PoshMom Editorial Team
It’s time to celebrate your love—for yourself, your significant other, your kids, your extended family and your gal pal galentines. Look beyond the supermarket flowers and box of chocolates to get each of them a gift that they’ll cherish to the moon and back. Our Valentine’s Day gift guide will set you up to send big Xs and Os their way with special somethings that are fun, festive and will be as crazy deep rooted as your love.
Love to Wear It
It’s so amazing that hearts—done the right way—and red details are the cutest on clothes and jewelry to begin with. Wrap them up for Valentine’s and it’s even more meaningful. It’s also kind of reflective of us moms, using hearts to do the double-duty thing (Valentine’s and cuteness). Look for something on our Valentine’s Day gift guide that’s sophisticated for you (buy it for self-love or send a hint!), super cute for your mini-mes or stylish for your own mama or bestie. We love the baubles from Luv AJ, Adina Eden, Gorjana. And clothes from Beach Riot, Urban Outfitters, Pajamagram.
Home is Where the Heart is
Happy messages of love have a place at home, in the kitchen, living room, bedroom and more. Our Valentine’s Day gift guide covers cute and clever, delicate and meant to be hugged tight. Set the mood on V-day and other nights with romantic candles like this one from Glossier.
Serve Valentine’s meals (and beyond) up to your little loves in festive “dinnerware”sets like this whimsical one from Pottery Barn and this one from PB.
For the adults in the kitchen, this hugs and kisses cutting board from Words With Boards is perfect to pair with wine and cheese. And your tots will fall in love with these “stylish dolls with an impact”—hand-knit dolls from cuddle + kind with proceeds that go to feed children in need.
For the romantic guy who is all about retro, lean into his desire to turn down his air pods in favor of classic turntable tunes. Experience Vinyl has more than 40,000 titles to choose from on vinyl—talk about setting the mood.
You look LOVE-ly
Beauty products are top ideas on our Valentine’s Day gift guide. Why? Because every girl we know loves a good beauty product, from subtle and sheer to all-out glam, so you absolutely cannot go wrong. For those new to the makeup game, this set from Colourpop inspired by the Winx Club is everything, including sheer, shimmer and ultra glossy—prepare for them to be obsessed.
And that’s just what we are with Gucci Westman, makeup artist, cosmetics designer, and mom (of course!). The newest shadow look from Westman Atelier The Eye Love You Edition is a limited edition “le box” with just a hint of sparkle that is totally wearable and can take you day to night. Love that this fab mom knows how we need double-duty products.
So your loves can smell as good as they look, a must-have fragrance must be on the list and the scents from boutique brand The Harmonist make us tingle all over. With inspirations from Paris to Los Angeles, these lines celebrate earth’s elements and live by the philosophy “to bring balance through scent with fragrances that encourage wearers to turn their attention inward, to trust their senses, and to become in tune with themselves and their surroundings.” Mommy goals for sure.
A Fondness for Food
If your lovies expect a box of chocolates, we’re not saying to disappoint them but definitely to up the style quotient of the cocoa pieces you deliver with boxes of couverture (industry speak for fine vs. commercial chocolate), a top pick on our Valentine’s Day gift guide. Not only is the chocolate from these artisans made from higher quality ingredients, but it is often sustainably sourced and beautiful to look at—before they bite in with those sticky fingers! These magical ones for your Harry Potter fans are from one of our fave spots, Chocolatá.
For your grown-up guy who loves sweets as much as the mini ones, give him the gift of grown-up flavor. These yum cookies from MollyBz are delectable on their own and then kicked up a notch when infused with alcohol—like rum, vanilla vodka, amaretto and more.
And while we know you might dream of being whisked away (or doing the whisking away) on a romantic weekend (or, dare we say, a week!), it’s just not happening given your packed schedule of carpools, mommy and me’s, meetings, after-school sports and more. So here’s the next best thing: for your morning cup of jo, a World Tour box of coffee with 16 expertly-curated coffees from around the world from Bean Box. The coffee experience includes chocolaty Latin American coffees, fruit-forward African roasts, earthy Sumatran blends, and so many more.
If your man is the one making the wine selection, give him his own list from Winc—an exclusive wine club that tailors wine selections to his taste. It’s almost like magic: He answers six questions and wines that match his palate are delivered right to the door. Cheers.
Speaking of wine…as a gift for date night or a Galentine get together, this rosé is perfect in more ways than one. The name, Endless Crush, says it all and it’s palate—made explicitly to be a rosé and not from runoff from pinot production—starts with intense ripe fruit and flows into sweet florals, then drifts off to more fruit flavor of refreshing grapefruit, strawberry and watermelon.
