The French Girl Makeup Trick at Dior’s Paris Show launchmetrics.com/spotlight – LAUNCHMETRICS SPOTLIGHT
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If you want to do makeup like a French girl, you’ll need to toss out all of the rules, so the rumor goes. You won’t want to overline your lips or use any precision. You’ll keep your skin clean and unchiseled. And you should definitely skip mascara. It’s the Parisian way. No one knows this better than Peter Philips, the creative and image director of Dior Beauty.
For Dior’s fall/winter 2026 show, he drew inspiration from French women and their effortless, devil-may-care view of beauty. “A Parisian girl has beautiful nude skin, not too much done, and a bit of leftover makeup,” he said. This was pulled together by the hair look, done by hairstylist Guido Palau, which Philips said was inspired by London girls—a Kate Moss-esque messiness. “A bit of messy hair with a bit of messy makeup makes them look cool,” said Philips.
To create the beauty look, Philips wasn’t very messy himself. He started with the Dior Forever Skin Glow Foundation, which gave the skin a luminous, fresh finish. He kept the eyebrows natural but enhanced them by elongating them a bit. Like a true Parisian, he curled the eyelashes, but kept them bare and didn’t add any mascara. “Once you add mascara and lashes, it becomes something a bit more hot or seductive,” he said, which is something he was trying to avoid. For the rest of the eye look, he relied on the Diorshow On Stage Crayon Kohl Liner and used an easy “transfer” technique to make it look effortless. “I filled in the waterline, but not the bottom waterline, just the top,” Philips said. “Straight after, I asked the girls to squeeze the eyes closed, and then you have a leftover imprint, a trace of makeup on the bottom part of your eyes. That’s how we got the messy eye makeup, Parisian girl look.” On the almost bare lips, he opted for the Dior Addict Lip Maximizer, which he blotted down with a tissue before the models walked to take away glossiness.
Ahead of the show, Jonathan Anderson spoke about how influenced he was by water lilies for this collection in conversation with designer and Fashion Neurosis podcaster Bella Freud. While Philips didn’t take direct inspiration from Impressionism or water lilies in his work, he said that their influence was still there—“they justified the floral garden aspect and the naturality of the beauty look,” he said. According to Anderson, it’s water lilies for spring. And according to Philips, it’s French girl makeup forever.
Forever Skin Glow
Diorshow On Stage Crayon
Addict Lip Maximizer
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