Lexique pour la beauté
On this page you’ll find an extensive list of French beauty vocabulary. This list includes basic terms for makeup and cosmetics items found in the beauty salon as well as useful verbs.
Note that the grammatical structure, ‘se faire + verb in the infinitive form‘ means to have somebody do something for you or ‘to get + verb’. For example ‘se maquiller‘ means to put on make-up while ‘se faire maquiller‘ means to get made up.
Beauty salon vocabulary
- anti-wrinkle antirides
- beauty salon un salon de beauté
- beauty treatments les soins de beauté
- blush le fard à joues
- brush le pinceau
- cleanser le démaquillant
- complexion le teint
- concealer le correcteur
- cotton balls les boules de coton
- dark foncé
- dry sec
- eau de toilette l’eau de toilette eau de toilette
- eye shadow le fard à paupières eye shadow
- eyebrow brush la brosse à sourcils
- eyebrow pencil le crayon à sourcils
- eyeliner l’eye-liner
- face pack le masque de beauté
- facial le soin du visage
- foundation le fond de teint
- hair dye le teinture de cheveux
- hypoallergenic hypoallergénique hypoallergenic
- lip brush le pinceau à lèvres
- lip gloss le brillant à lèvres
- lip liner le crayon à lèvres
- lipstick le rouge à lèvres
- make-up le maquillage
- manicure la manicure
- mascara le mascara
- mirror le miroir
- moisturizer la crème hydratante
- nail clipper le coupe-ongles
- nail file la lime à ongles
- nail polish remover le dissolvant
- nail scissors les ciseaux à ongles
- pedicure la pédicure
- perfume le parfum
- powder la poudre face
- powder puff la houppette
- self-tanning cream l’autobronzage
- sensitive sensible
- shade le ton
- sunbed / tanning bed le lit UV
- tan le bronzage
- toiletries les accessoires de toilette
- toner le tonique
- tweezers la pince à épiler
- varnish / polish le vernis à ongles
- wax l’épilation
Useful verbs
- to exfoliate exfolier
- to put on makeoup se maquiller
- to put on lipstick se mettre du rouge à lèvres
- to put on foundation se mettre de fond de teint
- to have a nice complexion avoir une bonne mine
- to put on eyeshadow se faire les yeux avec du fard à paupières
- to put on mascara se faire du mascara
- to shave your legs se raser les jambes
- to trim your eyebrows se tailler les sourcils
- to get a wax se faire épiler
- to have hair removed se fair enlever les poils
- to get a face mask se faire un masque
- to get a body / face mask se faire faire un massage du corps / du visage
- to get a manicure and pedicure se faire faire les mains et les pieds
- to get made up se faire maquiller
- to get your nails cleaned se faire nettoyer les ongles
- to get nail polish put on se faire mettre un vernis de couleur
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