Francois Nars Quotes
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Women don't want to feel like they're wearing makeup. I hope I was partly responsible for that.
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My vision was to create makeup that was more transparent but with formulas that last. I follow my instincts - it's all very spontaneous!
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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 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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A fresh face with a red lip is timeless. It's supermodern and relaxed but very chic.
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You create the color first, and then the name that fits. It depends - there are no rules. You watch a fabulous old movie, and you suddenly get inspired by it to create a lipstick shade, or you walk through a gorgeous garden and find the most beautiful flower shade for an eye shadow, and then you name it.
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True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless.
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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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Wearing colourful eyeliner in a graphic shape is the epitome of make-up as an accessory.
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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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You are born with this love; fashion and beauty are a part of who I am.
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We love those under-eye circles. It's real life.
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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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Women are being more experimental with eye color.
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I don't think there's a major change between runway and real life anymore.
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I think everyone deserves to look better and to look good.
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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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Women have to find their own personality, their own style, and what suits them the best.
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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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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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I thought make-up was a very sensual thing.
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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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I never stop thinking about names of products. It's a process that happens 24 hours a day.
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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.