Makeup is a transformative art that can either enhance or dull your beauty and your entire look as well. Good makeup is like soft skills; people don’t pay too much attention to it until you mess up; it soon becomes the reason for havoc.
Makeup plays an important role in whatever fashion you want to embrace and without good makeup, your fashion is left unnoticed. It doesn’t matter if you like makeup or not; a big part of looking good starts with your face and hair. And if you’re a complete beginner, you just need to get the makeup basics right, and for that, only a few essential makeup products are needed: mascara, lip liner, eyeshadow, blush, eyeliner, an eyebrow kit, and a lipstick. There are a few makeup products that, if you use them, can further enhance your look, i.e., highlighter, concealer, and contour.
For Valentine’s Day, doing light to medium makeup is recommended but no matter what makeup you choose to do, your skin shouldn’t look cakey. That’s the difference between good and bad makeup. Make sure your skin looks glowy and healthy and always remember to dab the excess product off for a natural-looking makeup look.
These easy makeup ideas for Valentine’s Day 2024 are curated as per the latest beauty and fashion trends.
1. Shades Of Chocolate
This makeup look is a trendy look for winter. It focuses on chocolate shades and while everyone can flaunt this makeup look, it looks best on dusky skin tone. If you have a lighter skin, go for a lighter brown shade that compliment your skin tone.
All you need for this makeup look: A chocolate brown lipstick, foundation or BB cream, blush, eye shadow, mascara, eyeliner and kajal, contour, eyebrow kit.
Fashion Tip: Wearing a solid outfit will give less distractions and complement this makeup look much better.
2. Glossy Makeup
Glossy makeup looks are quite trendy since they give a glossy glam look and focus more on the eye makeup than the lips, which gives you an overall clean, chic look. Women of all skin tones can do this makeup look, which is effortless and easy to do.
All you need for this look: A lip gloss, mascara, blush, foundation or BB cream, nude eyeshadow, and eyebrow pencil.
Fashion Tip: You can wear floral, sheer and even sequin styles with this makeup look. Honestly you can wear almost anything because it’s a light makeup that isn’t attention seeking and complements your outfits with grace and sophistication.
3. Glow makeup look
This makeup look is very easy to do and for those who are new to makeup but still want to look put together by highlighting their features, this makeup look is for you. It requires fewer makeup products as well such as highlighter, lip gloss, nude eyeshadow, mascara and blush. For base, you can go with a foundation, bb cream or just a moisturizer if you want a light base.
Fashion Tip: This makeup look looks best with solid or simple design outfits. Wearing light colours with this makeup look is the best choice for sophisticated and chic look.
4. The desi Kajal look
If you’re into bold makeup looks, this one’s for you. This is not only one of the easy makeup ideas for Valentine’s Day but also the most beautiful look on any Indian skin tone since kajal suits everybody. This makeup look focuses more on the eyes, making them prominent while giving your other facial features a clean finish. For this look, concealer is a must so that the kajal doesn’t make your undereye area look darker. Apart from that, you need a nude lipstick, blush, highlighter, eyebrow pencil, nude eyeshadow, and mascara to complete this makeup look.
Fashion Tip: While this desi makeup look is perfect with an Indian attire, you can also wear this look with western dresses.
5. Sweet flush
This is the most easy makeup ideas for Valentine’s Day to do and is perfect for teenagers or young adults since they are budget friendly and very trendy. This look simply accentuates your natural facial features and gives your cheeks a beautiful healthy glow with this sweet flush makeup look.
The must have makeup product for this look is blush, lots of it! Other than that you need a mascara, lip gloss or lip balm, Eyebrow pencil, nude eyeshadow and highlighter. It’s similar to “no makeup” makeup look which is pretty easy and effortless to do.
Fashion Tip: Wearing something cute with this makeup look is recommended since the makeup look itself is cute and extremely adorable. But avoid darker colours with this makeup look since it will take the attention off your face. Wearing light colour mini dress, sheath skirt or crop top will look best.
6. Siren Red Lips
Siren red lip makeup looks beautiful on warm skin tones and in fact it accentuates your gorgeous warm honey skin tone. This makeup looks best on every skin tone and exudes a playful romantic and sophisticated look. For this makeup look, all you need is siren red lipstick, shimmery gold eyeshadow, mascara, blush and highlighter.
Fashion Tip: You can easily rock this makeup look with red slip dress. Off-shoulder dress
7. Lavender hues
This makeup look is only recommended if you have enough time to learn or if you already do makeup. But for beginners, this makeup look can be a bit difficult to flaunt since it requires practice. However, if you want to create this makeup look, click here. For this look, you need lavender eyeshadow, eyebrow pencil, highlighter, nude lipstick, blush, mascara, kajal, and concealer.
Fashion Tip: Wear this makeup with a white outfit since it contrasts well with your lavender eye makeup and makes it stand out.
Apart from makeup, the best thing you can wear on Valentine’s Day is confidence, because it shines above everything. And even though men find confident women intimidating, they like the idea of spending their time with a confident woman who’s sure of herself. All the best for your date. It’s going to go well but even if it doesn’t for whatever reason, don’t sweat it. Just know he’s not the one and make space for the man who is.
One of the major mistakes women make in dating is that they don’t take control of their emotions. So after your date, ask yourself: did you like the guy or are you just interested in him because he is interested in you? This question is more important if you’re looking for a serious relationship. Also, shine in these easy makeup ideas for Valentine’s Day 2024. Good Luck!
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