“Beach Babe”

“Modern Goddess”

Of all the style types, Romantic Ethereal Naturals wear the most beachy fashion:

sexy, revealing Romantic
sheer, flowy Ethereal
casual, carefree Natural

The perfect essence blend for swimsuits, cover-ups, flowy dresses, and other lounge-chair-friendly attire.

Carefree Aphrodite

Romantic Ethereal Natural (REN) faces blend seductive, supernatural, and carefree beauty.

With their unique essence blend, RENs can look like down-to-earth goddesses—like Aphrodite relaxing on the beach.

Romantic Ethereal Natural Celebrities

Romantic Ethereal Natural (REN) celebrities are on Pinterest here and listed below:

Adrien Brody
Bebe Buell (with Ingenue as fourth essence)
Billy Bob Thornton
CariDee English
Courtney Love
David Tennant
Elvis
FKA Twigs
Keanu Reeves
Lana Del Rey
Liv Tyler
Natascha McElhone
Solange Knowles
Stacey McKenzie
Tracee Ellis Ross
Whitney Port

Romantic Ethereal Natural Fashion

Here are several ways to do REN style:

Method 1: Sexy Boho

One easy way to achieve REN style: curate a sexier version of the boho aesthetic.

With this approach, you combine:

Boho’s dreamy-meets-down-to-earth, Ethereal Natural feel
Romantic elements, like large swathes of lace or curvy plunging necklines

In an opaque fabric, this could be a flowy (Ethereal) and roomy (Natural) boho dress. What adds Romantic is the sheer knit plus sensual bikini top—a perfect Romantic Ethereal Natural outfit for a day at the beach.

Method 2: Casual Goddess

Another approach to achieving an REN look: do a more casual version of Romantic Ethereal goddess-inspired fashion.

Courtney Love often did an extreme version of this, as discussed here—she wore lots of lacy and silky Romantic Ethereal pieces, but they were almost always accompanied by her signature Natural grunge, like her styled-to-look-unstyled hair, often adorned with dreamy-yet-casual hairpieces.

Courtney Love wore a lot of highly Romantic and Ethereal fashion but made it look much more carefree than the formality inherent to those essences. Her whimsical hair pieces and shaggy layers helped casualize her aesthetic.

By putting a Natural spin on Romantic Ethereal fashion, Courtney Love simultaneously flatters her essences and makes her overall aesthetic feel more modern and rebellious than typical Romantic Ethereal style.

But importantly, a grungy, even “messy” aesthetic, is absolutely not the only way to do REN style.

It does look incredibly cool on Courtney Love, and if you’re a Romantic Ethereal Natural, it will look incredibly cool on you.

But as a Romantic Ethereal Natural, your style doesn’t have to be grunge at all.

A more polished way to do REN style is to rely on a particular beloved fashion item:

Method 3: The Flowy Wrap Dress

If you’re REN, the wrap dress is definitely a wardrobe staple:

Romantic elements: sexy high slit skirt; wrap silhouette; moderate-sized, curving, sophisticated florals

Ethereal elements: long skirt that flows gently away from the body, especially combined with the lightweight fabric and what appears to be flutter sleeves
Natural elements: overall looseness of the dress, particularly the top, and the straw bag accessory

Another beachy REN wrap dress:

Again we have a wrap style and slit skirt for Romantic, with elongation and flow for Ethereal. This time, the neckline and bodice are extremely sexy and Romantic, too.

What introduces Natural: the overall casual feel and relaxed styling—loose, straight-ish but not super sleek hair and bare feet.

If you look very closely, you can see that the dress is also covered in tiny polka dots, which typically have an Ingenue, Gamine, or sometimes Classic feel. From far away, they just blend into the skirt, so the dress works for REN, though you could also choose a solid-color version.

Here’s a less beachy wrap dress:

This dress is highly Romantic, with a sensual vibe from the shiny fabric and glam curvy belt. But with the collar and overall width and looseness of the top and sleeves, we get a very relaxed Natural feel. The flowy Ethereal skirt silhouette makes this dress Modern Goddess approved.

So the wrap dress can be one of the best styles to wear as a Romantic Ethereal Natural, because:

Wrap styles are often associated with Romantic—fabric that appears to be wrapped around the body exudes sensual vibes, since it helps to create and emphasize curves.
Wrap styles also often include gently draped elongation, especially in the skirt, which flatters Ethereal.
And sometimes a wrap dress feels rather roomy or relaxed, like it was just kind of thrown around the body spontaneously—this adds Natural.

Method 4: Camisole Meets Casual

Here’s another REN wardrobe staple: the Romantic Ethereal lace camisole.

The camisole’s delicate sexiness—spaghetti straps transitioning into lacy neckline—reflects Romantic, while the pale color and body-skimming but not skin-tight fit feels Ethereal, especially in super lightweight and/or semi-sheer fabric.

This jacket likely has other essences besides Natural. But with its extremely undone styling, it exudes Natural carefreeness.

To make this outfit purely REN, you could pair it with a fully Natural oversized distressed denim jacket or add Natural roomy denim shorts or relaxed-fit jeans.

