Carmen Carrera Quotes

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

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

My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.

I hope to inspire others to be confident in their own skin and to love themselves with makeup or without.

When I am going out, I am in ponytail, jeans, tees. I am just like any girl-next-door. Beauty is not external; it's internal. When you are a happy soul, you would be beautiful any time.

You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it.

I couldn't care less what anyone thinks about me. When I look in the mirror and see what's looking back at me, I'm incredibly happy. Nobody's opinion is going to change that.

I don't need a man to tell me he loves me; I don't need this industry to tell me it loves. I love myself.

When you see me on TV against one of the other girls, they look 10 times better than me, and I'm OK with that. I make a conscious effort not to wear that much makeup and not have my hair so perfectly groomed. That's just not me. I'm not going to be perfect.

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

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 was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

I know who I am and I've always been comfortable in my own skin.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

There is nothing more beautiful than a confident woman.

I often feel like a pretender when wearing makeup. The most beautiful features in a woman are her character and her experiences. Why hide that?

It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.