The French way to wear lipstick is easier than you think
telegraph.co.ukrouge a levres. Even the words sound more seductive in French. There is scant possibility of the French ever abbreviating rouge a levres to “lippy”, as the British are wont to do.
Where am I going with this? Why, I’m going with the idea that French women wear lipstick with a panache and fanaticism that we Brits could learn from.
Well, I know I could. Think of French women in lipstick and red is indubitably the first colour that springs to mind. The film world is fecund with images of French women with perfect red lips.
The eighties had Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger (1983); the nineties had Isabella Rossellini in Death Becomes Her (1992), the early aughts had Eva Green in Casino Royale (2006), while in more recent years, red lips have been worn with seductive conviction by Marion Cotillard and Lea Seydoux, both in film and on the red carpet.
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