French tell US beauties, spare your blushers

Scotland on Sunday ^ | June 4, 2006 | ELAINE SCIOLINO

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

How's this for American beauty?

[doberville]

French women have an awareness and self-acceptance their Yankee cousins lack. Their resources are usually limited; thus, a great deal of time and thought is spent on each purchase. The French ladies do not have closets full of clothes. They have one good outfit.

As for make-up, what was true for Grandmother is true today: To be well made up, one should look as though they weren't wearing ANY.

[blu]

Now, c'mon, French make-up experts. Tell the truth. Even if you don't call a week's worth of grime on your face make-up, we know it is. We have this really cool stuff over here called soap. You should try it.

Actually, I think this article is just revenge for the American phrase "like a French whore" - used when the blue eye shadow is extremely bright, or the WalMart buy by the gallon toilet water has been applied too liberally. If the French would just wash and shave, they might start liking themselves. Wow, and I thought Catholic bashing was the last bashing allowed!

[Caipirabob]

Yes, Vizcaya. We like to take trips down to Miami and visit there, then we check out the Science Museum across the street with the kids. Later on, we'll make a stop at the Brasilian Rodizio Restaurant Porcao. We've got a bunch of new Brasilian places up here near Boca now, so we don't have to make the trip when we're looking to eat. Still, Vizcaya is still really nice to visit once a year or when we have guests.

I'm itching to see some new stuff though. We've been here long enough that we've done all the SoFlo attractions so many times it's like visiting the back yard.

[alnick]

They both look trashy.

[GnL]

Where can I get one of those cookie cutters? Does Williams-Sonoma carry them?

[JohnCliftn]

We killed the server hosting the Juliette Binoche pic.

[freema]

ROTFLMAO. The French can't attack anything, then when they decide to muster some balls, it's to attack American women. They really could take a lesson from some real American Beauties Those French whores have a lot of nerve. Too bad it isn't worth anything.

[Shqipo]

Goooooaaaaaaallllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[small voice in the wilderness]

I am especially enamored of the french-braided legs and underarms of the *keepers of beauty advice*.

[Vision]

LOL, French women are upset that American women are happy.

Come on American women, be more thin, pale, smoking, stinking, hairy, secular, Prozac chomping, and drowning in Islamic hate.

[Vision]

Speechless. What happened to Kelly Bundy?

[najida]

Audrey Tatou has the prettiest, most expressive face I have ever seen!

BTW, the irony of all this is that several of the biggest make-up companies are French based/owened...
Lancome'-Loreal,
Chanel,
Yves Rocher ,
Guerlain,
Expanscience,
Dior,
Clarins,
Yves Saint Laurent,
Lever Fabergé,
Sté Bic,
Bourjois etc.

And lets not forget the perfume industry either :)

[Straight Vermonter]

Of course our women are protecting the free world...

[mgist]

I would say that this is sort of true, except that the fashion obsessed are them. American women generally have busy schedules and are too caught up their every lives to pay enough attention to "fashion trends". I have a few freinds stuck in the eighties.

God forbid anyone is out of fashion or overweight in other countries. That is more offensive than having smoke blown in your face. I can't say I really saw any exceptionally pretty women when I've been in Paris.

[GVnana]

As usual, the French are wrong.

I would argue the "no make-up look" originated in California in the late 1960s-early 70s in rejection of the French and English "painted doll" look. (The French always have these funny blind spots...)

What the French are calling a "California look" is actually street Hollywood/TV. And the South has it's own ideas of womanhood.

Message to Catherine Deneuve: if the French aren't treating you right, you're welcome here.

[Vision]

I must confess that I think French women the most beautiful in the world, followed closely by Indian women...I must agree with the author about the "American Beauty" look - it is overdone...but if I could look, walk and talk like a French woman, I would be much more attractive to guys

I think you need some help. As a young American male who gets more than his share of women's attention, I have no idea what you're talking about. French women are only sexy to other women. Good luck to you.

[driftdiver]

man you just ruined it for me. ugh

[ßuddaßudd]

[ExpatGator]

"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.'""

French women cannot be flashy, as the wombat hair enveloping their armpits, legs, and upper lips absorbs the lights in their vicinity. They are light traps with bad attitudes, who smell of cheap cigarettes and B.O. thinly masked with eau de toilet. AARRRGGGHHH, this brings back unpleasant memories!