Normani Kordei Quotes

I like to make the best of what I have. I'm not a supermodel, clearly. I'm not a makeup artist. I'm a real woman.

I love when a woman doesn't have to put on makeup.

If you feel good about yourself on the inside, that's gonna show to people. I don't think it's all about makeup and hair and how you dress. I think it's more of an inner thing and how you feel about yourself and that's ultimately what will shine through no matter what.

Bey's mantra isn't about putting on airs or makeup. For that matter, what makes Beyonce Beyonce is that thing we can all wake up with: confidence.

It's so easy to be insecure about your looks or if you're wearing the right clothes, or your hair and makeup. And I think it's just so important to stay true to who you are.

I don't think of myself as pretty. I am what I am.

I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whether I make the 50 most beautiful list or not, I'm always going to feel like I'm number one most beautiful to myself... I get that from my mom, and my daddy and my friends who raised me.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

I'm happy that I have a look, but I don't over-analyse whether or not it's beautiful or ugly.

Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.

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

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

There's always going to be somebody that you consider maybe more beautiful. But nine times out of ten here in L.A., that beauty isn't home grown. It's usually manufactured. It sort of encourages me to work more within myself because I think that's not what appeals to me. Plastic and tons of makeup.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

It is beautiful to be what you are.

I think what makes someone pretty amazing is being comfortable in your own skin.

Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.

People can tell when you're happy with being you and when you're not. It's only cheesy because it's true. As I've gotten older and grown into my body, I've started realizing that the way you carry yourself and that light coming out of your eyes are the most attractive things about you.

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?

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.

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

There's something magical about a woman who feels comfortable in her own skin.