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If your face looks both youthful and conventionally sexy, you might be a Romantic Gamine Ingenue (RGI).

While Ethereal Dramatic Naturals are defined by elongated features, Romantic Gamine Ingenues are defined by the opposite: typically short noses and chins, with curvy eyes and lips that lack horizontal elongation:

Romantic Gamine Ingenues reveal the beauty of overtly round features.

Romantic Gamine Ingenue Celebrities

RGI celebrities are on Pinterest here and listed below:

Charli XCX
Debby Ryan
Francia Raisa
Hannah Murray
Jyothika
Katie Leung
Karrueche Tran
Kehlani
Mariah Carey
Neetu Chandra
Rita Ora
Rose McGowan
Skai Jackson

Romantic Gamine Ingenue Fashion

Romantic Gamine Ingenues wear playfully glam and girly fashion. Just like their faces, their best outfits appear youthful while also having high sex appeal:

This top perfectly mixes youth with sexiness. It has:
Ingenue lace with tiny uniform rounded shapes (Romantic lace will tend to have larger, curvier, less orderly shapes)
Romantic bust emphasis
Gamine cropped fit and overall boxy shape
A cropped leather jacket can have a lot of Gamine, too (just make sure it feels playfully edgy rather than intimidating—leather jackets often have Dramatic).
Pair with white skinny jeans to add even more Gamine. White slim fit capris can also work for Ingenue.

This might not exactly fall into the category of realistic fashion, but the two-piece set embodies RGI. It has:
Romantic sweetheart and off-the-shoulder neckline, plus glitter
Gamine very cropped top
Ingenue short tiered skirt
Sheerness usually adds Ethereal, but since the skirt silhouette is so Ingenue, and the outfit’s overall vibe is so RGI, there’s no significant tranquil Ethereal feel.

A more wearable RGI look, from the model on the left: an Ingenue Gamine cardigan, plus Romantic curving and waist-emphasizing top with Ingenue tiny delicate ruching.
From what we see of the pants, they also have Romantic with the larger ruching on the waistband.
The gentle color scheme underscores Ingenue. You could add more Gamine with a pop of color in makeup or shoes.

An embodiment of glam yet sweet RGI style: Romantic top, Ingenue skirt, and Gamine Romantic fun and glam slides.

A theme of RGI fashion: lots of cropped silhouettes.

This reflects that RGI faces feel both youthful and sexy, and that short hemlines can easily embody both youth and sex appeal.

It also reflects that RGI faces tend to lack elongation, making maxi dresses tough to pull off:

Romantic Gamine Ingenue Neetu Chandra has a stunning face, with beautifully rounded and short features.

Neetu Chandra is still amazingly beautiful here. Her face on its own is a “wow,” and the gown is a “wow,”
But since her face is so compact, and the gown is so long, the pairing doesn’t feel optimal.

Romantic Gamine Ingenue Makeup

Romantic Gamine Ingenues get incredibly fun makeup options.

Romantic Gamine Ingenue Charli XCX

Conventional beauty advice says to emphasize eyes or lips, not both. But Romantic is enlivened by glamorous, elaborate makeup (including simultaneous eye and lip emphasis), and Gamine is gorgeous in bold, creative makeup.
So darkly tightlined eyes, long lashes, and a vibrant lip work for Charli XCX. The lip shade may be a little vibrant for her color season, but the lip color’s *vibe* really works for her playfully glam style type.

Charli XCX is amazing in bold makeup, because she has a ton of Romantic and Gamine.

But RGIs with high amounts of Ingenue will be more flattered by lighter lip colors, gentler lashes, and no tightlining.

In fact, even faces with a lot of Romantic are sometimes overwhelmed by intense tightlining:

Aggressive tightlining conflicts with RGI Francia Raisa’s soft beauty.
She does have a lot of Romantic, and Romantics are great in sultry eye makeup.
But Francia has enough Ingenue where all-around-outlined eyes feel heavy.

Here we can really see *her*, rather than being distracted by extreme eye emphasis. And if you look closely, her eyes actually are still mostly tightlined in a dark color. The key is that here the tightlining stops before her inner eye corners, creating subtler eye emphasis that better flatters Ingenue. The lip gloss, eyeshadow, and blush in light colors also add the softness that highly Romantic or Ingenue faces need.

Finally, if you’re an RGI with a lot of Gamine, you can pull off some really creative looks:

How can someone look so natural in electric blue winged liner, emphasized with a contrasting accent color toward the inner eye corners?
Having a lot of Gamine makes this a stellar makeup application for RGI Rita Ora.
The light pink lips with gentle gloss tie in Ingenue, while her very arched and tapered brows bring in Romantic.

Romantic Gamine Ingenue Hair

Can RGIs pull off long hair? Yes, but long, straight hair on RGI can feel heavy (Dramatic), similar to the effect of wearing a long, severe maxi dress:

Charli XCX is so gorgeous regardless of styling, but this long sleek hair doesn’t make too much sense with her face. And anything longer would really clash with her compact features.

RGIs can pull off very long hair, but typically only if the hair is in full Romantic curls or tight Ingenue ringlets.

Even RGIs with a lot of Romantic might find that anything beyond a few inches past the shoulders starts to feel too heavy, since Gamine prefers short hair (bob-length and above) and Ingenue prefers more moderate lengths.

Are Romantic Gamine Ingenues Short?

RGIs generally want to avoid extreme elongation in their hair and outfits, and even in their makeup (for instance, winged liner is generally great for Romantic Gamine Ingenue, but wings that feel both angular and extra-long should be avoided, since they can have Dramatic).

This all brings up the question—do Romantic Gamine Ingenues tend to be short?

Not necessarily!

Any body type can have any style type. While there might be patterns and correlations—for instance, Ethereal Dramatic Naturals might be tall on average—body type and style type don’t always correlate.

So using your body type or height to determine your style essences can produce inaccurate results.

For instance, RGI Mariah Carey is tall—reportedly anywhere from 5’7’’ to 5’9’’. RGI Neetu Chandra is also tall, listed at 5’7’’.

So even if you’re tall, you can still be an RGI.

And even if you’re short, you won’t necessarily have any Gamine or Ingenue in your face. Some people have a longer face shape while not having a long body, like Dramatic Naturals Sarah Jessica Parker and Sarah Levy, who are both only 5’3’.”

Romantic Gamine Ingenue Mistypings

Romantic Gamine Ingenues can have recognizable beauty—they often have notably round or short faces and features.

But overall, RGIs tend to be very challenging to type, because they defy many essence stereotypes.

Romantic Overlooked

Strongly youthful faces are often assumed to not have Romantic, since Romantic appears stereotypically mature.

So RGIs with a lot of Gamine and/or Ingenue might have their Romantic essence go overlooked—especially when they’re not wearing makeup:

RGI Hannah Murray

If you Google Hannah Murray, you’ll see that she’s flattered by full Romantic waves and glam makeup. But in relaxed styling, the elaborate nature of her Romantic features becomes harder to see.

Mistyped as Dramatic

Romantic passion combined with Gamine angularity can also mimic sharp-edged Dramatic intensity:

RGI Francia Raisa’s passionate Romantic and pointy Gamine might be mistaken for imposing Dramatic. But Dramatic styling, like long straight hair, isn’t her most flattering look, at least not compared to how mesmerizing she is in full Romantic waves.

This can be compounded by the fact that some RGIs might be considered “Theatrical Romantics” in Kibbe’s body typing system—Romantic with Dramatic influence.

Other Possible Mistypings

RGIs’ compact faces and small features might also lead them to be mistaken for having the moderation of Classic.

Their round faces, which can create a full-looking, sometimes wide jawline, could also be mistaken for having Natural.

And while RGIs probably aren’t commonly mistaken for having Ethereal, if you’re familiar with the Romantic Ethereal Gamine type, then you might recognize that Romantic Ethereal Gamine and Romantic Gamine Ingenue can look extremely similar. They can be difficult to tell apart without a thorough draping process.

What Makes RGIs so Beautiful: Neoteny and Maturity

Many theories exist about what makes a beautiful face.

My view is that beauty, logically, is ultimately a matter of opinion (just like any other aesthetic, sensory judgment—favorite song, favorite color, favorite ice cream flavor, favorite facial features, etc.).

With that said, there are common themes in what people tend to find attractive.

One is facial neoteny: features that retain youthful, even childlike or babyish characteristics, including large foreheads, round eyes, and small chins.

Another is sexual maturity: features that suggest that an individual is not a child and instead is of viable reproductive age, like full lips, prominent cheekbones, and arched brows.

The fascinating thing about Romantic Gamine Ingenue faces is that they tend to have high levels of both kinds of traits: neotenous (Gamine and Ingenue) and sexually mature (Romantic). So RGIs seem to have widely appealing beauty.

It’s also interesting to note that while the Romantic essence isn’t stereotypically associated with a youthful appearance, Romantics also tend to have many features that can be considered neotenous, including large eyes, small chins, and relatively large foreheads.

This is why it’s somewhat misleading to say that Romantics tend to look “mature.” They do tend to look sexually mature, but they also tend to have neotenous features that signal youth.

So it’s probably more accurate to say that as a child and teen, a person with a lot of Romantic tends to look mature for their age, whereas that same person as they progress through adulthood will likely begin to look young for their age, because they retain their curving Romantic features (like full cheeks and lips), which are indicators of biological youth.

So, Romantics look older when they’re young, and younger when they’re old. Whereas Gamines and Ingenues tend to look young across time.

Another way of saying this: Romantics tend to look figuratively mature, but beyond the teenage years, they tend to look young in a literal, biological sense.

Whereas across time, highly Gamine and Ingenue faces tend to look young in both a figurative and literal sense. This is because Gamine and Ingenue faces project figuratively youthful qualities (energy and cheer for Gamine; sweetness and innocence for Ingenue), and both essences also have literal characteristics, like overall short faces and features, that make them appear biologically young.

Regardless of age, when you combine passionate Romantic, flirty Gamine, and sweet Ingenue, you get an extremely alluring, endearing type of beauty.

Romantic Gamine Ingenue