We Heart Valentine’s Day

February 8

Forget roses and chocolate. Give me pretty paper, impossibly glamorous pillar candles and aphrodisiac tea on Valentine’s Day. Wait. Give me those every day! xoxo –Bets

You couldn’t pay me to be a teenager again, but Maybelline Baby Lips ($4) tinted balms take me right back to passing time and after-school dances.

Anything Kate Spade loves, I want. Including this girly coffee table book ($40) and most definitely that striped settee.

Grown-up hair ties two ways: Rock Solid studded hair elastics by Ban.Do ($20 each) . . .

. . . and sweet heart elastics by Emi-Jay ($6.50/set)

Oh sweet, sweet Sugar Paper, you’re killing me softly with this darling gold embossed confetti card ($6).

For anyone who’s too cool for Vday school, there’s Rodin Olio Lusso’s scented candle. It smells like jasmine and neroli, burns for 85-hours, looks like a work of modern art, and costs a very pretty penny ($125). I’ll take two.

I’m officially on a tea kick, and Kusmi is next. More than one reader has sung its praises, and now I hear its the drink of choice at NYFW. Sweet Love increases physical and mental alertness and packs a pink-pepper punch of antioxidants. Spicy!