New Girl Makeup Trends 2026

Few aesthetics sing a beautiful song as quietly as the beauty of the French girl. The bobs are almost choppy and fall around her face, her clay skin is free of heavy foundations, with rosy pink cheeks, cool glasses, bare lashes and a classic red lip. A dominant theme that ties French elegance together in a neat bow? A laissez-faire approach to cool self-care.

And while it’s no doubt fanciful, French girl beauty has proven to be cookie-cutter for nearly a decade. When Polish hairdresser Antoine Cierplikowski first cut the garçone bob on Coco Chanel in the 1920s, the gold standard for French beauty was set. And now, 100 years later, the house of Chanel is redefining the beauty of the French girl with the launch of its Rouge Noir cosmetics collection.