We all are well-versed with the tradition of Valentine’s Day (observed on February 14th, every year). It's the celebration of love and lovers expressing affection with greetings and gifts. Similarly, Galentine’s Day, February 13th - is the cousin sister of Valentine’s Day that celebrates sisterhood, friendship, love, and the bond you share with your female friends.
Your confidante, partner-in-crime, and ultimate hype girl deserves all of the world's love and attention, and Galentine’s Day is the best day to celebrate this pure love and bond you share. So, go ahead and make her feel special by either planning a pajama party with your girl besties, hosting a lavish dinner with her favourite music playing in the background, or setting up a cozy place for a movie night, or simply talking your hearts out. You can also pamper her with gifts to show her how much she means to you. Wondering what to gift your Galentine? Leave that trouble to us! We have done the hard part, i.e., selecting fun and quirky Galentine’s Day gifts to spoil your girl gang! From multipurpose face makeup products, to alluring eye pencils to high-shine lipsticks, you will find them all below!
Galentine’s gift ideas for makeup lovers
Is your girl bestie a makeup enthusiast? If yes, this Galentine’s Day gift set would make her smile from ear to ear immediately. We have selected a wide range of trending face makeup, eye makeup, and lip makeup products especially for you to transform your mundane looks into something interesting.
• Face Tint -
Some of us can’t think of stepping outside without putting foundation. But when the scorching summer hits our skin, most of us look for lightweight makeup tools for office or day outings. Since summer is approaching, gift your female bestie a face tint as a Galentine’s Day gift. Optimised to deliver makeup + skincare benefits, face tints offer optimal sun protection, natural coverage, and even skin brightening advantages.
Our recommendation - Maybelline Fit Me Fresh Tint
• Compact Powder
Set your life and makeup with a compact powder. This Galentine’s Day gift can prove to be your makeup saviour with oil-control and sun protection benefits. The breathable formula of compact powder lets you achieve a flawless matte look and makes it suitable for daily use.
Our recommendation - Maybelline New York’s Fit Me Matte + Poreless Compact Powder
• Coloured Liquid Eyeliner
We promised you to provide deets on quirky Galentine’s Day Gift ideas. So, here we are! Bring colour into the otherwise black-and-white life of your workaholic bestie or make their flamboyant life more colourful with a set of coloured eyeliner. Go for water-proof and smudge-proof high-impact coloured eyeliner shades like golden, shades of teal green, and pink and help her create graphic eyeliner looks with ease.
Our recommendation – Maybelline Tattoo Liner Play 48h Colored Liquid Eyeliner
• Smokey Gel Eyeliner
Will you be surprised if we say that you can create a mess-free smokey eye look at lightspeed? Smokey gel eyeliner is a real phenomenon in the makeup world that helps you pull off a smoldering eye look in a snap. Place this eye makeup tool in the Galentine’s Day gift box and let your bestie create captivating night-time eye looks effortlessly. Afterall, a friend’s job is to make each other's life/makeup easier, right?
Our recommendation – Maybelline Tattoo Studio Smokey Gel Pencil Eyeliner
• Lengthening mascara
Select a lengthening mascara for your BFF as one of the Galentine’s Day gifts and allow them to take their lash game a notch higher. Lengthening mascaras are powerful enough to create transfixing lash looks. One or two lazy strokes and you are blessed with long, full, and heavenly lashes.
Our recommendation - Maybelline Lash Sensational Sky High Mascara
• Contrasting eyeshadow palette
Our promise of helping you find the quirky, fun-filled Galentine’s Day gifts is not over yet. At some point of time, we all have struggled to select eyeshadow combinations. However, nowadays, you can find duo/contrasting eyeshadow palette especially curated for you. So, this Galentine’s Day, wake up, dress up, and say yes to eyeshadow looks with shades or combinations (be it bottle green with pink or purple with shades of beige) you haven’t dared to try before.
Our recommendation – Maybelline’s New Color Rivals Shadow Duo
• Semi-permanent eyebrow gel
Is your girl pal a big fan of laminated brow look? Gift her a tinted brow gel with a semi-permanent formula and save her from the trouble of creating neat eyebrow looks every day. This type of brow gels help you get full, fluffy brows that lasts for up to 3-days. Isn’t it an amazing Galentine’s Day gifts idea?
Our recommendation – Maybelline Tattoo Brow 3 Day Styling Brow Gel
• Lipstick with vinyl-like finish
Can a lipstick be shiny, glossy and smudge-free at the same time? Yes! At Maybelline, we have lipsticks with vinyl-like finish that offer high-shine, ultra-glossy, juicy-lips. Features like transfer-proof and smudge-proof act like a feather to the crown. So, what are you waiting for? Put this unique lipstick in your Galentine’s gift set and help your secret-sharer upgrade her pout game.
Our recommendation - Maybelline Superstay Vinyl Ink Liquid Lipstick
We hope, the above-mentioned list of Galentine’s Day gifts have won your heart and you are ready to spill some extra love, care, and attention on your girl besties. What's more, you can be your own Galentine and pamper yourself with any of these gift ideas listed above. Select the makeup items you liked for your bestie (or for yourself) and put them all in a decorative box along with chocolates and wrap it with laces. And, you are done! If you are not sure if those face, eye, or lip makeup products would suit your bestie or not, you can check out tools like the Maybelline Virtual Try On tool and Maybelline Foundation Finder tool to get the best-in-class makeup-related assistance virtually.
