If

Emily Didonato

doesn’t have huge plans for

Valentine’s Day

, it’s fine. The 27-year-old model and face of Maybelline for 10 years has had plenty of romance in the last year, after marrying her husband in a gorgeous ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch in Colorado last June. “Valentine’s Day is not really a thing for both of us,” says Didonato, who grew up in upstate New York and went on to walk the runway for Chanel and Louis Vuitton, among many others. “Almost every year I’ve had to work; I’m always away. We may just cook dinner at home and do something low-key. It’s nice to just relax and be at home, light some candles, just the two of us.”

Relaxing sounds fitting. After launching her own beauty-dedicated YouTube channel in the last year—a video about her 10-minute everyday makeup has gotten more than 137,000 views—and landing magazine covers and fashion campaigns around the world, Didonato has learned to chill as hard as she works. This is most on display on her Instagram, which is full of cozy day-off shots in soft sweaters and loose topknots with jokes about wine and reality TV binges for her 1.4 million followers. But there’s plenty of glamour too, as exhibited by Didonato’s ensembles for

AmfAR

, for example, or in the pages of

Vogue

Paris, Thailand, and Greece. In keeping with this juxtaposition of fancy and low-key, we tapped one of the model’s favorite makeup artists,

Misha Shahzada

, to give us a glam Valentine’s date-night makeup look and a sweet morning-after look. We also ask Didonato about keeping a balance and how she and her husband keep their relationship healthy.

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