![]() ![]() How do we try this at home? White says there are two ways. “She looked nonchalantly beautiful - perfectly French,” notes White, adding that she has copied this approach ever since. Expecting to touch up her makeup, White was surprised to note that D’Ornano demurred, saying that she preferred it to look more like a stain than as though it had been freshly applied. ![]() ![]() White, who has tended to the faces of Rosamund Pike, Emily Blunt and Blake Lively, recalled a recent trip to Paris, during which she worked with Christine D’Ornano, global vice-president of Sisley, who turned up for the shoot already wearing the brand’s popular Rose Bolshoi shade. Too nervous to use a finger when my dexterity with a lipstick already leaves a lot to be desired, I asked the makeup artist Florrie White for more pointers. Her Instagram feed (find her proves that she herself is a strong advertisement for the technique. According to the creative director of Guerlain, Violette Serratt, French women love to blend the edges of their lipstick with their finger, to add a slightly blurred edge. For, according to a slew of experts, the secret to achieving that perfect red lip so beloved of the French is actually to embrace a soupcon of imperfection. With lip fillers and other cosmetic enhancements yet to become as commonplace as facials, the only way to achieve fuller lips was by virtue of your own shaky hand, and your willingness to go out looking as though you’d neglected to wipe your mouth after eating a jam sandwich.Ĭack-handed and dire as my own methods were, it turns out that they may not have been quite as off-beam as I imagined. By the time I had discovered Sade - a peerless red lip wearer who could hold her own against any French woman - alas, my own teenaged habit of going well over my lip-line was entrenched. Cotillard often wears Chanel’s Intense Matte Lip Colour in ‘Rouge Obscur’, a deep red shade, while Seydoux’s go-to is Lancome’s ‘Rouge in Love’, a tomato red hue.Ĭontrast these sirens with my own red lippy role model, growing up - The Cure’s Robert Smith - and I can begin to see where I am going wrong. Both actresses favour an ultra-matte red lip which looks indisputably French. The eighties had Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger (1983) the nineties had Isabella Rossellini in Death Becomes Her (1992), the early aughts had Eva Green in Casino Royale (2006), while in more recent years, red lips have been worn with seductive conviction by Marion Cotillard and Lea Seydoux, both in film and on the red carpet. ![]() The film world is fecund with images of French women with perfect red lips. Think of French women in lipstick and red is indubitably the first colour that springs to mind. ![]()
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