When Valentine’s Day rolls around, it can be tough to think outside the box if you don’t want to adhere to the prescribed mandate of flowers and chocolate, hurriedly purchased from a supermarket chain.
Fortunately, Wallpaper* is an expert on thoughtful, design-led gifting for the aesthete in your life, whether that be a partner, friend, or even yourself. And, if whoever you’re planning to treat this Friday 14 February is a beauty-obsessive, then look no further than our selection of products in the most amorous of shades: red.
Below, find five suggestions to fulfil or inspire your last-minute Valentine’s Day shopping needs, from lipstick and blush to perfume and nail polish, all in bold, passionate and powerful hues of ruby, burgundy, berry and more.
Valentine’s Day: red beauty products to gift the aesthete in your life
A limited edition lipstick by Chanel
This limited edition version of Chanel’s iconic Rogue Allure Velvet lipstick has an iridescent quality, inspired by Coco Chanel’s famous pearls. Radiant, softly-pigmented and crucially, buildable, if luminous shade Sensuelle looks familiar, it’s because it was used in Chanel’s S/S 2025 Haute Couture show, in one of three beauty looks based around red lipsticks. To allow your Valentine to replicate them all, add a second Rouge Allure Velvet: Les Pearls lipstick in the colour Sophistiquée and a tube of 31 Le Rouge Matte lipstick in the shade Rouge Rencontre to your shopping bag.
A ruby-like bottle of Comme des Garçons perfume
On Tuesday (11 February 2025) Dover Street Market Paris re-issued the heart-shaped packaging from Comme des Garçons 2 Love Hurts, first launched in 2005. If you aren’t one of the lucky 120 to get their hands on this limited edition design this Valentine’s Day, Dover Street Market is also stocking Comme des Garçons fan favourite, Rouge, a jewel-like red bottle containing a blend of incense and vegetal roots, spicy pink peppercorns, Indonesian ginger, fresh beetroot and Egyptian Geranium leaves. Piquant, seductive and impossible to ignore.
A flushed cream blush by Westman Atelier
Westman Atelier’s blush stuck, in a romantic berry hue called Bichette, has a soft, creamy formula, creating a radiant flush on every skin tone. Packed with nourishing ingredients, such as jojoba seed oil and an ayurvedic oil blend, the formula also provides a boost of hydration. It can also be used on the lips and eyelids, should your Valentine desire. Plus, the weighty packaging, engraved with the Westman Atelier logo, snaps open and closed with a magnetic lid.
An (almost) burgundy nail polish by Hermès
With a high-shine formula providing a lacquered finish, Hermès’ nail polish has a fluid texture and a supple brush that achieves coverage in a single sweep. The shade Rouge H is one of the Maison’s signature colours, first created in 1925. An elegant dark red with a hint of brown verging on burgundy, this product is part of Hermès’s wider Valentine’s edit, which includes eye makeup, lipsticks and blushes.
A fiery glass flagon by Kindred Black
Kindred Black’s best-selling Gamine personal lubricant is light and unscented, enhancing pleasure without irritation. A seasonal Valentine’s edition of The Gamine comes alongside a beautifully-designed 45ml fiery red glass flagon, hand-blown by a master artisan in Illinois. The perfect addition to any bedside table.
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