5 French Girl Beauty Rules to Steal from the Chanel Resort Runway
By now, it's a well-established fact that French girl beauty is synonymous with all things effortlessly chic, but a breakdown of the basics—as in the real hard and fast aesthetic principles any self respecting Parisienne swears by—is always a welcome refresh. Thankfully, today's Chanel Resort 2019 show was no exception, sending out a checklist for francophiles-in-training who took a front row seat inside the Grand Palais show space before a Coco-themed ocean liner. Here, five simple rules worth stealing from the runway for that elusive bonne mine.
Rule #1: Maintenance trumps makeup; good skin—the kind that's slightly flushed and dewy from a hot summer day in Provence— is everything.
Rule #2: Should Rule #1 fail to occur naturally, nothing beats a swirl of lit-from-within creamy blush—bonus points if it takes a cue from a rosy quilted logo clutch.
Rule #3: The instant allure of a graphic onyx cat eye is indisputable (just look to gobsmacking Gallic beauties like Brigitte Bardot and Anna Karina for proof). But the right shape is tailored to your own unique eye shape—because a French woman never chases trends.
Rule #4: A bouncy blowout is the kiss of death—and so, for that matter, is a boar-bristle brush. Laissez-faire hair begins with a gust of wind and finishes with a hint of can't-be-bothered bend and a finger-raked sweep of the hand.
Rule #5: The post-workout ponytail? C'est pas chic. A low-sitting beret, set slightly askew, secures flyaways and let's you concentrate—stylishly, that is—on the business of the day.
