, versus 'OK, I've got decent skin, and that's what I'm going with.'

If I grow older like my mum, I'll be happy. She's never touched her face. She has laughter lines but looks lovely.

I have tried all my life to look after my skin, so I never do things like go to bed with make-up on. I also always use moisturisers. But I certainly do not believe in Botox or anything like that. The thought of it just makes me think 'urgh'.

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

You know what actors are like; they moisturize every night. They're frozen in time.

My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful.

I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.

I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?

Even when I get dressed up to go out, I never use too much makeup.

As far as vanity and wrinkles and things like that, that's a part of life I don't worry about. I put on creams, you know, but don't go mad, and I don't have any kind of treatments. I just live a healthy lifestyle. And staying happy, not getting negative and angry, I think that helps, looking at the positive of everything.

I think Chrissy Teigen takes great care of her skin. And so does Hailey Baldwin. They don't wear a ton of makeup. It's nice to be confident without it. I admire that.

For me, beauty is more about prevention than anything. Especially now that I've hit 30, it's more about being careful and maintaining my skin. I want to keep my youth and freshness and be wrinkle-free as long as possible because I don't want to have to cheat - that's what I call any cosmetic surgeries: cheating.

There is no shame in wanting to age naturally or wanting to 'age gracefully' with a little help from products or procedures.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

If you don't like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don't keep talking about it.

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.