YOU ARE A BABE
SABINE MAIDA, BEAUTY EDITOR, GLAMOUR FRANCE
JULY 30.2012
by AIMEE BLAUT
"In the Nineties there was a first Glamour magazine created by Condé Nast. It lasted for three or four years and after that it was finished. It was the greatest magazine I’ve ever seen in France. Very often people would say that Glamour was going to be launched again and each time I wanted to be a part of the team. For a while it didn’t come back, it would be Jalouse or another launch. When the new Glamour was finally launched for real I was eight months pregnant with an extra twenty kilos [laughs]. I was working for another magazine called, Vingt Ans then. It was a very special magazine that doesn’t exist anymore, but very funny and unique. I was the Beauty Editor for this magazine and their idea about beauty was different. But I said okay I am going to try to see the editor in chief for Glamour and I will see what happens. I was sure that she wouldn’t take me because I was so pregnant and we didn’t know each other but I sent her a mail with a book of my work. She called me and said ‘ok we can meet each other.’ We talked and then she decided that she wanted me for this position. Condé Nast took me during my maternity leave. This kind of thing doesn’t happen often so I was very touched they trusted me. But I worked during my pregnancy and my baby was one week old and I was at work and taking meetings. It was very hard in fact but I don’t have any regrets, I was very happy to work for Glamour and it was nine years ago now, so it is a very long love story."
“I am not such a beauty girl. I am very natural; I think I am very French for this. At the same time I am a woman and a Beauty Editor so I have to test some stuff [laughs]. When I wake up the first thing I love to do is spray rosewater on my face. Afterwards I have a green tea then take a shower. I have sensitive skin so for my face I use a lot of La Roche-Posay and Avène—more pharmaceutical products. For my body I can try everything. I love the smells and textures. I take the time to nourish my skin with lots of Clarins Sérum Corps Peau Neuve it’s my basic and afterwards I use Aesop.”
“I know American girls wash their hair everyday but I can’t. Since I was young I’ve been told that if I wash my hair everyday it will be too dry so I wash it every other day. I put a lot of oil in my hair before I shampoo it. I’m a Mediterranean woman, from the French Riviera so I love oil. I use the Kiehl’s Amino Acid Shampoo with coconut. I love Kerastase and the brands of L’Oreal Professional. Shu Uemura Art of Hair products have great texture and smell nice. After I wash my hair I use a serum like the one from David Mallet or an Aveda cream for texture so I don’t look like a big head of hair. I never use any blow dryers though. I think when you have curly hair you need to come as you are. In France we have a sentence that means if you want to forget your natural way it will come back fast and strong.”
“I love to wear some splash after I nourish my skin. Tom Ford’s Neroli Portofino is amazing. I use so many because for me it is a very feminine and important gesture. It is not so much about the smell because the scents are very subtle.”
“I only wear a little makeup. I don’t use a foundation, just some powder from Givenchy, Croisière . Now that it is summer I have some tan so I try to keep it. Afterwards I add pink because it can look too brown otherwise with the bronzer. I don’t like eye shadow or eyeliner so much because afterwards I can be a mess like a girl coming home with everything all over. I use a lot of black mascara by La Roche-Posay. I have very sensitive eyes and this one is very gentle. Sometimes I put blue pencil around my eyes just to change it up, but if I don’t use this blue, I use nothing. I think black looks hard on me. At the end of the day if I’m going to a party I’ll wear lipstick. I like a good matte lipstick with a lot of color like MAC Lady Danger. For the day I prefer something more sweet, with color but not too strong.”
“The last thing I do before I leave the house is apply real perfume. I love No.19 by Chanel. I have had it since I was seventeen. It is my first and my all and my everything, my first love [laughs]. Sometimes I use L’eau Froide, by Serge Lutens it means cold water. It is very special because when you smell it, it is very cold but it is hot at the same time.”
Photos by: Aimee Blaut
Tags: Aesop, Avene, beauty, Beauty Editor, Chanel, France, French, French Beauty, Givenchy, Glamour France, Glamour Magazine, Glamour Paris, Kerastase, Kiehl's, La Roche Posay, MAC, Paris, Sabine Maida, Serge Lutens, Shu Uemura Art of Hair, Tom Ford
YOU ARE A BABE
EMILIE FOUILLOUX, BALLERINA/ DJ
FEBRUARY 27.2012
by AIMEE BLAUT
"I'm a ballerina, I will be a ballerina all my life, even when I stop. I was dancing at the Paris Opera Ballet since I was nine years old. I also danced for five years at La Scala in Milan. Because of my friend Chelsea, I also started a new passion, DJing; she really gave me her love of music. I am starting as a resident DJ at the Costes. I really love the Costes and they have been amazing, I trained with their amazing DJs Tom Costino and Simon Rezlem who are incredible. I do my ballet training in the morning and then I work on my music in the afternoon and at night I go and learn from the guys."
