Glam Audrey Hepburn

One of the most famous Romantic Classic Gamines—movie star and classic beauty Audrey Hepburn—is also one of the most popular fashion icons ever.

Did Audrey dress to flatter her essences, or do her timeless outfits continue to captivate despite clashing with her face? We explore this below!

Romantic Classic Gamine celebrities

Romantic Classic Gamine celebrities are on Pinterest here and listed below:

Alicia Vikander
Audrey Hepburn
Diane von Furstenberg
Janel Parrish
Kiana Madeira
Laci Mosley
Monique Coleman
Morena Baccarin
Naomi Scott
Nina Dobrev

Romantic Classic Gamine fashion

Romantic Classic Gamine fashion is super sexy and super classy.

Romantics wear glamorous fashion like plunging necklines and clingy fabric, and Gamines wear cropped styles and very short hemlines.

So a pure Romantic Gamine can easily dress like a Bratz Doll or a pin-up girl, but they might have to be a little creative to put together a formal, understated ensemble.

Highly Romantic Gamine style is super fun, but your work/school dress code may not be onboard.

Classic solves the how-do-I-look-understated dilemma of the Romantic Gamine type, because Classic simplicity and elegance are the perfect complements to Romantic Gamine overt sexiness.

Of course, Romantic Classic Gamine fashion can still be super sexy:

This inventive outfit proves it’s not just Dramatics who get to experiment with the avant-garde.

Romantic elements: the curving exposed neckline top, sexiness of the heels
Gamine elements: white skinny jeans, mini angular purse, cropped top, playfulness of the heels
Classic elements: beige trench, turtleneck sweater neckline, overall neutral color scheme

This look has so many statement elements—the rogue top, nonconformist heels, fascinatingly tiny bag—it seems unlikely that they could all coexist harmoniously.

What ties everything together is the understated, white-on-beige-on-slightly-darker-beige Classic color scheme, plus the fact that the outfit’s conservative color palette is echoed by the timeless elegance of the trench.

Here a very different outfit uses a very similar formula:

Romantic elements: Elaborate all-over lace top, strappy glam heels

Gamine elements: Dark skinny jeans, small rectangular bag, fun sunglasses
Classic elements: Basic neutral plaid blazer and monogrammed belt

One thing I love about fashion, and especially about dressing by your style essences, is that it can be simultaneously formulaic and innovative.

When dressing by your essences, you can employ templates that you rely on to manifest the perfect outfit. Based on the two above looks, a great RCG outfit formula is: Romantic glam shoes and top + Gamine narrow jeans + basic Classic jacket and color scheme.

And even within these formulas, there’s still so much room to be creative and to mix and match the unexpected.

And of course, you can revise your fashion formulas as needed at any time. For instance, maybe your formula includes glam heels, but one day you want to swap them for Gamine sneakers.

With style analysis, you can create outfit templates that make getting dressed extremely easy when you want that, and then have ample room to innovate when you want that, too.

Again we have a variation of the former RCG formula: a Romantic sexy lace top and Classic simple jacket (double-breasted blazer). But this time we have a Classic minimalist bag instead of a Gamine one. What does add Gamine are the small geometric earrings.

A much more highly Gamine look:

The chunky strapped shoes with short socks and the straight mini skirt are super Gamine, while the overall conservative color palette and understated top epitomize Classic. There isn’t significant Romantic here, but you could add it with glamorous wavy hair, sultry makeup (like smokey eyes and/or glossy lips), or large, sparkling, generously curving jewelry.

Romantic Classic Gamine hair

Romantic Classic Gamines have the challenge that Romantics are flattered by long hair (at least several inches past the shoulders), Classic are flattered by medium hair (around shoulder-length), and Gamines are flattered by short cuts (bob-length or above).

So… what should RCGs do with their hair?

It depends on your specific ratio of essences. Sometimes it can depend on which of your facial features have which essences, too.

So if your overall face shape is rather short (influenced by Gamine), you might find that a pixie cut works as an RCG. But if you have a more Classic, oval-shaped face, you might find that a very cropped cut feels jarring.

Hair texture also has a huge influence on your best styles. For example, here’s RCG Morena Baccarin with “long” hair:

Obviously this hair isn’t Rapunzel-length—take a couple inches off, and you’d have a medium, Classic length cut. But this hair looks really long on Morena because of her relatively short face shape and features. She has a lot of Gamine, so this sleek, straight hair feels (overly) long.

So if Morena’s going to wear a straight texture, then bob-length hair, or just a few inches below, is more flattering than a longer cut.

But Morena also has a lot of Romantic. So in full waves, the hair length she has above would be gorgeous on her. (See the long, wavy hair texture she has in the movie Deadpool.)

Sometimes we see a certain length of hair on ourselves and think, “Wow, my hair’s starting to look too long—I guess I can’t do long hair.” But it’s entirely possible you can, it’s just that your hair needs to be a specific texture for that length to work.

Classics and Gamines are also fantastic in bangs, and Audrey Hepburn provides the ultimate inspiration for your best fringe.

Speaking of Audrey…

Did Audrey Hepburn dress by her style essences?

In many ways, RCG Audrey Hepburn did dress by her style type. Her fashion aesthestic is revered for its minimalism, elegance, and timelessness—all hallmarks of her Classic essence.

Audrey understood, consciously or unconsciously, that her face’s balanced proportions are flattered by simple Classic lines.

