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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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Kevyn Aucoin
Age: 40 †
Born: 1962
Born: February 14
Died: 2002
Died: May 7
Businessperson
Make Up Artist
Make-Up Artist
Photographer
Shreveport
Louisiana
Beauty
Helping
Place
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First
Hoping
Trying
Makeup
People
Began

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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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I also have this incredible love for women.
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No amount of makeup can mask an ugly heart.
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Everyone is beautiful to someone.
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Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
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Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
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The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.
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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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I'm very passionate about what I do.
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I understood early that beauty was power.
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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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Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.
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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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Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
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If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.
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It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.
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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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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
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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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