“I wake up in the morning and have my green tea which I think is good for my skin. Then I start putting my Avène, it’s like a fresh water. Then I clean myself and use my cream of Avène. I was not using Avène before but it was recommended and I like the smell.”
“I am a big big fan of perfumes, my best are: Annick Goutal, Jo Malone, Diptyque and Creed. I have all the different kinds but I never use commercial ones. I always try to look for something very special, perfumes avec des fleurs. I just found a new one that I like with white flowers. I change them a lot because I like to go back and smell them. It’s like a film, it reminds you of everything, the person, how, where-it’s funny. I love that.”
“I like the Laura Mercier concealer because it comes in a box with two colors. Since my skin is a little bit dry I use another one that is more creamy from the pharmacy, La Roche Posay. I use a bit of black on my eyes, but very natural. I’m not so much about mascara, just on stage. I use the Burberry one they offered me. I try to be very natural, never looking like I have too much on.”
“Sometimes during the day I wear lipstick but at night I always wear lipstick. I use CHANEL, which I love and I really like the smell of their lipsticks. I’m using also MAC, which stays on all night long because it’s makeup for shows — that’s what I use on stage.”
“I use Bioderma to take off my makeup at night and then Avène spray again. I use some special stuff from the dermatologist, but I don’t even know what is it, but it burns [laughs]. I also use a cream which is pretty crazy, it’s for when your skin is being bad. It’s not really working right now, because I’ve been drinking a lot of wine [laughs]. Then I go to bed and hope that when I wake up something’s going to happen.”
Photos by: Aimee Blaut
Tags: Avene, Chanel, Creed, Diptyque, EMILIE FOUILLOUX, Jo Malone, La Roche Posay, Laura Mercier, MAC
YOU ARE A BABE
CONNIE WANG, GLOBAL EDITOR, REFINERY29
DECEMBER 26.2011
by AIMEE BLAUT
"I grew up in Minnesota but then I went to school out in San Francisco. Um. . . I moved to New York and when I started at Refinery I was maybe the third editor they had. I was number six on their staff, now we’ve grown to maybe fifty people with a huge team. I’m the Global Editor, so I manage everything that shows up on the homepage for Refinery. I source freelancers and contributors that have really niche interests and I also write stories and trend reports."
“I don’t use face wash since I have very dry skin, if I wash it even once a day it gets super dry. I think it’s a well-known cardinal sin for beauty but it works fine for me. I use the Boscia luminizing black mask when I need to recover from a long weekend of debauchery. The only thing about it is you need to do it by yourself since it goes on super black. It peels off all in one sheet and is very satisfying. I feel super clean afterwards like it pulled out all the impurities and build up. Since I don’t wash my face this kind of thing is really helpful.”
“Since I live so close to where I work, I wake up fifteen minutes before I have to be at the office. My beauty routine starts with messing up my hair. I shower before I go to sleep and wake up with crazy bed head so I like to play off that. I use Bare Essentials on my cheeks because they can be a little bit red and some Bare Minerals bronzer and then Stila eyeliner and I’m ready to go. On fancier occasions I have this eye shadow palette that I’ve been using for like five years, it’s a mix of gold colors by Smashbox. I doubt they even make it anymore. I don’t wear mascara since I have really short eyelashes and I don’t think it makes much of a difference. I generally stick to Tarte lip balms or lip crayons because they stay on longer than lipsticks do. I picked up a lot of wet N’wild Halloween lipsticks that come in those vampire makeup kits – they’re super pigmented and last forever.”
“At my core I’m a very lazy girl but I’ll take risks with my nails. I’ve had stiletto and 3-D nails before, I’ll go all out. I’m also obsessed with body lotions and creams; I love La Roche Possay cus it’s made for sensitive skin. Otherwise I use this Avène body lotion – it’s a little thick though, so I only use it during the winter. I use a ton of hand lotions too and keep a million of them at my desk because I type all day long and forget to wear mittens during the winter. The Khiels ultimate strength hand salve, is my super serious one.”
“Working at Refinery I road test a ton of different treatments. Over the past two years I’ve had the most insane things done to my hair. I’ve gotten a perm, which was awesome for a couple of weeks and then just destroyed my hair. I’ve gotten it dyed six different times in the past two years and I’ve gotten really strange haircuts that took forever to grow out. My hair has seen everything and is super dry now. I try to take care of it with oils and deep conditioning treatments. The Rene Furterer intense hair mask and karite oil transforms my hair and makes it look amazing. I also use the Sally Hershberger wave spray and it smells so so good I end up over spraying it as perfume.”
Photos by: Aimee Blaut
Tags: Avene, Bare Essentials, Bare Minerals, Boscia, Connie Wang, Editor, Hair trauma, La Roche Possay, Nail Art, Refinery29, Rene Furterer, Sally Hershberger, Smashbox, Tarte
