Exhibit A, Emmanuelle Alt
Editor in chief of French Vogue. Mother of a crazy-cute little girl . Leather leggings-wearing rock and roll badass. Observe the merest stain of color high on cheeks, just under the eyes and over the bridge of the nose, like a faint tan obtained while berry-picking, and matching lip.
Exhibit B, Lou Doillon
Daughter of Jane Birkin. Mother of Marlowe. In case anyone is wondering, her last name is pronounced "Dwah-yon," not "Dillon." Observe again a matching stain on lips and high cheeks, just under eyes. The undereye placement is fantastically consumptive/opium den-esque. Very Lord Byron. Lou has said she uses lipstick as blush, a trick she picked up from her granny. Are you sensing the pattern?
Exhibit C, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
First Lady of France. Mother of Aurélien. Musician/songwriter. Working a flush high up on the cheeks, almost like a just-drank-a-glass-of-wine flush, and again, matching lip.
So the idea is to look like you are:
a) just in from a wholesome jaunt in the sunshine,
b) an eccentrically chic grandmother who daubs lipstick on her cheeks, or
c) faintly, dewily, drunk
and of course, in all of the above scenarios,
d) are wearing hardly any makeup
The best thing about this look -- besides following in the footsteps of these awesome icons -- is that it's virtually impossible to do wrong. I have just been rubbing my lips with little taps of NARS Red Lizard, smudging it into an allover stain, and then using the exess on my fingers to blend into my cheeks. It really doesn't look like you're wearing any makeup -- just like you're a naturally flushed, dewy, louche, vaguely depraved grandmother, in the most fabulous possible way.
Photos lovingly borrowed from Garance Doré, Huffington Post, and The Chronicle of Higher Education
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