Photo: Cards, candy, and roses. Oh my! Check out some of our gift recommendations below! (Getty Images)
Not everyone is a sucker for the sacharine romanticism of Valentine's Day--myself included. The bad chocolate! The stuffed animals! The PDA! To soften those hard, cynical hearts, we've rounded up some charitable ways to have fun with Cupid's arrow. If you get busted being mushy, you can always blame it on the greater good...
First, and at the very least, send a card. At the very, very least, send an ecard. Better yet, send one of these foxy G by GUESS ecards and you'll be supporting Love is Louder to boot.
Play dress-up in Kardashian quality shoes. False eyelashes, second skin dresses and rhinestone smartphones not required. Just the red heels, with 10 percent of the proceeds going to heart health research organizations.
Photo: Snooki holds up a fans lock of hair at a Locks of Love event.
Get a trim. Locks of Love--the organization that makes wigs for kids who've lost their hair to illness or injury--will motivate you to try out that Michelle Williams crop without sending your beloved ponytail to the landfill. All you need are 10 peroxide-free inches and the moxy to chop 'em off. If you happen to live in or around the Bethesda, Maryland, area, drop into Bella Bethesda hair salon during "Cut It For a Cause" week (Feb. 12-20) and one of the stylists will give you a dramatically new 'do for free.
Photo: charity: water's Diamond Waterdrop bracelet. (charitywater.org)
Go glam(-ish). charity: water and the jewelry company Kwiat teamed up to design the Diamond Waterdrop bracelet, a delicate charm on a black leather cord that is beautiful but still chill enough for everyday wear. And get this -- 100% of funds raised through the sale of the bracelet with go directly to funding operations for charity: water! Order today (Feb. 9) to get it in time for Valentine's Day.
Shop around. For every gift you buy through Causes.com, a $10 donation goes straight to Invisible Children to help support advocacy against child soldiers in Uganda. No brainer.
Take action below (and at the end of any post) to be entered to win a dozen roses from Trey Songz on Valentine's Day! Read the sweeps details.
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