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Kevyn Aucoin

Profession : Artist

Birth : February 14, 1962

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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Yes, but everyone is beautiful to someone.

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I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.

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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!

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Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

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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.

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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.

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I'm very passionate about what I do.

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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.

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I also have this incredible love for women.

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I spent much of my life hiding.

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I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

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

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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.

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