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French tell US beauties, spare your blushers
Scotland on Sunday ^
| June 4, 2006
| ELAINE SCIOLINO
Posted on 06/03/2006 11:33:01 PM PDT by MadIvan
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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator
To: JohnCliftn
Can someone tell me why the two french women quoted look like 12 year old boys?
Maybe we should have nuked France instead of Japan.
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:02:10 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(The social contract is breaking down.)
To: MadIvan
"The image "du jour" of "le no make-up" look is Audrey Tautou, with magazines featuring the 29-year-old Da Vinci Code star without jewellery or any visible make-up, except for a slight tint on her lips. Even her beauty marks have not been airbrushed away."
"Actresses Juliette Binoche and Nathalie Baye are also regularly featured in magazines for embracing the natural look."
If they think these actresses don't use makeup, they are smoking something good. You can use tons of makeup to get that natural look.
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:02:50 AM PDT
by
peggybac
(Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
To: T'wit
I personally like a relatively unadorned face. Simplistic beauty often is best, and women who smear their eyes with purple eyeshadow can appear extremely sexual but trashy.
That said, I have no idea why the French singled out Americans in this regard. Ever been to Russia? You could very easily drop a woman off the streets of Moscow and just assume she was as prostitute here in the US given the amount of makeup she wears. And Russian women NEVER step outside without makeup. Truth be told, I like this, as they dress up for the occasion, as well (which probably says that I lack a well-dressed woman more than I care about makeup). Still, point is that there are a lot greater offenders of this "unnatural" look than Americans.
"Instead, French women invest more time aiming for perfect, blemish-free skin."
By smoking how many packs per day?
To: sully777
LOL. I don't like French women either. Actually, I don't like any of the French whom I met while working in Antwerpen Belgium on a Seagrams project.
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:05:32 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
(All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
To: lmr
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:06:31 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
(All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
To: sully777
French News
To: MadIvan
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:13:04 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Build the fence. Sí, Se Puede!)
To: Democratshavenobrains
C'mon guys, I know the French are idiotic 99% of the time, but they are right about this. Standards of beauty have gone downhill in the last decade.I'll second that. Subtly applied make-up, tasteful clothes, a pleasant demeanor, and a H/W proportionate figure make a great first impression on me.
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:14:41 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: CheyennePress
Ummm we have them too. It's like some cookie cutter spits them out.
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:14:57 AM PDT
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: Cobra64
Antwerpen Seagrams...do tell.
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:15:43 AM PDT
by
sully777
(wWBBD: What would Brian Boitano do?)
To: MadIvan
By contrast, Mercier added: "French women are not flashy. They must be subtle. The message must not be: 'I'm spending hours on my face to look beautiful.'" I agree.
Years ago I heard a make-up tip: if it takes longer than five minutes to put on your make-up, you're putting on too much. I lived by that before I knew it was a maxim, and do so to this day.
However, I look like death if I don't wear blusher and lipstick, being very fair skinned. Nobody's opinion is going to pry my blusher and lipstick out of my hands!
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:17:15 AM PDT
by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
To: CheyennePress
Oh you just had to bust out a Melissa Theuriau pic, didn't you!
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:19:08 AM PDT
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: sully777
That < gasp gag > post needed a WARNING! TOXIC MATEIRAL! before it.
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:19:16 AM PDT
by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
To: CheyennePress
Unadorned is good.
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:23:03 AM PDT
by
T'wit
(It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. -- H.L. Mencken)
To: CheyennePress
Why isn't SHE hosting the CBS evening news???
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:26:42 AM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: MadIvan
Looks like Audey wears plenty of make-up to me.
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:35:50 AM PDT
by
Old Seadog
(Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
To: MadIvan
>>
Michèle Fitoussi, one of France's leading social commentators and a columnist at French Elle magazine, branded the "painted-doll" look "vulgaire". I think it looks pretty good. And these are all French girls -- at a beauty pageant in French Tahiti.
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posted on
06/04/2006 12:41:42 AM PDT
by
T'wit
(It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. -- H.L. Mencken)
To: T'wit
I've seen plenty of french girls in france painted up like 2 dollar hookers and they weren't standing on street corners.
Once again, the french are flapping their arrogant gums in another sad pety attempt to bash the US. They should spend more energies worrying about the islamic takeover of their country.
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posted on
06/04/2006 1:23:20 AM PDT
by
Proud_USA_Republican
(We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
To: Democratshavenobrains
Gotta agree with the French too. American women use way too much make-up to the point where they look like guys dressing in drag.
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