“If someone had advised me to get rid of eye makeup earlier!” Jane Birkin once expressed to Vogue.
Birkin, who passed away this week at the age of 76, was referring to the Swinging ’60s era when she left her native England and arrived in France with exaggerated eye makeup and layers of lower-lash mascara.
In the following decade, the gap-toothed gamine abandoned heavy makeup to embrace a more natural approach. As she later mentioned, “It was nice because then you looked like yourself in the mornings.” It is this effortless elegance, now immortalized on countless Instagram accounts, that has come to symbolize Birkin, defining laissez-faire beauty for a new generation of French girls in training.
Whether with her long, tousled hair piled on top of her head or with a short cut while on stage in a cashmere sweater and worn-out jeans, the actress, singer, and songwriter always advocated for a fresh look achieved not with coveted cosmetic products but simply with a smile. “It takes 10 years off!” she famously said. Wise advice from a woman who was, and will always be, an eternal beauty icon.
Below, we take a look at the highlights of Jane Birkin’s beauty moments.
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