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  2. Cosmetics - Wikipedia

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    The term "mineral makeup" applies to a category of face makeup, including foundation, eye shadow, blush, and bronzer, made with loose, dry mineral powders. These powders are often mixed with oil-water emulsions. Lipsticks, liquid foundations, and other liquid cosmetics, as well as compressed makeups such as eye shadow and blush in compacts, are ...

  3. Make-up artist - Wikipedia

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    Makeup artist backstage at the Lee Matthews show, Spring/Summer 2007 Australia Fashion Week. A make-up artist, also called a makeup artist, and often shortened to MUA, is an artist whose medium is the human body, applying makeup and prosthetics on others for theatre, television, film, fashion, magazines and other similar productions including all aspects of the modeling industry.

  4. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus or synonym dictionary lists similar or related words; these are often, but not always, synonyms. [15] The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym.

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  6. Foundation (cosmetics) - Wikipedia

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    Queen Victoria abhorred make-up and deemed that it was only appropriate for prostitutes and loose women to wear it. It was only acceptable for actors or actresses to wear make-up. In the late 19th century, women would apply a whitening mixture made out of zinc oxide, mercury, lead, nitrate of silver, and acids.

  7. Makeover - Wikipedia

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    There are several experts who perform the art of makeovers. Usually makeover artists specialize in hair styling, make-up or clothing. "The Makeover Guy" is a registered trademark for author and makeover expert Christopher Hopkins who is known for his television head-to-toe makeovers.

  8. Permanent makeup - Wikipedia

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    Permanent makeup: before, immediately after, and healed – brow, eyeliner, and lip procedures. Permanent makeup, also known as permanent cosmetics, derma-pigmentation, micro-pigmentation, semi-permanent makeup and cosmetic tattooing, [1] is a cosmetic technique which employs tattooing techniques to replicate the appearance of traditional makeup.

  9. Kohl (cosmetics) - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic word cognates with Syriac-Aramaic word כוחלא / ܟܘܚܠܐ kuḥla. Both words derived from Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 guẖlu(m) meaning stibnite. The English word alcohol is a loan of the Arabic word (via Middle Latin and French; originally in the sense "powder of antimony". The modern meaning is from the 18th century).