What is so wrong with Valentine's Day

Imposed stereotypes about the need to demonstrate their feelings it is on Valentine's Day sometimes lead to ridiculous situations. And the rest 364 days a year are quite suitable for expressing feelings. For a joint project with YSL Beauty, we asked five girls to talk about their attitude to the holiday.

Katya Mayskaya, account manager

In the first classes, we waited with trepidation on February 14 - of course, to boast the number of valentines we received. It is unlikely that at that age we were aware of the full responsibility of our declarations of love, but this brightened up the February weekdays. Over time, the holiday with all its tinsel and paraphernalia seemed to me just to play.

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And a few years ago, my boyfriend and I drove past the shooting range, I said jokingly that it would be great to stop by and shoot. So we did: the whole evening we fired rifles at toy hearts! Since then, we have such a tradition - every Valentine's Day to go to the shooting range. So it turns out to spend the day in a brutal format, without any extra sentiment.

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Lisa Sotnikova, model

I met Valentine's Day only once. We exchanged gifts with the young man from the sex shop, tried them on and could not use them for their intended purpose - it was so ridiculous and ridiculous from the very idea. And at the same time I am rather neutral about the holiday - people walk in couples, give gifts, try to make each other enjoyable.

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Maybe many girls would dream of meeting this day somewhere on the top of the Eiffel Tower, studded with roses, in the arms of a handsome prince, like in a beautiful Disney cartoon, but I love spontaneity. Why wait for a certain holiday? Enough to have a romantic mood and an open visa, and the date is not important.

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Julia Us, creative producer

We have with our young man our Valentine's Day. And ours does not coincide with the calendar holiday, we are not limited either by stereotypes or decorations - eternal companions on February 14th. Once, on the 22nd of another month, we confessed love to each other. Before that, they hid their feelings with an important look. So the date of love of two identical numbers was the day when we make each other surprises.

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We can break into Berlin and run a marathon, spend the whole day on the golf course without the Internet, hide the letter with the message in an unexpected place. Joint rituals and small traditions bring together, and the creative in large and small pleasant gestures, contrary to stereotypes, inspires in the same way both women and men.

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Sonya Tarasova, DJ, music director of "Lambada Market"

Always concerned with Valentine's Day with suspicion, touching or tremulous memories of this holiday over the past decade, no. Only at school, yielding to the general impulse, decided to take part in this outrage: signed the scarlet heart "Vanya, I love you! Sonya T.", gathered her courage and sent him to the 11b guy.

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Vanya, in turn, asked me to pass on a valentine to Kate M. - my best friend. The first youthful “love” has sunk into oblivion longing and oblivion, and the holiday turned into a heart wound. I am sure that love does not know the time, dates and boundaries, to give her only one day a year is an outrage.

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Masha Klyuchnikova, model

I celebrated Valentine's Day only in my youth - then it seemed very important that a loved one should congratulate you on this day. Recently, I overestimate traditional holidays. For example, this year did not celebrate the New Year: much happier to meet the beginning of the sunny spring. The same is true of Valentine's Day.

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I have been in a relationship for six years now, and my young man and I often arrange romantic adventures for ourselves without reference to calendar dates. You can book a table or go to the cinema on February 14, but for what? To feel involved in a date that has nothing to do with our relationship? Our only tradition is to enjoy life and not create traditions.

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