Lily Aldridge Quotes

Just as dressing well in your forties entails making choices that reflect who you are and not just wearing generic basics, looking good as you get older requires accentuating and enjoying what's specific to you rather than striving for cookie-cutter perfection.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.

I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do.

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me.

Maybe it's my age, but I know I look good, so I'm not going to look like another person suddenly because I don't have makeup on - same hair, same person.

It is important for me to feel like myself on a red carpet - not the way somebody else thinks I should look.

Nature gave you your look and there's only a limited amount you can do about that, but what you wear is the skin you choose for yourself.

I don't chase beauty trends.

Don't ask me to cut my ponytail.

My style would be whatever I look my best in.

I don't think about my look that much, to be honest. It's what I've always known, it's what I've grown up with, and I wouldn't ever want to step too far away from my most authentic self.

I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she looks.' I do too. It's just that I'm not very good at it.

I like to wear less make-up and be tougher. The primp stuff is exciting for people, but it's less exciting for me. It's definitely fun, but I like low maintenance.

On wedding day you should look like yourself at your most beautiful

I can understand people wanting to look their best, and taking basic steps to do it, but I kind of admire people who are comfortable enough in their own skin to be who they are.

I'm Southern. I like big hair and eyeliner. I want my wedding day to be me, so I’ll probably be rocking some big hair and some eyeliner.

I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.