Audrey Hepburn in a polished Classic jacket.

Classic clothes are so understated, it can be tempting to call them boring. But if you have a highly Classic face, Classic outfits make you look fascinating, because the viewer is struck by how you look so enchanting in something so simple.

If you have the Classic essence, even the most basic beige trench or black turtleneck becomes special when you wear it.

This is likely part of why Audrey provides such lasting style inspiration. People might not realize they love the harmony of her Classic face paired with her heavily Classic fashiono, but viewers are (consciously or unconsciously) struck by how she looks so gorgeous in such seemingly ordinary style.

But Audrey’s wardrobe was far from purely Classic. She also wore many narrow, cropped silhouettes and playful prints, which flatter Gamine.

Her iconic short, dense, angular brows and bold yet tiny cat eyes are awesome for Gamine, too.

Interestingly, out of her three style essences, the one she most frequently downplayed in her styling—and often even omitted altogether—is Romantic.

Audrey seems known as a Classic beauty icon and sometimes as a Gamine beauty icon. But especially compared to other Old Hollywood stars, she isn’t as defined by a penchant for Romantic glamour.

Sometimes, though, she did highlight her Romantic essence, even if subtly, with elements like tapered brows, long lashes, and glittery jewelry.

And sometimes, you might find that you can actually emphasize one of your style essences by not emphasizing it.

That sounds like the ultimate contradiction, but what I mean is that for a Romantic Classic Gamine, having straight hair and bangs can sometimes emphasize the very curvy Romantic elements of the face, because of the contrast.

Part of what people love about Audrey might be that she knew the beauty of restraint, and that she recognized how minimalist fashion both flattered her Classic essence and was a clever way to subtly highlight the glamour of her Romantic features.

Audrey didn’t often flaunt her Romantic in her styling, and that might be another reason why she’s so captivating—because her Romantic isn’t emphasized, it surprises us. Her Romantic allure might largely influence us outside of our awareness. And sometimes subconscious, subtle influence can be the most powerful, because you’re unaware of it and so are unable to consciously dismiss or ignore it.

Romantic Classic Gamine faces

Romantic Classic Gamines are fascinating for their alluring, playful, balanced, and extremely versatile beauty.

As an RCG, you can play up the polished Classic and quirky Gamine elements of your aesthetic, as Audrey often did.

Or you can use smokey shadow, long lashes, lipgloss, and arched, tapered brows, to emphasize your Romantic:

Romantic Classic Gamine Nina Dobrev—stunning in sultry Romantic smokey eyes.

Romantic Classic Gamine brows

Romantic Classic Gamine Nina Dobrev is a perfect example of how much the RCG face (and really any face) can change simply depending on brow shape.

Nina is often photographed with much overall straighter, denser brows, which emphasize her Gamine and give her face a more youthful vibe.

But when she goes for ultra-tapered arches, like above, it accentuates her Romantic allure. As a Romantic Classic Gamine, you can use your brows and other makeup to dramatically change the nature of your beauty.

Romantic Classic Gamine makeup

Romantic and Gamine together are arguably one of the most conventionally sexy, maybe the most conventionally sexy, essence combinations. With this pairing, you blend the sensual nature of Romantic with the teasing, flirtatious nature of Gamine.

Fittingly, Romantic Gamine makeup tends to read as seductive and attention-grabbing. As an RCG, you can enhance your inherent allure with expressively arched and defined brows, and eyes emphasized with tightlining.

Romantic Classic Gamine Janel Parrish. These might not be the most currently trendy brows, but their defined shape and energetic arches fit her face. Like Nina Dobrev, she can also rock fuller, less-arched brows, but they would give her face a different feel and wouldn’t emphasize her highly Romantic features.

So Romantic Classic Gamines have amazing faces for their ability to balance large amounts of statement makeup, as well as to alter their vibe with a few flicks of a brow pencil.

And not only are RCGs great in standout, statement makeup, they’re also captivating in more Classic, even minimalis looks:

This is actually a fair bit of makeup—dark lashes and liner plus a berry lip. On a different face, it might even look like “too much.”

But because Alicia Vikander has a lot of Romantic and Gamine, the precision of the makeup, combined with her understated hair and outfit, creates a largely Classic impression. And she looks breathtaking.

Like Audrey Hepburn, Alicia Vikander can handle more elaborate overall styling than what she commonly wears. By keeping things relatively minimal (for RCG), we’re struck by both her poise and her subtle Romantic allure.

Does style analysis “put you in a box?”

Some people might be hesitant to explore their style type because they don’t want to be “put in a box” or feel limited in their fashion options.

But the truth is that for most essence blends, your style type actually provides a fantastic platform for exploring a variety of visual identities, in a way that still feels harmonious with your inherent beauty.

Because our literal features, and the figurative meanings those features convey, are so complicated, you can learn your style type and still succeed at cultivating a different (and harmonious!) style identity every week, if that’s something that you want.

From Glam Audrey Hepburn to Classy Bratz Doll to Sexy French Girl to Romantic Preppy to Polished Pin-up Girl—the possibilities for your RCG aesthetic are endless.

So learning your style type isn’t like being put into a constricting box—it’s like finding a box that you’re able to step out of, and back into, any time you want. And the box contains infinite passageways revealing new variations of your style. And the box also holds the secrets to looking your most beautiful.

Romantic Classic Gamine