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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Makeup should be fun, not fascist.
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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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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.
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There are no rules when it comes to makeup!
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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'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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No amount of makeup can mask an ugly heart.
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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.
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I was a regular little boy who also enjoyed things that girls did.
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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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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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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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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.