Kevyn Aucoin Quotes

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Kevyn Aucoin

Profession : Artist

Birth : February 14, 1962

The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.

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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.

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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.

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I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.

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Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.

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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.

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While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.

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I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.

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I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

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Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who he wanted me to be. Everything I did was criticized. I would spend three months drawing something and show him, and he would look up from his paper and just look back down. I got no approval from him for anything I did that was creative.

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I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still.

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