As You Are: A Valentine’s Day Look That Celebrates You

February 04, 2026

As You Are: A Valentine’s Day Look That Celebrates You

Valentine’s Day beauty doesn’t have to be about transformation — it’s about connection, confidence, and celebrating your features exactly as they are. Introducing As You Are, a romantic neutral makeup look designed to enhance what’s already yours through effortless application and thoughtful shade selection.

Centered around the iconic Laura Mercier Caviar Collection, this look proves that impact can be created with ease. Creamy, multi-use formulas glide on seamlessly, allowing you to build dimension, warmth, and glow — without overthinking technique. Whether you’re getting ready for a quiet night in or a candlelit dinner out, As You Are is timeless, wearable, and unmistakably personal.

Why the Caviar Collection Is the Heart of This Look

The Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye Colors are beloved for a reason. Their long-wearing, crease-resistant formula delivers rich pigment in one swipe — and their versatility goes far beyond the eyes. In this look, Caviar Sticks are used to define, contour, highlight, and sculpt, creating cohesion across the face with minimal products.

This Valentine’s Day makeup look features:

  • 3 shades on the eyes (plus liner and mascara)
  • 3 lip products
  • Multi-use techniques that enhance your natural features
  • Custom shade guidance for fair, medium, and deep skin tones

As You Are: Step-by-Step Application

Step #1: Create a Soft, Romantic Base on the Eyes

Begin with a luminous wash of color to set the tone for the entire look.

Choose one Caviar shade:

Our model is wearing RoseGold.

How to Apply:
Swipe directly across the lid and build until the color softly catches the light. Blend with your fingertips for a diffused effect, or use the All Over Eye Color Brush for a more polished finish. This step creates instant impact with minimal effort.

Step #2: Add Dimension — and Sculpt the Face

Next, introduce depth with a matte Caviar shade that works overtime.

Choose one Caviar Matte shade:

Our model is wearing Sepia.

How to Apply:
Apply through the crease and outer corner of the eye, blending softly with the Crease Brush. If needed, lightly define the lower lash line.

Then, use the same shade to subtly contour:

  • Sweep along the lower cheekbone, blending upward
  • Lightly define the sides of the nose
  • Trace the outer lip line for natural dimension

This technique ties the entire look together while keeping it effortless and modern.

Step #3: Highlight with a Soft, Romantic Glow

A touch of shimmer adds brightness exactly where you want it.

Choose one Caviar Shimmer shade:

Our model is wearing Wild Rose.

How to Apply:
Tap onto the inner corners and brow bone. For a subtle, editorial effect, apply lightly along the inner waterline.

Extend the glow beyond the eyes by adding this same shade to:

  • High points of the cheeks
  • Bridge of the nose
  • Cupid’s bow

Step #4: Define the Eyes

Complete the eye look with soft definition.

Products:

Our model is wearing Tuxdeo.

How to Apply:
Apply liner close to the lash line and gently smudge with a Smudge Brush to suit your eye shape. Curl lashes, then build mascara with focus on the outer corners for a lifted effect.

Caviar Lips: Soft, Sculpted, and Kissable

Step #5: Define with Lip Liner

Choose a your-lips-but-better shade to softly shape and enhance.

Caviar Lip Liner Shades:

Our model is wearing Elegant Blush.

How to Apply:
Use feather-light strokes to shape and fill the lips. The liner should blur seamlessly into the natural lip contour — no harsh lines.

Step #6: Add Color — and a Natural Flush

Select a healthy pink-brown lip shade that complements your skin tone.

Caviar Lipstick

Our model is wearing Le Marais.

How to Apply:
Swipe directly from the bullet onto lips. Then, tap a small amount onto the cheeks for a soft flush that mirrors the lips, creating harmony across the face.

Step #7: Finish with Gloss

Add dimension and comfort with a touch of shine.

Gloss Shades:

Our model is wearing Melted Sugar.

How to Apply:
Swipe on with the doe-foot applicator, focusing on the center of the lips for a fuller effect.

Step #8: Lock In the Look

Set everything while maintaining a natural finish.

Products:

How to Apply:
Mist setting spray evenly over the face. Once set, lightly press Ultra-Blur powder into key areas — beside the nose, forehead, and chin — using a Velour Puff or Secret Brightening Brush.

The Beauty of As You Are

This Valentine’s Day makeup look is about enhancing, not masking. With romantic neutrals tailored to your skin tone and versatile Caviar textures that move effortlessly from eyes to face to lips, As You Are is proof that confidence comes from ease — and beauty comes from authenticity.

Because the most captivating version of you is the one that already exists. 💕

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