57 Francois Nars Quotes for You to Enjoy

Francois Nars

French Businessman

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Wearing colourful eyeliner in a graphic shape is the epitome of make-up as an accessory. Francois Nars

Wearing Shape Accessory Epitome Graphic

I like shocking, but I don't like to shock as an automatic process. Sometimes it happens, but it's not my main drive. Francois Nars

Sometimes Drive Main Like Shock Shocking Automatic Happens Process

Sometimes people are very not sure of themselves, so you really have to give them that confidence. Even models - they need to warm up sometimes on photo shoots. Francois Nars

You Confidence People Sometimes Photo Photo Shoots Give Sure Up Very Models Shoots Them Warm Themselves Really Even Need

My interpretation of the word 'ugly'... I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we have phrase 'jolie laide.' We like certain women who are not pretty or cute - it's the opposite in France of pretty. It's more strange and interesting. Francois Nars

Strange Women Ugly Word Beauty Cute Interpretation France Phrase Pretty More Like Opposite Happen Interesting Certain Who

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. Francois Nars

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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. Francois Nars

Buy Time Me Age World Old Luxury Parents Clothes Nice Incredible Would Pretty Had Attracted Because Saint Years Very Child Which Wardrobe Little Whole Lucky

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. Francois Nars

Me Women Vision Mother Face Mask Beauty Build Own Hated My Own Having Pushed Concept She Foundation Her

I'm not an easily depressed person. Francois Nars

Easily Person Depressed

When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look good. It's the same relationship that you have when you apply makeup on somebody. We're almost like shrinks. Francois Nars

Good Relationship You Feel Good Somebody Photograph Someone Almost Feel Like Know Look Make Makeup Same Want Them Shrinks Apply

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! Francois Nars

It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. Francois Nars

Nature Book Personality Sometimes Wake Up Down Think Our Rather More Small Gives Poetry Write Jot Name Names Opera Wake Up Than Get Lipstick Middle Literature Movies Products Fun Even Keep Traveling Street Night Number