One only needs to turn to names like Jeanne Damas, Camille Rowe, and Inès de la Fressange to realise how effortlessly beautiful French women are.

(Image credit: Jeanne Damas)

These ladies have spent their lives perfecting the art of flawless, foundation-free beauty, and while it’s easy to resign it to the water they drink or genetics, we’d like to gently point out the fact that they also have the most sophisticated pharmacies in the world.