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" Thank heaven for 48-year-old French girls like Arielle Dombasle. Without them, what would generations of grown-up Frenchmen do? The ultimate international gamine in a series of &amp;#039;80s movies directed by Eric Rohmer (Pauline at the Beach is particularly worth renting), Dombasle has evolved into a chanteuse in the breathy Marilyn Monroe tradition. Also like MM, who was briefly married to playwright Arthur Miller, Dombasle&amp;#039;s spouse is an intellectual, the Byronic Bernard-Henri L\u00E9vy, who is consistently called a &amp;quot;rock-star philosophe&amp;quot; because of his style and sex appeal. Dombasle wastes no time in telling us that &amp;quot;BHL,&amp;quot; as he is known, is her beauty secret: &amp;quot;When you&amp;#039;re in love, it shows. If you&amp;#039;re a lonesome little chicken, that shows, too.&amp;quot; Not long ago, when Dombasle was in town for her New York debut at Manhattan&amp;#039;s Supper Club, we went backstage after she performed a series of her favorite international standards to a packed house. Flushed but still flawless, she talked about the makeup that is such an essential part of her life onstage, and joked that she had reserved a special front-row seat for her beloved hairdresser, the U.S.-based Frenchman Julien Farel. &amp;quot;Funny that I come all the way here to get my hair cut by a Frenchman. I wish I could take him everywhere with me-Liz Taylor does that. But that would be too coquettish, don&amp;#039;t you think?&amp;quot; 1. DRUGSTORE MINTS: &amp;quot;Ahhh, always mini mints-fresh breath is essential! It doesn&amp;#039;t matter what brand-I think I got these inParis.&amp;quot; 2. HER OWN FRAGRANCE BLEND:  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a concoction I&amp;#039;ve worn for years: Clinique Aromatics Elixir plus a few drops of white musk oil (I add them to the perfume bottle). A cab driver in Washington, DC, told me about the oil-you can only find it in obscure little drugstores.&amp;quot; 3. LA PRAIRIE SKIN CAVIAR AND 30+ SUNSCREEN:  &amp;quot;I love La Prairie&amp;#039;s products because they&amp;#039;re scientifically sound. Wouldn&amp;#039;t it be wonderful if, in the future, we could deal with all lines and wrinkles with good skincare instead of plastic surgery? I have never seen a face-lift I liked.&amp;quot;  4. LANC\u00D4ME JUICY WEAR LIPSTICK IN LILAC KISS:  &amp;quot;The only lipstick that truly withstands kissing!&amp;quot;  5. LANC\u00D4ME JUICY WEAR TOPCOAT:  &amp;quot;Some put this on top of lipstick to gloss it up; I dab it on my cheeks for a little shine.&amp;quot;  6. NUTS, BISCUITS, AND CHEESE:  &amp;quot;People are surprised by how much of this I eat-but if you don&amp;#039;t eat meat for 20 years, you can pretty much digest anything and not gain weight.&amp;quot;  7. CHANEL PROFESSIONAL FINISH CONCEALER IN LIGHT:  &amp;quot;The only makeup I wear during the day is concealer. It&amp;#039;s a necessity, as I&amp;#039;m an early bird who has to perform late into the night.&amp;quot;  8. NARS ICEBERG EYELINER:  &amp;quot;I apply it to the inside rim of my lower eyelids to brighten the whites of my eyes.&amp;quot;  9. MAC LIPSTICK IN CYBER:  &amp;quot;For my New York concerts, I do my own makeup. I choose to focus on my lips and keep the eyes simple-playing up both is too much. This color was made for the spotlight!&amp;quot;  10. JOE BLASCO CREME FOUNDATION IN GOLDEN OLIVE:  &amp;quot;A movie makeup artist introduced me to it. It&amp;#039;s incredible- it literally brings light to your whole face.&amp;quot;  11. CHANEL BLACK BROWN MASCARA:  &amp;quot;What I wear offstage. My onstage jet-black on my pale-blue eyes can appear overdone.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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