Kami Garcia Quotes

I've been told to wear different things, to look different, to lose weight, to look sexier, to wear more hair, to wear more makeup.

I do not wear a lot of makeup. On social media, this seems to work both in my favor and against me.

In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.

I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

I think I ended up on 'People's '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyeliner, which is kind of a bummer. But if you do find the right color, it will make your eyes pop.

There's no way I could look like this without them.

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

It was once people began taking my picture every time I left the house - because it's an easy fashion shot - that I started getting a bit weirder about going out without any makeup on, and I think that's when I started wearing foundation every day.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not against makeup. If I could manage looking like 'me' in a way that also read as tastefully, invisibly airbrushed, I'd sign up for that faster than you could choose a filter to do it for me.

My actual desire is to be able to comfortably walk out of my house without any makeup on and feel as beautiful as I do when my makeup artist beats my face.

Prom drops girls squarely into the beauty spending pipeline.

Being pretty was always a very big thing growing up.

Makeup is such a weird concept. I'll wake up in the morning and look in the mirror. 'Gee, I really don't look so good. Maybe if my eyelids were blue, I'd be more attractive.

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.

I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.

You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.

You should see me without makeup.

Whenever I see young girls wearing way too much makeup... you're young, you don't need that much.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

I think wearing less makeup can seem a bit scary for some women because we get so used to seeing ourselves look a certain way.

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.