Francois Nars Quotes
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Having worked with so many of the geniuses, I'd learned so much. It's the best sort of photography school, to work with people like Penn or Avedon or Meisel.
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You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have.
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True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless.
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My goal was always to make the girl look real and look beautiful. It didn't matter how much makeup. Sometimes it was none at all.
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I wanted to be a make up artist. I did it, and the road that I took was quite good.
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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 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 don't want to feel like they're wearing makeup. I hope I was partly responsible for that.
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Wearing colourful eyeliner in a graphic shape is the epitome of make-up as an accessory.
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Women are being more experimental with eye color.
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I'm always scared of trends. The runways are always so trend-oriented, but I always feel for the women. The real women that buy cosmetics want to see the trends, but they don't necessarily go for them. And I always encourage women to find what looks best on them.
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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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I loved working with Avedon.
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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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Women have to find their own personality, their own style, and what suits them the best.
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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 are born with this love; fashion and beauty are a part of who I am.
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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 don't think there's a major change between runway and real life anymore.
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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 think everyone deserves to look better and to look good.
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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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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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My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had.