Pretty Parisian
Marie Claire South Africa|December 2017

FRENCH WOMEN are celebrated for their effortless beauty– a combination of flawless skin and innate composure. How do they do it? JUANA PARATHYRAS travels to Paris, the home of beauty house Sisley, to find out

- Juana Parathyras
Pretty Parisian

I’m sitting at a sidewalk café in Paris during one of the worst heat waves the city has seen in recent years. Around me, Parisian women stand, wine glass in hand, looking as they always do: gorgeous, happy and completely at ease. I, on the other hand, may actually be melting...

On my quest to solve the mystery of the French’s perennial beauty, I start with one of my favourite brands, Sisley. Its founder, Hubert d’Ornano, is French beauty royalty; his father created Lancôme, and he himself started Orlane before creating Sisley with his wife, Isabelle. Sisley offers some of the most innovative and efficacious anti-ageing skincare on the market, so I posed my question to its team: ‘How do French women always look so incredible?’ Here’s what I learned.

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