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" Go with what you're attracted to. "
Francois Nars
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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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" Some people put a lot of fuss around them. I'm not an entertainer. Let's not get things confused. "
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" Makeup is very important for a show. It's really an accessory on the runway. You have to be sure that it fits the clothes. "
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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 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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Create
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Vision
" Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet. "
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" I would find myself in these photo shoots with models and makeup, and I got swept up in it all. "
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" I was spoiled growing up in the 1970s because magazines were publishing the photographs of Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin without compromise. You really felt that sense of freedom through their images. "
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Growing
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" Kate Moss makes you dream. She has such a passion for art and the creative process. "
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Art
Passion
Dream
" Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes! "
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" I'm not an easily depressed person. "
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" I think if you take good care of your skin, you can achieve better make-up. "
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You
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" I thought make-up was a very sensual thing. "
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Thought
Very
Thing
" You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have. "
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Job
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" There was a time when you would dream about, say, movie stars. Now, you virtually follow them into their bathroom when they're going to the loo. "
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Time
You
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" It's very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into something else. "
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Clear
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Head
" Women have to find their own personality, their own style, and what suits them the best. "
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Personality
Women
Suits
" It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me. "
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Vulgarity
Shock
Shocked
" 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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You
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" Women are very unpredictable. "
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" Makeup is an accessory to fashion. You buy a bag, you buy shoes, you put on eyeliner, you buy a lipstick, makeup compliments the clothes. "
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Fashion
Clothes
You
" It was the early Seventies, and I discovered makeup by going through my mother's fashion magazines. I fell in love with the photos, the models, the fashion. "
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Early
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" Makeup can make a woman look more beautiful at every age. "
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Look
Age
" My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were very special, very elegant women, very beautiful women. They were my first step into the beauty world, let's say, and then the fashion world, of course. "
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" Women are being more experimental with eye color. "
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Color
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" True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless. "
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Elegance
Than
" I love strong looks, so to me, no makeup is strong. As long as it makes a statement, that's what I like. The girls look very real, and I'm probably the only makeup artist who will say that I love a woman without makeup. "
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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'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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" 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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World
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