Paris (AFP)

"The little comma on the outside and then you go inward". This is how Olivier Echaudemaison, who made up Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn and Sophia Loren, draws the doe's eye, an essential beauty accent for the day we will all have to go out masked.

"Women are afraid of the eyeliner, which is nevertheless" a fantastic thing ", declared to AFP the make-up manager and creative director of Guerlain, to whom the most beautiful women on the planet have entrusted their beauty.

But to get started, it's now or never.

Confined, we have time to follow the tutorials on the internet, train, miss the line, remove make-up, start again. Or even go further while having fun putting eyeshadows and highlighter, that touch of light to revive the complexion, or lengthen the eyebrows.

- Tips from veiled women -

Normally, lipstick is the product that sells the most in makeup, voted by nine out of ten women.

"In a crisis, women buy a new lipstick. It costs 20-35 euros, whatever, and they have a bright smile," says Olivier Echaudemaison.

But the current crisis linked to the coronavirus pandemic is not like the others.

The wearing of masks, widespread in Asia in times of epidemics, is now compulsory in several European countries. It has become so in some French municipalities and has been highly recommended for a few days all over the national territory.

The moment to enhance the look by drawing in the beauty secrets of veiled women, according to Olivier Echaudemaison.

"With the masks, there is no more mouth, so we make up the eyes", and immediately "the women take on the appearance of the Middle East".

Chic and sensual, the eye of a doe, this star makeup of the 50s and 60s immortalized by Audrey Hepburn or Brigitte Bardot does not go out of fashion and is easy to achieve if we go in the opposite direction, advises Mr. Echademaison.

- To sulk makeup is "a mistake" -

"If you start from the inside, you slip. Start from the outside, it's much easier. If you don't have an eyeliner in your makeup bag," a sharp pencil will also effect, "says the stylist.

And you don't touch the eyebrows that women "often pluck too much". "We must leave the virgin forest, it's more modern".

Not wearing make-up on the pretext that we don't go out anymore is "a mistake", according to Olivier Echaudemaison, who sees it as a sign of neglect.

For videoconferencing essential in this era of teleworking, "you should not be outrageously made up, but not appear to get out of bed either," he judges.

"We forget the eye shadows that will make it too sophisticated especially if we are going to tell sad or hard things. Clean hair, impeccable smile, mascara" will do the trick. "It is not worth putting on a smashing lipstick, rather gloss. It is not worth it to appear to be going to the Cannes festival".

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