Romantic Ethereal Natural Makeup

Romantic Ethereal Naturals can be breathtaking in minimal makeup:

REN Lana Del Rey

Gentle makeup fits REN’s beachy aesthetic—you don’t need a fully made-up face for relaxing by the ocean.

Ethereal and Natural are both their best in a light makeup application. For Natural, this means incorporating (not shockingly) natural-looking makeup: colors that are close to the ones already found in your skin and your lips, for instance, with just a bit more pigment than your natural lips and cheeks. Bronzer is particularly great when applied to the cheeks for a sun-kissed glow and can even be used as eyeshadow.

Ethereals are also flattered by extremely light makeup, especially by gentle shimmer. It’s hard to use too much highlight on a highly Ethereal face. Pale shimmery eyelids, very light lip colors, the gentlest blush—what could look “washed-out” on a different style essence looks mesmerizing on Ethereals.

For Ethereal Natural makeup, less can be more —when the makeup has a light touch, the stunning beauty of the features comes through.

Romantic Ethereal Natural Caridee English

As model Caridee English illustrates, Romantic Ethereal Naturals often have strong bone structure, and so can be assumed to have Dramatic.

One test of whether an REN is actually Dramatic is whether they’re highly flattered by intense Dramatic makeup, like very dark lip colors and angular liquid liner.

For Caridee, the answer is no—softness and restraint, rather than boldness, brings her to life.

This is true for many other RENs, including Natascha McElhone:

Natascha McElhone is beautiful here, and if this makeup was a bit smokier, softer, and more blended, it’d be awesome for REN. Here her overall look reads as slightly heavy and matte for REN’s transcendent, goddess-like aesthetic.

For RENs with a lot of Romantic, you can handle heavier elements, like full-yet-fluffy lashes and generous blush. But your best makeup will still feel blended and somewhat soft, as opposed to harsh or graphic.

Romantic Ethereal Natural Whitney Port is gorgeous in long full lashes and lipgloss, especially because she kept the rest of her makeup minimal.

Romantic makeup presents a paradox: Romantics can handle a lot of makeup, but their best makeup is still “soft:” blended vs. unblended, shiny vs. matte, and curving vs. angular.

So you can think of Romantic makeup as “heavy yet light” or “intense yet gentle.”

If you’re an REN with a lot of Romantic, “glamorous boho” can be a great way to conceptualize your best makeup and fashion.

Romantic Ethereal Natural faces

Confused for Ingenue

Romantic and Ethereal combined together can mimic the look of Ingenue. The rounded shapes of Romantic combine with the gentle, angelic beauty of Ethereal to resemble the rounded, gentle feel of Ingenue.

This is true for any essence blend that has both Romantic and Ethereal (Romantic Ethereal Dramatic, Romantic Ethereal Gamine, etc.).

One of the best ways to disentangle your real essences from your imposter essences is to consider your most flattering hair. While Romantic Ethereal blends are often best in long (e.g., at least several inches past the shoulders) waves, Ingenues are best in very tight, corkscrew curls that tend to be shorter or moderate (e.g., shoulder-length).

Confused for Dramatic

As mentioned, Romantic Ethereal Naturals are also easily mistaken for having Dramatic, because RENs often have strong bone structure.

Based on the celebrities I’ve analyzed so far, Romantic Ethereal Naturals also seem tall on average, another trait often associated with Dramatics (even though people of any height can have any combination of style essences!)

RENs Courtney Love, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Liv Tyler are all 5’7’’ and above, with strong bone structure that can mimic the look of Dramatic.

Hair can be a good clue to Dramatic vs. Natural. Above, the extra-long bangs work on Courtney Love, because they feel stylishly messy, fitting her carefree Natural essence.

What Romantic Ethereal Naturals will want to avoid is bangs that feel extra-long and intense.

REN Liv Tyler’s extra-long bangs are sleek and intense (Dramatic) rather than carefree. So they feel a bit “heavy” on her face.

Sometimes people say that if you have a long face, you should use full bangs to make your face look shorter. In general, that notion is misguided. Romantic Ethereal Natural Liv Tyler is more harmonious without obvious bangs:

Naturals can do a very deep side part, similar to Liv’s here, because it emphasizes the wide shapes that often characterize Natural faces. Romantics and Ethereals are also flattered by side parts but will typically want to do something a bit less extreme than this. Having all three essences makes Liv’s deep part work.

With minimal makeup and carefree hair, plus the ocean backdrop, plus a wrap-style-something-or-other (maybe a “casual robe,” which echoes the down-to-earth-royalty vibes of REN), Liv Tyler really embodies the casual goddess vibe.

And because this vibe is so different than an imposing Dramatic one, Dramatic fashion on RENs can feel jarring:

Severe, sleek Dramatic hair and dresses make the Romantic Ethereal Natural appear constrained. Incidentally, this dress is pretty much the opposite of what people wear to the beach—it contradicts the carefree REN aesthetic.

Romantic Ethereal Natural Aura

Like the Ethereal Natural type, Romantic Ethereal Naturals project “good vibes,” simultaneously embodying a connection to nature (Natural) and transcendence to a higher purpose (Ethereal).

What RENs add is overt Romantic passion and emotional intensity. But even with this passionate addition, there still tends to be a gorgeous, sensual tranquility to the REN aura.

Romantic Ethereal Natural