antimakeup
adjEtymology From anti- + makeup.
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Opposing the wearing of makeup.
- It is not only to makeup which this argument objects (after all, there is also a Western feminist antimakeup discourse) but also to any improper exposure, including that of the head.1995, Jane Marie Law, Religious Reflections on the Human Body, page 70:
- On the first night of the antimakeup crusade, policewomen kept close watch over the city's train stations. "Now go right back and wash your face," one of the policewomen told a rosy-cheeked 16-year-old coming out of a restroom.2010, Allan T. Duffin, History in Blue: