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cerisep0urrie · 5 months

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skin care and makeup in french

aka how to have your own vogue beauty secrets moment en français 🧼

(doing this mainly for myself and a very niche audience)

face - le visage, la figure

skin - la peau

skin care - soin visage

eyes - les yeux

lips - les lèvres

cheeks - les joues

eyebrows - les sourcils

eyelashes - les cils

water - l’eau

cleanser - le nettoyant

makeup remover - le démaquillant

toner - le tonique, la lotion tonique

serum - le sérum

face oil - l’huile

lip balm - le baume à lèvres

moisturizer - la crème, la crème hydratante

exfoliant - l’exfoliante

massage - le massage

face mask - le masque

foundation - fond de teint

concealer - l’anti-cerne, l’anti-tache

powder - la poudre

bronzer - la poudre de soleil

highlighter - l’highlighter, l’illuminateur

lipstick - le rouge à lèvres

lipgloss - le brillant à lèvres, le gloss (à lèvres)

eye shadow - le fard à paupière

mascara - le mascara

eyebrow pencil - le crayon à sourcil

eyebrow gel - le gel à sourcil

makeup brush - le pinceau de maquillage

eye liner - l’eye-liner, l’eye-liner liquide

blush - le blush, le fard à joues

to put on makeup - se maquiller

to wash - se laver

to take off makeup - se démaquiller

to do skincare routine - faire des soins de la peau

to massage- masser

to apply - appliquer

#vogue #vogue paris #vogue beauty #french culture #translation #language #lingblr #translator #study french #frenchblr #francais #france #foreign languages #french langblr #langblr #learning french #french language

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just-french-me-up · 7 days

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International news reporting on the coming 2024 Paris Olympics : wow amazing venues, events held at Versailles, so fresh, so sophisticated, hon hon oui oui

French news reporting on the coming 2024 Paris Olympics : this shitshow will be the biggest travesty the world has ever seen and we cant wait, let us be Nero playing the violin as Paris burns

#france #french culture #french stuff #i just saw NBC report on it and I was like?????????#oh baby youve got a BIG storm coming

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frenchnewwaves · 7 months

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Léa Seydoux

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the-sp0tless-mind · 10 months

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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La laideur est supérieure à la beauté en ce sens qu’elle dure.

- Serg Gainsbourg

#gainsbourg #serg gainsbourg #quote #birki #jane birkin #beauty #ugly #ugliness #durability #wit #french #singer #comopser #culture #french culture

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firespirited · 9 months

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I can't believe I'm the one to have to say this as I'm not keen on cabaret culture but Le Crazy Horse is not some random gentleman's club or nudie bar, but a prestigious Cirque du Soleil style dance troupe. The dancers are prima ballerina-like athletes who happen to perform near nude. We're talking a-cups and a full 8 pack of abs to even get an audition. It's considered an honour to perform there, quite a few cross over from ballet.

I happen to believe that strippers and exotic dancers are skilled performers who do a physically taxing and emotionally intelligent job so I consider some of the Atlanta strip clubs on the same professional level as a Vegas revue.

But seeing the parisian Crazy Horse described as similar to the red light district Amsterdam Bananenbar feels iffy given the cultural cachet given to getting to perform there as a musician, magician or dancer. It's regularly sponsored by Louboutin and very expensive lingerie brands. I don't mean to insult the Bananenbar ladies either because woof that must take quite some skill but it's not going on bold on your dancers résumé in the same way.

Inviting people to Bananenbar is a bachelorette party/hen night kind of vibe, inviting someone to Le Crazy Horse is considered classy and fancy, especially if you're into dance. I imagine Bananenbar ladies make more in tips but Crazy Horse ladies (it is not a well paid gig at 30k a year) get to cash in on prestige for future jobs.

#saf #Lizzo #Le Crazy Horse #Burlesque #Cabaret #French culture #Beyoncé's partition was filmed there following an existing choreography

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stingrayextraordinaire · 9 months

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Strawberry Shortcake Moodboards // Crepes Suzette

La beauté commence au moment où vous décidez d’être vous-même.

#crepes suzette #strawberry shortcake #strawberry shortcake moodboards #characters #character moodboards #moodboards #aesthetics #my moodboards #my edits #fashion #french culture #french fashion #fashion design #french

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logogreffe · 1 year

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French keyboard : AZERTY

This is what a basic French keyboard looks like :

As you can see, we have keys for é, è, ç, à. Like most keyboards, if you want to write a letter in uppercase you have to press SHIFT (MAJ in French) + the letter. BUT if you want to write a "ç" in uppercase, you cannot press MAJ + ç because... this is how you write "9" (for most French keyboards and windows users). Same goes with é, è and à. This is where my poll comes in : I've asked the French speakers of Tumblr how they type É , È, À and Ç on their computer.

