[1] In Mi Novia, Luna employed an "ingratiating technique" that is predisposed to stifle the personality of the painter.
It is designed to capture the attention of viewers using "glamorous clichés," such as the "girlish tilt of the head", the "dewy eyes", the "auburn curls" on the forehead, the lacy and ornamental "clots" of pigment of the garment, the slickness of the pictorial surface, the banal and sweet rosiness of the facial expression, and the presence of a "winy purple" background.
The attractive face of the woman in the painted picture was set to make the onlookers’ imagination float or wander "in reverie".
The characteristic of Luna's Mi Novia is similar to Félix Resurrección Hidalgo's scholarly portrait of A Girl Carrying a Flowerpot.
[1] According to rumours, this painting is haunted and cursed since Juan Luna was working on it when he killed his wife and mother-in-law using a shotgun due to his suspicions of infidelity.