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A lady is a woman who never unintentionally offends another.
~ Annonymous Southern wisdom
Sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.
~ Annonymous
Our strength is often composed of the weaknesses we're damned if we're going to show.
~ Mignon Laughlin
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
~ Mignon Laughlin
... women are the architects of society.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
We write our own destiny. We become what we do.
~ Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The means IS the end.
~ Annonymous
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
~ Anita Roddick
... some of us just go along ... until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us - or should I say we refuse to let them intimidate us?
~ Peggy Lee
If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
~ Diane Ackerman
As I started looking, I found more and more.
~ Valerie Steele
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
~ Diane Ackerman
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
~ Brooke Astor
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
~ Alexandra Ripley
Asserting yourself while respecting others is a very good way to win respect for yourself.
~ Janice LaRouche
...as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Peace means loyalty to self....And loyalty to one's self meansnever a gap between thought, speech, act.
~ Ruth Beebe Hill
Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.
~ Anita Roddick
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
~ Amy Tan
The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.
~ Charlotte - Catherine
Don't be humble. You're not that great.
~ Golda Meir
... there is a luxury in being quiet in the heart of chaos.
~ Virginia Woolf
I praise loudly; I blame softly.
~ Catherine II
...what matters most is that we learn from living.
~ Doris Lessing
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
~ Oprah Winfrey
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
~ Martha Grimes
...in dreams begins responsibility.
~ Edna O'Brien
I got myself a start by giving myself a start.
~ Madam C. J. Walker
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
~ Julia Child
Without discipline, there's no life at all.
~ Katharine Hepburn
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
None of us suddenly becomes something over night. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime.
~ Gail Godwin
... this thing that we call "failure" is not in the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford
I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.
~ Mary Oliver
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
~ Mary Oliver
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
~ Mary Oliver
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
~ Mary Oliver
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation or a relationship.
~ Deborah Tannen
The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.
~ Thea Astley
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
~ Ann Landers
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
~ Patti Smith
The only real elegance is in the mind. If you've got that, the rest follows from it.
~ Diana Vreeland
Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table
~ Diana Vreeland
I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.
~ Diana Vreeland
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
~ Diana Vreeland
At times... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.
~ Gail Godwin
The way you say a thing is part of what you say, so you have to choose the right way.
~ Isabel Bishop
Never tell people what you are not. Introduce yourself in the affirmative.
~ Annette Polan
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
~ George Eliot
What you think is the heart may well be another organ.
~ Jeanette Winterson
... what women want is what men want. They want respect.
~ Marilyn Vos Savant
The events of your life will color you and your life. The trick is in picking the colors.
~ CMMP
The beginning is giving...
~ Muriel Rukeyser
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
~ Toni Morrison
Don't be afraid to feel as angry or loving as you can.
~ Lena Horne
... We didn't choose our jealousies, dealt us like a hand we'll never play exactly right.
~ Christiane Jacox Kyle
Fancy lovers never last.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
I proudly show my lovely face to the Earth and Sky.
~ Francesca De Grandis
Adore your inner and outer beauty, and that of other people.
~ Francesca De Grandis
Love is like laying checkers. You have to know whivh man to move.
~
Jackie "Moms" Mabley
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
~ Iris Murdoch
They err, who say that husbands can't be great lovers.
~ Annie Finch
If you can't hold them in your arms, please hold them in your heart.
~ Lorraine Hale
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead!
~ Fannie Flagg
The past is not a package you can layaway.
~ Emily Dickinson
She knew what all smart women knew... Laughter made you live better and longer.
~ Gail Parent
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~ Ralph Waldo
Emerson
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
~ Chinese Proverb
Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.
~ Roseanne
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~ Confuciu
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~ Johann von Goethe
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
~ Marie Stopes
Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude.
~ Grey Livingston
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
~ Saint Augustine
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
~ Rosalind Russell
Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
~ Garrison Keillor
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
~ Ivan Panin
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
~ Helen Keller
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
~ Sophia Loren
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
~ Miss Piggy
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
~ Dorothy Parker
The road to success is always under construction.
~ Lily Tomlin

FAQ

How do you pronounce KYPRIS?

Both syllables rhyme with a kiss: ‘KIP-RIS’ Muah!

From where does the name KYPRIS come?

You can learn about the goddess on our ‘about’ page here.

How do I mix and match my KYPRIS products?

First and foremost, always with kind eyes and kind hands.

Second, always apply with a loving, honest compliment. Practicing real appreciation of ourselves can be a potent salve when offered with integrity, courage, and a willingness to see our divinely unique Beauty. This offering validates our experience of ourselves. After all, isn’t your opinion of yourself the only one that you have to live with. Might as well cultivate a good one.

Third, here’s a link to KYPRIS Alchemical Rituals by skin type. Emphasis on Alchemy, as many patrons come to us with an imbalanced skin type and discover months later they no longer have dry, dehydrated, oily, or combination skin. To begin, be where you are and choose what is best for you right now. We are here to evolve with you.

What is your return or exchange policy?

We do not accept returns. However, if something is damaged in shipment or if there is a problem with the product, please send a photo to care@kyprisbeauty.com, and we will send a call tag for the damaged pieces as well a replacement.

Why do you not accept returns?

All KYPRIS products are made from ingredients procured by small farmers, co-operatives, wild-crafters, and boutique green chemistry laboratories. Due to the highly specialized and unique nature of these ingredients, we do not accept returns of open products.

We want you to absolutely LOVE your KYPRIS products, so if you are unsure about which items are meant for you, we encourage you to take advantage of our Discovery Kits available here.