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Watch Model Cindy Bruna Be Incredibly French About Her Makeup

Watch Model Cindy Bruna Be Incredibly French About Her Makeup


Paris-based model Cindy Bruna stands nearly six feet tall, her towering curls, deep brown eyes, and warm skin recalling her Italian and Congolese heritage. Having been in the spotlight for the likes of H&M, Victoria’s Secret, and Calvin Klein, Bruna is often asked how she makes a whirlwind schedule of campaign shoots and runway shows look effortless.

Her workout routine? Nothing crazy, a few squats. Her diet? Wine and cheese—and anything her grandmother is cooking. Her beauty routine? See for yourself how the French girl does the perfect night-out look. It involves a lot of hydration, a little concealer, and lip gloss in the most unexpected places.

First, a spray of an orange blossom tonic and multiple drops of face oil—“don’t forget the neck,” Bruna says in French—then, a swipe of all-purpose Egyptian Magic balm on her lips. She touches up her now-dewy base with liquid concealer, everywhere but her nose and cheeks, “so you can see the texture of my skin,” she says of the no-makeup makeup look beloved by so many Gallic stunners.

Now, she’s ready for the main event: a “little” smoky eye that she makes out of faded black liner, a reddish-brown shade blended into her lid’s crease, and a touch of gilded shadow in the innermost corner of the eye. The look is topped off with two coats of mascara, the clumps of product carefully combed out with a mini lash brush—a technique she learned backstage at Tom Ford.

After covering up the scar on her otherwise full brows (a little present from her sister, she quips), she applies red lipstick to the apples of her cheeks for a natural flush and Glossier’s sheer brown matte stick for her mouth, which she partially blots away. But no night-out look is finished without a few dabs of highlighter on the cupid’s bow of the lip and a dot of lip gloss for a hint of sheen on her lids—a red carpet trick that’s for better photos, she says. Proof that the key to Parisian beauty is all in the details.