Makeup Quote by Maggie Oster

“Medal, Intrigue, Sutter’s Gold, Tiffany, Sweet Surrender, Double Delight, Climbing Crimson Glory, Don Juan, Royal Sunset, Rosa rugosa, Blanc Double de Coubert, Frau Dagmar…

— Maggie Oster

“Medal, Intrigue, Sutter’s Gold, Tiffany, Sweet Surrender, Double Delight, Climbing Crimson Glory, Don Juan, Royal Sunset, Rosa rugosa, Blanc Double de Coubert,”

— Maggie Oster

“could showcase her glittering and ridiculously huge and brand”

— Melanie Milburne

“She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament: Her eyes…

— William Wordsworth

“Robes, dresses, frocks. They hung in endless rows, in hundreds, one beside the other all around the room - gleaming brocade, fluffy clouds of…

— Tove Jansson

“Why was fabulousness important? The world was a scary, sad place and adornment was one of the only ways she knew to make herself…

— Francesca Lia Block

“Around her shone the nameless charms unmarked by her alone—the light of Love, the purity of Grace, the mind, the Music breathing from her…

— Carolyn Miller

“She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments.…

— Joseph Conrad

“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young…

— J. Ruth Gendler

“The diner’s candy-apple-red jukebox, recently named Gina after songstress Regina Belle,”

— Beverly Jenkins

“Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.”

— Jean Rhys

“once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of hair pins…

— Barbara Blatner