#cosmetics

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil? ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#cosmetics #mocking #taunting #anger

I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life." I shrugged again, and smiled. "This is my life," I said. "It doesn't seem like the wrong one. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#hair #haircut #identity #life #self

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#animal-rights #animal-testing #animal-welfare #animals #cosmetics

I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#cosmetics #entered #healthful #i #industry

Cosmetics is one of the few masculine refuges a man has left. It is the presentation that makes the predator. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #masculinity #funny

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality. ↗

— Sandra Brown

#came #careers #cosmetics #did #i

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#grow #humor #men #more #more and more

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope. ↗

— Charles Revson

#drugstore #factory #hope #make #sell

People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#asset #cars #company #cosmetics #definitely