maquillage

Perhaps this is the point; perhaps Anshaw means to shake us awake from our little narcissisms, our devout solipsisms, our daily applications of principled maquillage.

She has to have four pre-red-carpet sessions with the stylist for hair, maquillage and gown, each lasting two or three hours.

Although in many respects an unknown quantity, the new head of state would not dream of being so un-French as to ignore the demands of his maquillage.

It was a private ritual, this morning maquillage, undertaken in public.

That strong use of maquillage is part of the striking element of Romantic self-dramatizing in her stage personality.