Kevyn Aucoin
Kevyn Aucoin
Kevyn James Aucoinwas an American make-up artist, photographer and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth14 February 1962
CountryUnited States of America
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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!
beauty essence fact learned living opportunity traveling work
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.
karma essence facts
The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty
absolutely life lost love stood time
I was absolutely lost in love and life when I did my drawings. Time stood still.
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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.
girls regular
I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.
death kids left threats threw
Kids threw rocks at me, told me I was ugly and left death threats in my locker.
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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.
american-artist beauty everywhere face single soul
Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.
men envy free-spirit
It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.
incredibles
I also have this incredible love for women.
hiding
I spent much of my life hiding.
mother running home
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.
mistake perfection faces
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.