There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.
Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.
It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
I have problems because I'm very expressive, and usually red lipstick gets on my teeth and face.
I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
Running in heels can be treacherous, and don't get me started on fake eyelashes!
I think that makeup can be challenging, especially when you are younger.
I have combination skin so if I wear too thick foundation, I can feel it sliding off in areas, and then I'm conscious of it all day.
The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.
