Ooh La La!:
French Women’s Secrets to Feeling Beautiful Every Day
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
The author of Bonjour, Happiness! offers a revealing foray into French femininity with beauty and style secrets from the women of Paris and beyond.
French women seem to have a special knack for life's most important things—food, love, raising children. And in matters of beauty and style, they appear to be at an unfair advantage. But the truth is that French women are not born more attractive than anyone else—and everything they know can be learned.
French women learn at a young age how to feel beautiful, confident, and sexy, inside and out. It's an allure that outlasts youth—in fact, some of France's most celebrated women are femmes d'un certain âge.
Growing up, Jamie Cat Callan had a French grand-mère to instruct her on style, grooming, and genuinely liking her reflection in the mirror. Now she shares that wisdom along with advice from other French women on fragrance, image consulting, makeup, and more.
“This charming foray into French femininity will make a perfect cadeau for any Francophile lady.” —Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As a young girl whiling away the summers with her French grandmother in Toulouse, Callan (Bonjour, Happiness!) spent many a late afternoon admiring a print of Guy Dessapt's Le Moulin Rouge. In this combination lifestyle guide and travelogue, Callan interviews French women and Francophile expats from Paris to Lille to Normandy on topics like beauty, fashion, and feminine hygiene in an effort to divine the wellspring of a French woman's je ne sais quoi, or her "ooh la la," as Callan puts it. A "charisma expert" weighs in on displaying confidence, a masseuse explains the French approach to fitness (they "don't like to get sweaty in groups"), and Callan's friend Sylvia describes her government-funded, postpartum vaginal rejuvenation therapy. The author also muses on her favorite iconic fashions and their histories and the French reverence for "femmes d'un certain ge," one of whom Madame Poupie Cadolle, the "Queen of Lingerie" cuts a particularly striking figure. This charming foray into French femininity will make a perfect cadeau for any Francophile lady.