Translation : How do you type À, É, È, Ç on your computer (when the corrector doesn't work) Option 1 : I know the shortcuts Option 2 : I type " E uppercase grave accent" on google and I copy/paste it. ("Ordi" is the shortened version of the word "Ordinateur") Result : 56% don't know the shortcuts and/or find it easier to use copy/paste and google. Note 1 : Here are some of the shortcuts mentionned in the tags if you want to try them out (I'm team copy/paste so I won't be using them) -> Set n°1 of Shortcuts :

-> Set n°2 of Shortcuts :

Tranlastion : #So you're telling me that Alt+020X was...a waste of time...? #My honnor as an ex-computer specialist...gone {The shortcuts Alt + 020X are the following : À : alt +0192, É : alt + 0201, È : alt +0200} Note 2 : The issue seems to be nonexistent for people using an international keyboard, a MAC, or Linux. Note 3 : Some people remarked that they had learned in school that you're not supposed to put accents on uppercase letter in French.

And they were right ! It used to be a rule ! But our dear Académie Française seems to have changed its mind and it's now recommended ! Source : X « En français, l’accent a pleine valeur orthographique. Son absence ralentit la lecture, fait hésiter sur la prononciation, et peut même induire en erreur. » L’oublier, si l’on suit cette logique, constitue une faute d’orthographe !" // "In French, the accent has full orthographic value. Its absence slows down reading, makes one hesitate about pronunciation, and can even mislead." Forgetting it, if we follow this logic, constitutes a spelling error! In the article, they also give the following example : "UN INTERNE TUE" This sentence without any accent can be read as " Un interne tue " // An intern kills " Un interne tué " // An intern killed " Un interné tue " // A person interned into a psychiatric facility kills " Un interné tué " // A person interned into a psychiatric facility killed You see this issue... Final Note : I'll definitively keep using copy/paste because it's easier, but it was interesting to see how other people do it ! Merci à tous les gens qui ont voté / commenté / tagué / reblogué mon sondage ! Bonus : Funny Tags/Comment

Translation : Third option : I don't give a shit

Translation : #I don't put them [the accents] #My laziness is more powerful than my love for French grammar rules #(might be a red flag lol) My personal favorite :

Translation : But still, France produces thousands of AZERTY keyboards but can't get a layout that allows you to make your accents the way you want easily ? It's not serious, did you try to talk about it to a minister or they are all in jail ?

#Frenchblr #french culture #upthebaguette #whatthefrance

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the-cricket-chirps · 2 months

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Hermann-Paul (Hermann René Georges Paul)

La belle juive fait ses courses

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bingewatchintilldawn · 10 months

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As a bilingual person, I realised that my handwriting is terrible in my native language AND second language...

Soooo I got curious

!!Please reblog for more answers!!

#poll series #my curiosity must be answered #/pa #languages #bilingual #trilingual #multilingual #polygot #guys idk just *insert every culture here*#English culture #French culture #German culture #Arabic culture #african culture #Indian culture #east asain culture #japanese culture #korean culture #Singaporean culture

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smhalltheurlsaretaken · 2 years

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The 2000s were the golden age of French fantasy/fairytale animated films (think Prince of Egypt on a lower budget) and people are sitting on it and lamenting that Disney and Amazon can't do diversity well. (No shit). Spoilers in the links.

Kirikou et la Sorcière (Kirikou and the Sorceress), 1998 + its two sequels: inspired by West African storytelling and folktales, Kirikou is a young boy who can walk and talk since the womb and helps his people defeat the evil witch who has taken away all the men of the village. The sequels are more episodic tales focused on smaller issues Kirikou helps resolve with his ingenuity. It's got some banging songs by Senegalese star Youssou N'Dour, an almost exclusively pan-African voice cast (in the original French dub at least), and it explores some pretty dark issues without pulling any punches while managing to stay light-hearted. (It also has a lot of non-sexual nudity, which might be disconcerting if you're not expecting it.)

La Reine Soleil (The Sun Queen), 2007: essentially a Prince of Egypt rip-off but focused on Egyptian history and religion instead. It follows Ahkenaten and Nefertiti's daughter Ahkesa and her betrothed Prince Tuthankaten. The animation's not the greatest but it has some pretty impressive visuals here and there (although for the life of me I can't figure out why the royals have got otherworldly blue eyes). It's not as great as the others on the list but it's got the right vibes.

