Cosmetics put together

Usage examples of make-up.

Now she stood at the head of the stairs, bleary eyed, make-up smeared, hair hanging straggly and uncombed, not looking at all her usual self.

For the chief of staff, the great and famous surgeon, the veritable emperor of that small, intensely circumscribed and terribly important world, Dr Brule Hatterick, had frowned on make-up on the faces of his nurses.

Little Ivan it was, anxiously searching the back-alley bars, who found Buffo still on his feet, though wavering, and led him back to Clown Alley, there to settle him on an upturned stool before a rectangle of cracked mirrors, where Buffo flailed about, wriggled, moaned and struggled to prevent Grik and Grok repairing the ravages his debauch had made upon his make-up.

I drove while Cece reapplied her China Rouge lipstick and freshened her make-up.

A couple of brawny supers carried Mama on stage in Act Four, wrapped in a shroud, tipped her into the cellarage amidst displays of grief from all concerned but up she would pop at curtain-call having shaken the dust off her graveclothes and touched up her eye make-up, to curtsy with the rest of the resurrected immortals, all of whom, even Prince Hamlet himself, turned out, in the end, to be just as un-dead as she.

Soft dabbers applied make-up, plastic fingers set the hair, perfumed sprays solidified the set with chemicals.

She wore a velvet gown of midnight blue and just the right amount of make-up to highlight her eyes, and she already knew from the way the young king had stared at her that he was attracted to her.

Their gig at the Astoria was one of three make-up gigs for the London area.

He was wearing orangey panstick make-up to make himself look healthier on color TV, and his white hair was combed into a flowing mane.

Twice now, after Justin was sleeping, she had armed herself with a copy of the script, put on a crisp, tailored robe and just enough make-up, and tapped at the door of the Empire room.

Huddled in the rear seat of the autorickshaws with Deepti, I wore a smog mask and goggles to protect my delicate eye make-up.

Due to its intermediate social position and heterogeneous make-up, the middle class is incapable of playing an independent political role: it is forced to either support the bourgeoisie or the proletariat.

Although his eyes are an impure blue, while mine are the colour generally described as hazel, the difference is not noticeable, and again we can use theatrical make-up to misdirect attention.

She ran upstairs to get her mother, and once she was sure that a protesting Margaret Meadows was safely installed in the bathroom in order to apply her obligatory layers of make-up, Karen ran downstairs again to make DS Malone and DC Parkin tea while they waited.

He went to the reception line while she went through it and then to restyle her hair and fix her make-up.