Joan Collins Quotes

Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.

You can't get away from fashion. The whole beauty thing is everywhere. It's just really weird.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

The cosmetic industry really took off in the 1950s.

Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.

What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.

American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

I find most men don't like a lot of makeup.

America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

I have nothing against people having work done, it is when I hear tale of girls of 16 queuing up to get bigger breasts, that is when I despair.

If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.

I've actually spent a lot of time researching beauty products, how they are produced and how they are sold.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

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

On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Prom drops girls squarely into the beauty spending pipeline.

I have endorsed every hair product in my career. Looks have been my bread, butter, jam. Looks are important in our society.

We are constantly driven to believe that women should look a set age or be a certain body size, which is fuelling an obsession with ever more dramatic and invasive steps.

Beauty is like a new class system. The world is so obsessed with beauty; it has been for the last 2,000 years. It's the one stock that's never gone down, the one stock that's never gone out of fashion.

Remember that true beauty comes from within - from within bottles, jars, compacts, and lipstick tubes