beat one's face

verb

Definitions

  1. To apply makeup.

    • Nicole took her time as she laid all her MAC cosmetics on the dresser in a neat row. After beating her face down she took off the ivory silk robe to hang it behind the door.
    • Sitting on the bathtub ledge in our tiny apt and watching my mom beat her face. My mom was a makeup junkie.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, face.

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