Romantic Makeup Looks

How to do soft, romantic makeup

If you’re a hopeless (or is it hopeful?) romantic, your makeup ought to look the part. Candlelit dinners by the fire, moonlit strolls on the beach and first dates all call for soft, romantic makeup. Here's how to do your makeup for an unabashedly romantic setting or try on romantic makeup in our virtual makeup studio.

To create the lit-from-within glow possessed by all romantics in the movies (especially Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts), create a dewy face with a sheer foundation, applied with a foundation brush and blended with a sponge. Go light on the concealer around the eyes, as it tends to settle into fine lines and give the skin a crinkled look. Looking youthful is your goal.

For romantic-looking skin, apply a shimmery liquid highlighter to the temples, brow bone and down the center of the nose (this will reflect light and create a flawless-looking complexion). Baby pink blush is a must and should be applied, and blended, generously to the apples of the cheeks.

Skip eyeliner and rely on colored mascara to bring out your eyes, the windows to a romantic’s soul. Remember that s bit of loose shimmer looks romantic, while loose glitter looks tacky. Think of loose shimmer as fairy dust and apply it to the lids, temples and even on top of lip gloss to look ethereal. --Stephanie Simons

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