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* ImprobableSelfMaintenance: Characters remain bizarrely well-groomed and good-looking despite living in circumstances that should make it difficult or impossible to maintain their appearance.
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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Makeup and natural beauty in fiction is used for signifying roles as good guys.
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* BeautyInversion: Makeup is used to make an actor look uglier for a role.
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* CoveredInKisses: A ton of lipstick marks, to indicate being the target for a lot of affection.
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* SkintoneDisguise: A non-human needs to make their skin look less conspicous.
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* PrimpOfContempt: A character fixes their makeup, nails, or hair to signify apathy.
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* MakeoverFailure

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* MakeoverFailureMakeoverFail: A makeover has the opposite of its intended effect.
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* MakeoverFailure
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* JerksUseBodySpray: Use (and especially overuse) of body spray marks a male character as a {{Jerkass}}.
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* AnticipatoryLipstick: Using lipstick in anticipation of kissing someone.
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* AnticipatoryBreathSpray: Using breath spray in anticipation of being kissed.
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* LipstickMark: Lipstick on your cheek or collarbone reveals YourCheatingHeart.

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* LipstickMark: Lipstick on your cheek or collarbone reveals YourCheatingHeart.adultery.
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* MakeupWeapon: Weaponized cosmetics.
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Tropes about cosmetics, such as lipstick, mascara, blush, face powder, perfume.

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Tropes about cosmetics, such as lipstick, mascara, blush, face powder, and perfume.



* CosmeticCatastrophe
* CosmeticHorror
* CucumberFacial
* DruggedLipstick
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow
* {{Guyliner}}
* LipstickAndLoadMontage
* LipstickMark
* MakeUpIsEvil
* {{Perfumigation}}
* TattooSharpie
* ThisMeansWarpaint
* TribalFacePaint
* UncannyValleyMakeup
* WakeupMakeup
* WeWillNotUseStageMakeUpInTheFuture
* YourMakeupIsRunning

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* CosmeticCatastrophe
CosmeticCatastrophe: A girl experiments with makeup for the first time, with negative consequences.
* CosmeticHorror
CosmeticHorror: Horrifying things done for beauty.
* CucumberFacial
CucumberFacial: A high-class spa treatment involving cucumbers and facials.
* DruggedLipstick
DruggedLipstick: A character, usually a woman, wears lipstick with some sort of drug or poison in it.
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow
ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow: Villains or other evil characters wearing excessive, dark-colored makeup on and around their eyes.
* {{Guyliner}}
{{Guyliner}}: Guy wearing eyeliner.
* LipstickAndLoadMontage
LipstickAndLoadMontage: The heroine puts on her clothes and makeup while preparing for some big event.
* LipstickMark
LipstickMark: Lipstick on your cheek or collarbone reveals YourCheatingHeart.
* MakeUpIsEvil
MakeupIsEvil: Make-up in fiction as a sign of being evil.
* {{Perfumigation}}
{{Perfumigation}}: A character creating or wearing perfume, cologne, or other kind of scent which they think is great, but it actually draws reactions of revulsion from others.
* TattooSharpie
TattooSharpie: When a permanent marker is permanent, even on skin.
* ThisMeansWarpaint
ThisMeansWarpaint: Just before a conflict, a character will take some sort of paint — or improvise with something closer to hand like mud or ashes — and apply it just below the eyes.
* TribalFacePaint
TribalFacePaint: HollywoodNatives with exotic face paint patterns.
* UncannyValleyMakeup
UncannyValleyMakeup: Excessive or extra makeup giving someone an unsettling appearance.
* WakeupMakeup
WakeupMakeup: When characters get out of bed in the morning perfectly groomed.
* WeWillNotUseStageMakeUpInTheFuture
WeWillNotUseStageMakeUpInTheFuture: Using surgery to pass oneself off as an alien or something similar.
* YourMakeupIsRunning YourMakeupIsRunning: Mascara, or makeup in general, starts bleeding when you cry.
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* CosmeticHorror
* CucumberFacial
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* {{Perfumigation}}
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* TattooSharpie

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* MyToenailsAreDrying

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* MakeUpIsEvil

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* MakeUpIsEvil MakeUpIsEvil
* MyToenailsAreDrying
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* TribalFacePaint
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* ThisMeansWarpaint
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Tropes about cosmetics, such as lipstick, mascara, blush, face powder, perfume.

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* CosmeticCatastrophe
* DruggedLipstick
* ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow
* {{Guyliner}}
* LipstickAndLoadMontage
* LipstickMark
* MakeUpIsEvil
* UncannyValleyMakeup
* WakeupMakeup
* WeWillNotUseStageMakeUpInTheFuture
* YourMakeupIsRunning
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