Azur et Asmar (Azur and Asmar: The Princes' Quest), 2006: by the same director as Kirikou. Azur is a rich young boy raised by an Arab nursemaid together with her young son Asmar. The three of them are separated, but an adult Azur eventually crosses the sea on a quest to find the Djinn fairy, and the two not-quite-brothers find themselves at odds. The early 3D animation is pretty funky but the backgrounds and the Morrocan architecture especially can be incredibly beautiful and detailed, and a lot of the movie is in classical Arabic (spoken by native speakers).

Les Enfants de la Pluie (The Rain Children), 2003: some very beautifully animated heroic fantasy with very nice worldbuilding and lore. It's not directly inspired by any one culture or fairytale but it's pretty far from the standard European fantasy worldbuilding that's been done to death. All the characters are non-human, with some big Atlantis vibes for the Hydross and a cool desert aesthetic for the Pyross. Sweet and short.

Princes et Princesses (Princes and Princesses), 1989, compiled in 2000: also by the guy who made Kirikou and Azur and Asmar. It's six short tales in handcrafted paper silhouette animation (inspired by Chinese-shadow puppetry), with three European-style fairy tales with some pretty imaginative visuals, and other tales from Japan, Egypt and even a sci-fi story 'from the year 3000'. As many female characters as male ones, and the female characters are all pretty awesome. The music can get hauntingly beautiful.

If you can get your hands on these, I definitely recommend giving them all a try!

#kirikou #kirikou et la sorcière #kirikou and the sorceress #michel ocelot #youssou ndour #princes et princesses #princes and princesses #azur and asmar #the princes' quest #azur et asmar #french animation #french culture #diversity #the sun queen #the rain children #ancient egypt #african culture #arab culture

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just-french-me-up · 2 years

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every french speaker's pet peeve : having a character introduced as French, like properly 100% born and raised French, and the closest the actor performing has ever been to France, French culture or the French language is Paris, Texas

#french #french culture #french stuff #LIKE #CALL IT PRETENCIOUS #but that shit is J-A-R-R-I-N-G #like you get all excited #and then the most honhon baguette accent comes up #OR #they will hire québécois actors who keep their québécois accent #and i have nothing but love for my tabernacle bretherens but then???? say they're french canadian then??????#the lack of care i swear #like in cap winter soldier the cold open villain is supposed to be french #and he comes on screen #and it's the most CALISSE TABERNACLE VEUX TU DONT DU COMBAT i'm like!!!!!! SCREAMIN

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frenchnewwaves · 1 year

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marie antoinette (2006)

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naliya · 1 year

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If I hear one more foreigner talk about French retirement age and about how "in their country it's 67/70/94! French people are so entitled / lazy!" I'm going to lose it.

Full offense but if you haven't read the rapport du COR in full, doesn't know shit about the French social system, are not aware of French workers productivity, doesn't know what "minimum age" means (hint most people do not retire at 62), have no idea as to why this measure is punishing the poorest first and foremost, or even simply can't read French at all, then you need to shut the fuck up for once.

And just because you got fucked doesn't mean we should bend over too (sorry for the language but the imagery is too perfect).

And none of that even goes into how this reform is currently being force-fed to us by a gouvernement who bypassed an elected parliament without even letting them debate as long as they should have, to the point where a vote wasn't even allowed to take place. Even if you are in full agreement because you believe French people should have it as bad as you because everything should be levelled down to the lowest standard of living, then if you also still believe in democracy somehow you should still agree that this is not the way to go about it.

#french stuffs #french culture #france #i need to spend less time on reddit and twitter #i already dont spend much time there but i still need to cut it down in half #im so done #ah le 49.3

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blackswaneuroparedux · 11 months

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I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

- Erik Satie

To his contemporaries and peers Erik Satie was something of an enigma. Just a few of his quirks included claiming he only ate white foods, carrying a hammer wherever he went, founding his own religion, eating 150 oysters in one sitting, and writing a piece with the instruction to repeat 840 times! As a composer, Satie paved the way for the avant-garde in music and became a very influential figure in the classical music of the 20th century whose works still sound fresh today.

Born into a poor and difficult childhood in the Normandy harbour town of Honfleur on 17 May 1866, Satie would always be an outsider. The Paris Conservatoire to which he was enrolled by his stepmother, herself a pianist, became for him “a sort of local penitentiary” during his teens; he left with no qualifications and a reputation for being lazy. He signed up for military service in 1886 and dropped out within the same year. Immersing himself in the bohemian life of Montmartre, he became linked with the popular music scene and eked out a living as an accompanist, playing at the Chat Noir cabaret. Always on the periphery, and forever out of money, he later downgraded from the cramped room in which he lived to the less fashionable Parisian suburb of Arcueil, where he holed up in isolation and squalor – no visitors set foot in the room during the near-30 years he lived there.

