WATCH: In The Chair with Violette

Violette is the ultimate French girl. After years working for some of the biggest makeup brands around, she decided her passion project was bringing quintessential Parisian beauty to the world in the form of VIOLETTE_FR.

Here, Violette joins MECCA In The Chair at Fred's Bar in Cremorne, Melbourne (a champagne and oyster dispensary one could easily confuse with a pocket of Paris). Watch as she chats about her career highlights, the French beauty ethos and her dream dinner party guests (involving an eclectic mix of Yves Klein, Melinda Gates and Beethoven, among others). All this while effortlessly applying her signature ‘French kiss’ lip... Hit play!