Am I Gamine or Ingenue?

Gamine and Ingenue are the two style essences that embody youthful beauty. If you are often taken for much younger than you are, you likely have a strong dose of one of these essences. But which one? 
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• A Gamine often looks adorable with a cheeky or wicked grin (like Ginnifer Goodwin), while an Ingenue looks lovely with an innocent, full smile (like Lupita Nyong'o).  

Gamine's cheeky grin.

Ingenue's sweet, sincere smile.

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•  Gamines look gorgeous with very short hair, while Ingenues look beautiful with longer hair -- especially when it' has some curl.  ​

Emma Watson surely has a lot of Gamine. Short, boyish hair is so, so good on her.

Laura Linney, by contrast, looks so much more like herself with long hair. She's certainly youthful-looking, and her youthfulness is Ingenue, not Gamine.

• It's easy to see a Gamine woman passing as a little boy, with the right hair and clothes. Ingenues can't do that.

 Clockwise from top left: Winona Ryder, Natalie Portman, Milla Jovovich, and (of course!) Maisie Williams all sell it as boys. Google these women, and you'll see they're flattered by Gamine styles.

Keira Knightley and Angelina Jolie, by contrast, couldn't really pass as boys:

(Although in each of their cases, I think it's both the lack of Gamine and the presence of Romantic that makes them fail this test. I don't think either one has much, if any, Ingenue either. That's mature beauty, there.)

I hope this helps those of you with youthful beauty sort yourselves out!

:-)

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