French Girl Makeup
The French Girl Makeup Look
When I went to Provence with A Taste of Paris, I was quickly inspired to pare down my makeup routine. There was something about the effortless French girl makeup I saw around me—natural, healthy skin that looked glowy and dewy rather than overly made up. Since then, that has been my makeup goal.
Natural, Glowy Skin: Typology
I primarily use two makeup brands on my face, and they both happen to be based in France. One is Typology. I love their TINTED SERUM as foundation and TINTED CONCEALER. I actually use 2 different colors of the concealer (the 2 lightest shades) depending on the time of year. You can see by the picture it is time for me to place an order. 🤣 Typology has clean ingredients, is basically skincare disguised as makeup, and even offers a skin diagnostic test on their website which helps you know what to order. For the record, I have also used their makeup remover and loved it as well as the Replenishing Tinted Lip Balm in Rosewood, which is a beautiful natural lip color! I love Typology!
French Girl Lips & Blush: Violette_Fr
The other French makeup brand I use is Violette_Fr. I absolutely love this brand and became a bit obsessed with their BISOU BALMS, a blurry matte lipstick that gives the just bitten look. I have every single color available. Yes, the typical French girl lip is a vibrant red (think AMOUR FOU), but I can’t help but love SUCETTE, which means lollipop in French. It’s a bright raspberry pink and I think it’s so feminine and fun!
I also love their BISOU BLUSHES, and have several of those colors as well. These cream stick blushes are made with a sfumato effect, a marble of color used by Italian Renaissance painters—you can see the sfumato in the picture below. This creates a multi-dimensional effect on the skin, giving perfect depth of a sun-kissed face. I use the colors INÈS and LOUISE the most. I also love that there is a little brush on the opposite end of the product.
When it comes to mascara, I have been a Lancôme Definicils girl since 7th grade. It is the only mascara I’ve ever used that is lengthening without clumping and doesn’t smudge onto my eyelids or undereyes. No matter what other mascaras I try, I always go back to Definicils.
In my opinion, the picture above is a good representation of how natural all the makeup I just mentioned looks, with the exception of the Sucette lipstick which is very bright. But isn’t it cute? I love a natural, glowy look, and I believe both Typology and Violette_Fr helps me achieve that with the help of my skincare. You can read my blog about skincare HERE.
French girl makeup, at least as I’ve interpreted it, isn't about looking like I’m wearing lots of makeup. It's about allowing my skin to look like skin, choosing a few products that enhance rather than cover, adding a beautiful lip or flush of color, and stopping before everything becomes too perfected.
