Francois Nars Quotes
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Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet.
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Makeup is very important for a show. It's really an accessory on the runway. You have to be sure that it fits the clothes.
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When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look good. It's the same relationship that you have when you apply makeup on somebody. We're almost like shrinks.
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Go with what you're attracted to.
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We don't tell women how to look but give them the products and inspiration they need to feel and look beautiful.
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Working on fashion shows, you work with the designer and try to read his brain - what was in the creative process, what images did he have in his head?
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My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were very special, very elegant women, very beautiful women. They were my first step into the beauty world, let's say, and then the fashion world, of course.
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I'm not so interested in perfect, plastic beauty, and I think it translates in the girls I've shot over the years for Nars, from Guinevere to Iris to Mariacarla. I love those girls. I love the more interesting faces, with maybe a strange nose, not just the Texan blonde. By picking those girls, I think it's changed what I've seen in other campaigns.
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I'll keep creating modern, deep, rich and adventurous colors and products that inspire creative expression every day.
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Makeup is an accessory to fashion. You buy a bag, you buy shoes, you put on eyeliner, you buy a lipstick, makeup compliments the clothes.
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I didn't want to create a makeup line for one ethnic group; it had to be multi-ethnic. To me, beauty is beauty. It doesn't matter to me what colour the skin is.
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I chose makeup over photography because there was something very sensual about makeup that I loved. But photography was always in the back of my mind. That was always something that I was very connected with: looking at magazines, enjoying photography, and then taking pictures myself when I was a kid.
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When I was a kid, I loved photography, and I loved makeup.
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Some people put a lot of fuss around them. I'm not an entertainer. Let's not get things confused.
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I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.
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It was the early Seventies, and I discovered makeup by going through my mother's fashion magazines. I fell in love with the photos, the models, the fashion.
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Sometimes people are very not sure of themselves, so you really have to give them that confidence. Even models - they need to warm up sometimes on photo shoots.
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In America, when I first came here, they were used to wearing more make-up - thicker foundation, more Max Factor, that sort of thing. But you have to know who you are and what you look like: if you know yourself a little bit, you don't need to follow trends.
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I photographed Alek Wek. She was amazing, and nobody knew about her then. It was a really strong photograph of her.
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I think it's important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything.
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I've seen makeup destroy people and make them look bad if it's badly done.
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It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow.
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I would find myself in these photo shoots with models and makeup, and I got swept up in it all.
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As a make-up artist, you always want to be in a good light, whether you're walking down the street or in a restaurant. It is a very key element to me; you can't apply good make-up in a bad light.