Top 70 Anastasia Soare Quotes

Being asked by Oprah Winfrey to be on her show and do her eyebrows in 2006 – to me, that was like getting an Oscar. It was a stamp of approval from a woman that is incredible. It propelled my career to a different level.

Going to beauty school and art school in Romania helped me to think of why we use makeup, and it’s exactly how you do portrait. You use pencil to make a 3D effect. Makeup is the same… You are able to create an illusion of perfection and balancing proportion.

I love RuPaul.

I’m surrounded by a lot of women and they really inspire me every day.

Women think that smaller brows will open up their eyes, but that’s wrong and it affects your entire face.

A man should not get his eyebrows shaped, he should get them groomed.

In my early 20s, living in a communist regime in Romania, success to me simply meant leaving and coming to America.

Eyebrows are everything!

We all have different brow bones, and different amounts of space between the eyebrow and the lashes; the space on the upper lid is bigger or smaller, the space on the bridge of the nose or between the eyes is wider or narrower. Everyone is different.

Living in Constanta under communism, we did not have the ethnic diversity that I then encountered in America.

In America people get depressed for no reason. They say, ‘I’m sad my boyfriend didn’t call me.’ I tell them, ‘How would you like to spend 12 hours on a line to get bread or a chicken?’ That is depressing.

You couldn’t have too many dreams because in the Communist regime, everything was cookie-cutter.

The only thing that will change with fashion is the brows’ thickness or thinness. Every season the arch will be the same.

When you’re trying to recreate an era, eyebrows and hair are the most important thing to consider.

I have a Pasquini, the old-fashioned Italian coffee machine. I have to make my coffee because I know exactly how much I want and how strong I like it.

Draw attention to the brow bone by accentuating the area between the eye and the brow with a highlighter.

I’m not saying I’m the best. There are many painters in the world. But there is only one Picasso.

I like to do my eyebrows last – but of course, it’s down to personal preference. For me, I do them last because then I can balance out my entire make-up look with my brows at the end.

You should shape your eyebrows according to your facial structure.

I did not play with dolls. I played with a little hammer, paint and wood.

Start step by step. I didn’t start being a big company in the beginning. You go to the bank for loans when nobody knows about you.

While designing, sewing and cutting patterns for clients, my mother was always telling me to make sure the upper part of the body was balanced with the lower part, an A-line skirt to minimize hips or shoulder pads if a client was smaller on top. I was training my eye to create balance.

Eyebrows are the framework for the entire face.

Richer brows give you a sophisticated, feminine look.

A mechanical brow pencil can create the appearance of fine brow hairs.

Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

I came up with this technique with eyebrows – where they should start and where they should end – which I patented.

I don’t ever take lunch. If I were to go to lunch I would waste four hours.

Me and my daughter, we are obsessed with makeup and so are our followers, and we communicate, we want to know what they like, what they want, what is their perfect, ideal product that’s missing on the market? So everything we create, we share and we give credit to our followers.

When I finally came to the United States, I was forced to get a job right away. I spoke no English – none. I started working as an aesthetician in this beautiful boutique salon in Beverly Hills. Being an aesthetician didn’t require an elaborate vocabulary in English. My first client was Cindy Crawford! I swear.

Use Anastasia Beverly Hills Perfect Brow Pencil to outline the brows and give them more definition. To soften edges, comb color through with the spooley end.

In Romania it was normal that when you got a facial someone would tweeze your brows.

People didn’t believe that eyebrows were a business. I believed in it, and I think that’s enough. If you believe it, you can do it.

It’s fun to experiment like Rihanna, but if you start tweezing brow hairs excessively, I can guarantee they won‘t grow back.

Models used to shave their eyebrows so they could pencil them in very thin.

We don’t want to do what everyone else does. We want to create trends. We like to think outside of the box.

Studying technical design and art gave me the ability to see things in 3-D.

Brows that are too round tend to elongate the face making eyes look droopy and tired.

A thicker brow looks more feminine.

If your eyes are far apart, bringing the brow shape closer together gives the illusion of shorter distance between the eyes.

Your eyebrows should be proportional to your face. If they’re too overwhelming, it doesn’t work.

If you have a bold brow, it’s best to forgo a super-smoky eye and make the lips dramatic instead.

In 1997, I decided to open a salon in Beverly Hills. At that time there were no products for eyebrows, so I developed a line.

There weren’t any brow products when I was in my 20s. Women simply tweezed! Now, of course, I use every single brow product I make.

If you have belief in what you do, you have a great technique, good quality product and a good service, you can expand even when there is economic turmoil.

Eyebrows are the most difficult beauty feature to master – we all have different bone structure, brow texture, and coloring.

I’m not a fan of brows that look blocky and square-like at the front.

A great pair of tweezers should feel like they are vibrating as if they have a spring. If the tweezers don’t do that, they won’t work well at all.

When I went to art school in Romania, we learned the Golden Ratio Technique Theory, which taught us that when you draw a portrait and want to show an emotion, you change the eyebrows. They are the most important feature on the face.

If you hair is dense, you’re lucky! All you need is a pair of Precision Tweezers to remove stray hair and a trace of Brow Wiz pencil to perfect and clean up edges.

Marilyn Monroe had thick, dark eyebrows even though her hair was platinum and it looked gorgeous. It worked because she had brown eyes – dark eyes can handle a dark brow even if the hair is blond.

I use the golden ratio to create the perfect shape on my clients’ faces.

For fragrance, I only wear Portrait of a Lady by Frederic Malle. People at work know I’m there when they smell it.

Hair on the eyebrow droops because of aging, so a groomed eyebrow on a man opens the eye and makes him looks younger.

In Romania, during the communist regime, we were very culturally suppressed. At 18 years old, I wasn’t allowed to wear bell-bottom jeans and eyeliner. I couldn’t understand why!

The first thing I do before I get out of bed is reach for my phone and open Instagram.

If you’re lacking hair in your brows, applying powder over a waxy pencil will make the color stick.

The fact that I didn’t speak English I think was the most difficult thing for me.

Avoid needlepoint tweezers as you can easily injure yourself. And very square tweezers can shear the hair versus plucking it out from the root, causing the appearance of an ingrown.

It doesn’t matter how late I come home – it could be two o’clock, three o’clock in the morning – I have to take off my makeup.

When I’m in the bathtub, I could have my champagne here and my caviar, just to be glamorous enough. I work really hard and I deserve everything.

You can’t survive if you don’t make money. But as far as I’m concerned, we never, ever make a product with the idea that we’d make a lot of money. We make products because we’re inspired by the idea that people will love it.

I was fresh off the boat from Romania, and one of my clients was the agent to all of the ’90s supermodels: Gail Elliott, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford. I had no idea who these girls were! They were so gorgeous, absolutely the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life.

I do my hair and makeup every day like I’m going to a party.

My goal is always to bring a sense of balance, symmetry, and proportion to each individual face. The brows are an essential starting point.

When I meet a woman, I know how her brow will look.

Women love lash tinting because it makes the eyes really pop in red-carpet photos.

My daughter was the one actually who believed in social media – she pushed me to get into Instagram, Snapchat, and everything else.

If I want something, I will get it. I am the most ambitious person you have ever met.

People in the beauty community don’t like copycats, so I think it’s important to stay true to who you are and people will stay your customer.