Much has been made of the eccentricities of this flâneur, who was always seen in a grey velvet suit, and yet underlying Satie’s music is his serious desire to create something new. You can hear it in his popular piano pieces: the haunting scales and rhythms of the Trois Gnossiennes written under the spell of Romanian folk music, and the meditative world of Gymnopédies, where, as in a cubist painting, motifs are “seen” from all sides. At a time when French composers were looking to escape the shadows of Wagner’s epic Romanticism, the French composer’s stripped-back mechanical sound, inspired by the humble barrel organ, offered a radically simple approach.

Satie preferred originality to the mundane. The composer of the famous Gymnopedies, could never be accused of having an uninteresting personality. For one, his outgoing fashion statements always caused a stir. During his Montmartre years, he had 12 identical velvet corduroy suits hanging in his wardrobe, which earned him the nickname ‘The Velvet Gentleman’, and in his socialist years, he donned a bowler hat and carried an umbrella.

Debussy helped to draw public attention to Satie, orchestrating two of his Gymnopédies, yet Satie had to wait until much later in life to attain celebrity status. While still earning a living writing salon dances and popular cabaret songs, and after suffering a creative crisis, he enrolled himself at the Schola Cantorum in Paris at the age of 39. Rather than finding him validation, his studies seem to have fuelled his hatred of convention - it’s with more than a hint of bitterness that he claims to put “everything I know about Boredom” into the Bach chorale of his masterful Sports et Divertissements piano pieces. But notoriety led to a succès de scandale and when it came it came with a bang in Parade, his surreal, one-act circus ballet for Diaghilev. Into the orchestral score, which featured jazz and cabaret tunes, were thrown typewriters, sirens and a pistol - just the kind of noises a wartime audience would normally pay not to hear. With its rigid cubist costumes by Picasso - which restricted Massine’s choreography - and a promotional push from Cocteau, it was provocative enough to secure Satie’s position at the vanguard of modernism.

Yet Satie was continually frustrated in his attempts to be accepted as an artist in high society France - his failure to establish himself at the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts, to which Debussy had won a scholarship, only compounded his resentment. Was this treatment by the cultural elite fair? Certainly his determination to antagonise his audience in his late ballets did little to endear him to the critics, but the fierce criticism he received in Paris was also a sign of things to come. Pierre Boulez would later poke fun at Satie’s lack of craft, while composer Jean Barraqué - another proponent of 12-tone music - would deride Satie as “an accomplished musical illiterate … who found that his friendship with Debussy was an unhoped-for opportunity to loiter in the corridors of history”.

Satie is perhaps, to this day, the most audacious and original composer when it comes to naming his works e.g. Gnossiennes and Gymnopédies. With Satie you will not see symphonies, concertos or opus numbers. Satie possessed a wicked sense of humour and his mockery, both of himself and others, became an inspiration for many of his irony-tinged works. His Sonatine bureaucratique is a spoof of Muzio Clementi’s Sonatina Op. 36 and contained many witticisms in the score. For example, he writes Vivache (vache being French for cow) instead of the original Italian tempo marking Vivace.

Whether in the collage-like miniature piano parodies he wrote during the World War I, his creation of a theatre format that has endured over the years, or in his collaboration with Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso y Sergei Diaghilev, there is a liveliness of imagination and a hunger for innovation that made Erik Satie In the torch bearer of the vanguard in his work. Satie would influence so many so strongly that years later some of his closest friends became radical artists, for example. ManRay, the sculptor Constantin Brâncusi, and Marcel Duchamp, or a much younger group of Paris-based composers like Les Six.

Satie, a known drinker of absinthe, and apparently every other alcohol available, died of cirrhosis at the age of 59 in Arcueil, France in July 1925. But his compositions, especially those deceptively simple-sounding solo piano works, find life today through recitals, concerts, and great movie scores. Although he died in poverty with little success to his name, today Erik Satie is acknowledged as a founder of 20th-century modernism, who changed the face of music.

Personally I do find Satie's music enriching, But I also find that his calculated wackiness is culturally apt. Pieces like ‘3 Pieces in the Shape of a Pear’, ‘Flabby Preludes for a Dog’ and ‘Desiccated Embryos’ rewardingly deflate Wagnerism's excesses in a characteristically French way.

#satie #erik satie #quote #music #classical music #composer #pianist #debussy #modernism #paris #french #france #arts #culture #french culture #innovation #artist #life

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mask131 · 8 days

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Daily reminder that the legend of Sweeney Todd (I am talking about the 19th century fiction, long before any movie or Broadway musical) is actually a British modern reinvention of an older "urban legend" - a 17th century French legend about the murderous barber and cannibalistic baker (male this time) of the rue des Marmousets, a legend that stood strong and famous until the 19th century.

#sweeney todd #french culture #french history #french things #urban legend #cannibalism

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