Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin

I'm not saying that putting on makeup will change the world or even your life, but it can be a first step in learning things about yourself you may never have discovered otherwise. At worst, you could make a big mess and have a good laugh.
Kevyn Aucoin

Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
Kevyn Aucoin

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Kevyn Aucoin

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.
Kevyn Aucoin

My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.
Kevyn Aucoin

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.
Kevyn Aucoin

There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them.
Kevyn Aucoin

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty has a lot to do with character.
Kevyn Aucoin

Trying to conceal the fact that I was a gay, effeminate, hyperactive, adopted child with a serious lisp in southern Louisiana would have been like trying to hide Dolly Parton in a string bikini!
Kevyn Aucoin

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.
Kevyn Aucoin

It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.
Kevyn Aucoin

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
Kevyn Aucoin

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.
Kevyn Aucoin

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
Kevyn Aucoin