Get the look of love for Valentine’s Day (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Get the look of love for Valentine’s Day

8:57am Tuesday 7th February 2012 in Fashion & Beauty By Lisa Haynes

Whether you’re on the lookout for love or celebrating a long partnership, Valentine’s Day is all about feeling confident and sexy.

A glossy pout and spritz of a seductive scent can give you that warm and fuzzy glow in 60 seconds flat.

Caroline Barnes, Max Factor’s make-up artist, recommends a foolproof Valentine’s look of fresh dewy skin and defined lips.

“Your features are key flirting tools, so choose your most alluring and bring out your beauty,” she says.

Kissable Lips
Valentine’s Day poses a conundrum for lovestruck ladies – you want your lips to look irresistible, but they need to withstand potential kissing marathons.

Steer clear of the collagen look. If you want bigger lips, make them appear more voluptuous by rounding the top lip over the Cupid’s bow for a fuller effect – far sexier than just drawing over the lip line, according to Caroline.

And if you’re a girl who can’t survive without her lipgloss, keep the tone natural and play up your eyes instead.

Captivating Scent
If there’s one thing that will put him under your spell, it’s an alluring fragrance.

Your scent conquest shouldn’t begin and end with a spritz of perfume. Make the effort to layer your scents with scented bath soak and fragranced moisturisers to really pack a punch.

But the vital extra ingredient is the wearer, according to John Stephen, master perfumer of The Cotswold Perfumery. “A woman needs to harmonise her body smell with the fragrance that she wears,” he says.

“Delicate, young, sweet skin needs a light floral fragrance, and key ingredients to look out for include rose, jasmine, lily and narcissus. A confident, mature woman should wear something more powerful with notes like musk, prune and vanilla.”

Flushed Cheeks
Look away now if you’re a little prudish. Valentine’s night is the time to ditch the bronzer and replicate a bedroom ‘after-glow’.

Think natural, advises make-up maestro Daniel Sandler. “Add a little colour to your cheeks, in a shade you would naturally flush for a natural-looking glow – this is ultra-sexy and highly attractive to a man’s basic instinct.”

“I always favour a fluid or cream blush for a barely-there finish,” Sandler says. “You can really work colour into the cheeks with the warmth of your fingertips to the areas in which you would naturally gain colour. Keep the colour central and well blended for a ‘fresh-from-the-cold’ finish.”