My bathroom is filled with hair and makeup stuff and I play with it all the time. What the real lesson is, is that you can own your own sense of beauty. It doesn’t have to be something you get from somewhere else.
TRACEE ELLIS ROSSSelf-care of all kinds is a huge part of my life. I really encourage other women and other people to really put self-care – and that includes the beauty regime, how you eat, all of that – into your body.
More Tracee Ellis Ross Quotes
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I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
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I’ve always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.
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Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it’s as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?
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I hope they look at me and think, ‘That lady looks like she accepts herself’.
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I’m a farmer’s market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that’s local, and it hasn’t been frozen yet, it’s pretty fantastic.
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Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.
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Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.
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The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models’] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.
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I’m trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.
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I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.
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My mom didn’t adhere to any of those typical rules. She woke us up for school every morning, and was there at dinner or would call at bedtime. She never left for longer than a week. She recorded while we were sleeping.
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Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn’t? These are questions that I’ve been pondering my whole life.
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It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.
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I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.
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I’m a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life – joyfully.
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