💄 Cosmetics 🧬 Composition 📝 Replacement event

makeup

586 1.3

Products you put on your face to change how you look

noun
/ˈmeɪkʌp/

: maquillaje

She applied her makeup carefully before the performance.
wear makeup
hair and makeup
apply makeup

This right here takes my eye makeup off so easily.

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Examples

I have a good makeup artist!

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983)
Today I did a more natural makeup than usual.

#No_Filter (2022)
Put on some makeup and face the day.

Tati
Oh it's so nice to put on makeup and see clearly.
It's also going to set the makeup right here.
The hair, the makeup, the clothes.

Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013)
I want to do my makeup, bridal makeup for wedding.
Louise is still putting on her makeup, making sure it's perfect.

Fiction book (1991)
Dang, I really, really like my makeup today a lot.

Tati
You should thank Clarissa for doing your makeup.

Eating Miss Campbell (2022)

Synonyms

make-up

vsmakeup

139 2.0

Things people put on their face or body to change how they look

focuses mainly on face products like powder and lipstick

cosmetic

vsmakeup

60 3.5

A product you put on your body or face to improve your look

means a group of face products rather than one product

Antonyms

naturalness

2 3.9

Being genuine and not showing forced or fake feelings

How Made-Up

costumey

Informal

3 7.0

makeup

586 1.3

foundationless

7.6

Surface Forms

makeup singular

makeups plural

Morphology

makeup = make + up (transparent) = make + up

The noun derives directly from the phrasal verb 'make up' meaning to apply cosmetics; learners who know that verb can readily infer the noun.

Etymology

Makeup comes from the phrase make up, with make and up meaning to 'put on' or add to the face as actors do. So makeup is the products people use to change or improve how they look.