Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
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Self-care is the non-negotiable. That's the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.
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I wanted long hair my whole life. When I was a little kid, my mom would be like, 'We get our hair cut once a month.' So I just always got my hair cut.
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One of my closest friends is a trans man who is incredible. And a lot of my clients are trans women.
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You want to be more hairy, that's beautiful. You want to be more clean-shaven, that's great.
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I was a chubby kid who got made fun of a lot, and I got fit in high school, and I stayed fit in my 20s, until my dad died.
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I love 'Downton Abbey.'
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In service industries, we can be so people-pleaser-y that you don't know how to set your own boundaries.
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I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.
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I started growing my hair out when I was, like, 22, 23. I just stopped cutting it.
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I think my ability to joke and laugh about things is because I'm forced to. I've been through a lot of things in my life that, if I didn't make light of it, I would literally keel over.
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To me, self-care isn't really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life.
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Men and women can be friends, and it can just be friendly.
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I'm just waiting for the first #MeToo moment to happen from a salon because the culture of how assistants are treated, especially in salons in L.A. and New York, is, like, truly unbelievable. You're expected to clock out for lunch and never get paid. You're expected to be there an hour early, stay two hours late.
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I like people too much. I really do.
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If I read something on the news that really irritates me, I get my rageful venting out on Twitter. I'm more of my light side on Instagram.
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We're all just trying to do the best we can with what we know!
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When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.
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In yoga, we say that everyone has a magnet on them, and you're either positively or negatively charged. So if you're liking how you're looking, you're gonna be more positively charged.
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Typically, you're not gonna find me out at night; I don't go to industry parties. Like, I will go sometimes if I'm invited, but usually, I'm, like, home by 11.
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I grew up in a little town where my family owned a newspaper and the TV station, so a lot of people knew who we were, and I never fit in.
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I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.
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I'm good at following my own grooming advice.
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I wish I had more of a game plan of how I'm going to, like, take down toxic masculinity. But I think that game plan is just going to reveal itself if we keep going. I think I need to keep plugging along, and it'll happen.
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In states where there's one really big city, a lot of outlying counties and smaller towns really don't have very many resources.