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Naomi Jamieson

The 4 French makeup essentials our beauty team always have in their bags

A close up of Digital Beauty Editor, Fiona McKim's handbag, laid on a green velvet background with a pink tube of Dior's Lip Glow visible - with a silver chain resting across it/ features in a pastel pink template.

There's something about products that hail from France that just feel so elevated and chic. Be it fragrance or skincare, if it graces the shelves of Parisian pharmacies, we want it. Alas, we can't have it all, so to narrow things down a touch, these are the French makeup buys our beauty team rely on daily.

Were you to gaze upon our team's dressers and into their bathroom cabinets, it would be a veritable who's who of French skincare and French perfumes. Chanel, Dior, La Roche Posay and Diptyque are just a few of the iconic brands that can be found there, and that's before we've even gotten to the makeup products we class as essentials. The French approach to beauty is famously elusive - somehow maintaining a shroud of secrecy even though we (and by 'we', we mean the beauty world, as a whole) talk about it all the time.

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