Francois Nars Quotes
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Find your own way, have an open spirit, and believe in your own beauty.
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Wearing colourful eyeliner in a graphic shape is the epitome of make-up as an accessory.
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I made contours and all that, but in real life, you have to be very careful with that because you can go out in the street and look terrible. All those girls who show how to do contour, they do it quite well, but they're like makeup artists. They're in artificial light.
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I had no connections, and the fashion world was a closed elite. So my mother made appointments for herself with three top Parisian makeup artists and spoke highly about me... she was my first publicist!
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True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless.
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Kate Moss makes you dream. She has such a passion for art and the creative process.
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I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.
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I like shocking, but I don't like to shock as an automatic process. Sometimes it happens, but it's not my main drive.
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Women are very unpredictable.
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You are born with this love; fashion and beauty are a part of who I am.
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I don't think there's a major change between runway and real life anymore.
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Women are being more experimental with eye color.
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A fresh face with a red lip is timeless. It's supermodern and relaxed but very chic.
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I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines.
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I think everyone deserves to look better and to look good.
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We love those under-eye circles. It's real life.
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I really wanted to have a different approach of beauty because when I came to America, they were still heavily, heavily plastic. The ads were so heavily retouched.
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My mother hated foundation; she hated having a mask on her face - and she pushed me to build my own vision and concept of beauty for women.
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I was a very lucky child because at the age of 16, 17 years old, my parents would buy me clothes from Yves Saint Laurent, which was an incredible luxury at the time, but I was attracted to that whole world. I had a pretty nice little wardrobe by the age of 17.
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I thought make-up was a very sensual thing.
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Women have to find their own personality, their own style, and what suits them the best.
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There is a tendency to feature more actresses on covers, but I'm a big model lover. I grew up watching these models, and they gave me the wish, the need, to work in the fashion industry. I loved watching them - their beauty, the way they worked in front of the camera and that power of transformation, especially in the Seventies.
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Sometimes I'm attracted to more odd girls with stronger faces and features or a softer beauty with a lot of character.
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It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.