Wear Your Heart on Your Cheek: Valentine’s Day Makeup Looks
The artist formerly known as Marina and the Diamonds once said that you should wear your heart on your cheek, but never on your sleeve. Valentine’s Day offers the perfect opportunity to take the pop star at her word and indulge in your coquettish side. Below are some ideas for V-Day-inspired makeup looks for the single, the taken, and those caught somewhere in between.
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This simple lip look requires only two products: clear lip gloss reminiscent of the sort that teenage girls in the early 2000s piled onto their lips every morning before school (think Lip Smackers or Juicy Tubes) and heart shapes to stick to your lips. You’ll leave a little love with every kiss you give on Valentine’s Day. If you’re lucky, you might end the day with no tiny hearts left to lose.
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I like to think of heart-shaped freckles across the nose and cheeks as the token of a visit from the fairy of St. Valentine’s Day after she has showered me in love-dust. However, since there is no magical mascot for the holiday of love, these heart freckles will have to be drawn on, one by one. To do that, you can use various products, ranging from face paint makeup to liquid eyeshadow. From afar, the hearts might not look like much more than natural freckles, but once you get up close and personal (as the lovestruck are wont to do on Valentine’s Day), they become something more. To complement the various shades of pink dotting your face, add some flirty pink eyeshadow on your eyelids.
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The next look is sweeter than the candy hearts that it takes inspiration from. Easy as can be, the pastel hearts begin with a base of white pencil eyeliner and are then layered with a candy-colored eyeshadow. The subtle additions of flicks of black eyeliner on the bottom lashes and white eyeliner on the eye’s waterline make the hearts pop and give the look a vintage warmth. To really play up the conversation heart concept, you might consider adding a ‘Be Mine’ or ‘Call Me’ in small black lettering atop the largest heart. All methods of flirting are not only acceptable but encouraged on Valentine’s Day.
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When you feel that a bold red lip is just not enough, or that heaps of rosy blush across your cheeks and the bridge of your nose do not properly communicate the intensity of your passionate affection, up the ante with blazing red eyeshadow. You won’t just be glowing—you’ll be smoldering, which is all one can hope for on Valentine’s Day.
The oft-hated lovey-dovey holiday that comes every February 14th seems to me the perfect day to express yourself through makeup. It is all about taking your emotions and externalizing them. When you cannot put your feelings into words, what better way to express them than to turn to art, to images and colors and shapes? Take a brush, some eyeliner, and a tube of lipstick and let your love be written all over your face this Valentine’s Day.
Strike Out,
Writer: Roxy Rico
Editor: Cali Robins
Graphics: Tara White
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