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French tell US beauties, spare your blushers
Scotland on Sunday ^ | June 4, 2006 | ELAINE SCIOLINO

Posted on 06/03/2006 11:33:01 PM PDT by MadIvan

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To: MadIvan
How's this for American beauty?


61 posted on 06/04/2006 5:11:41 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (One flag--American. One language--English. One allegiance--to America!)
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To: CaliGirlGodHelpMe
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.

62 posted on 06/04/2006 5:12:02 AM PDT by doberville
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To: MadIvan
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!
63 posted on 06/04/2006 5:12:32 AM PDT by blu (People, for God's sake, think for yourselves)
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To: Vinnie
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.

64 posted on 06/04/2006 5:24:02 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Cobra64

They both look trashy.


65 posted on 06/04/2006 5:25:28 AM PDT by alnick
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To: sully777

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


66 posted on 06/04/2006 5:25:45 AM PDT by GnL
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To: Centurion2000

We killed the server hosting the Juliette Binoche pic.


67 posted on 06/04/2006 5:27:44 AM PDT by JohnCliftn (In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will. - Churchill)
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To: MadIvan
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.
68 posted on 06/04/2006 5:28:06 AM PDT by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: CheyennePress
Goooooaaaaaaallllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
69 posted on 06/04/2006 5:29:46 AM PDT by Shqipo (2006 is Bush Country!)
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To: MadIvan

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


70 posted on 06/04/2006 5:31:45 AM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual...if they sense scorn or ridicule, they'll flee)
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To: MadIvan
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.
71 posted on 06/04/2006 5:32:41 AM PDT by Vision ("There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence" Ronald Reagan)
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To: T'wit
Speechless. What happened to Kelly Bundy?

72 posted on 06/04/2006 5:34:53 AM PDT by Vision ("America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet"- Reagan)
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To: JohnCliftn

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 :)


73 posted on 06/04/2006 5:35:39 AM PDT by najida (The internet is for kids grown up-- Where else could you have 10,000 imaginary friends?)
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To: MadIvan
Of course our women are protecting the free world...


74 posted on 06/04/2006 5:37:28 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (The Stations of the Cross in Poetry ---> http://www.wayoftears.com)
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To: MadIvan
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.

75 posted on 06/04/2006 5:38:41 AM PDT by mgist
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To: MadIvan
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.

76 posted on 06/04/2006 5:38:53 AM PDT by GVnana (Former Alias: GVgirl)
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To: CaliGirlGodHelpMe
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.
77 posted on 06/04/2006 5:39:18 AM PDT by Vision ("America's best days lie ahead. You ain't seen nothing yet"- Reagan)
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To: T'wit

man you just ruined it for me. ugh


78 posted on 06/04/2006 5:41:57 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: CheyennePress
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79 posted on 06/04/2006 5:54:58 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero » with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
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To: MadIvan

"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!


80 posted on 06/04/2006 6:16:24 AM PDT by ExpatGator (Bite me California.)
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