“If someone had only told me to get rid of the eye makeup sooner!” the late, great Jane Birkin once lamented to Vogue . Birkin was speaking of the Swinging ’60s, when she decamped from her native England and landed in France with exaggerated eye etchings, pastel shadows, and layers of lower-lash mascara —it was all very Mary Quant, very Twiggy, and not yet the full-formed Jane Birkin that would come to captivate the world.

Fast-forward to the following decade, when the gap-toothed gamine abandoned her heavy hand to embrace a more au naturel approach. As she later noted: “It was nice because then you looked like what you looked like in the morning.” It’s this effortless élan, now immortalized on countless Instagram feeds and Pinterest Boards, that has come to symbolize Birkin, defi

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