Fashion and Beauty Glossary
Accessories:
Adornments for clothing. Cosmetic surgery: surgical procedure to correct appearance. Cosmetics: make up products. Fashion: a style which is popular at a particular time, especially in clothes, hair…
Hairstyle:
The style in which someone´s hair is cut and arranged. Label: a piece of paper or other material which gives you information about the objects it is attached to. Look: the appearance of someone or something; a style or fashion. Make up: colored substances used on your face used to improve or change your appearance. Piercing: a hole made in your body for wearing jewelry. Tattoo: permanent image, pattern or word on the skin which is created by using needles to put color under the skin. Beauty product: cosmetics and materials made and sold for the purpose of enhancing the physical attractiveness of users. Style: a particular shape or design, especially of a person´s hair or clothes. Designer: a person who plans the look of something before being made by preparing drawings. Model: a person who wears clothes so that they can be photographed or shown to possible buyers. Fashion shows: a show for the public where models wear new styles or clothes. Trend: a new development in clothing, make up… Corset: a tight piece of underwear worn on the middle part of a woman´s body to make her waist appear smaller. Crinoline: a stiff frame worn under a woman´s skirt to give it a full appearance. Crakows: a style of shoes with extremely long toes. Stiff collar: a hard collar on a shirt worn by a wearer. Beauty salon: a place where your hair, face, and body can receive special treatments to improve their appearance. Catwalk: the long narrow stage that models walk along in a fashion show. Latest collection: related to the most fashionable and ultimate trendy clothes and accessories. Manicure: a treatment for the hands that involves making the skin feel softer and making nails look better. Pedicure: a beauty treatment for the feet that involves cutting and painting the nails.
Modernize:
To make something more modern. Criticize: to express disapproval of something or someone. Specialize: to spend most of your time studying one particular subject. Apologize: to tell someone that you are sorry for having done something that has. Fantasize: to think about something very pleasant that is unlikely to happen. Prioritize: to decide which of a group of things are the most important so that you can deal with them first. Sympathize: to understand and care about someone´s problems. Weaken: to become less strong, powerful, determined, or effective. Darken: to become dark. Flatten: to become level or thinner. Smarten: to become more clean, tidy, and stylish. Shorten: to become shorter. Lengthen: to make something longer. Sharpen: to make something sharp. Strengthen: to make something stronger or more effective. Simplify: to make something less complicated and therefore easier to understand or do. Horrify: to shock someone very much. Justify: to give a good reason for. Beautify: to improve the appearance of something or someone. Purify: to remove bad substances from something to make it pure. Ankle length: related to footwear or an item of clothing reaching your ankles. Average size: standard size regarded as usual. Badly dressed: dressed in an unsatisfactory, inadequate, or unsuccessful way. Broad-shouldered: having wide shoulders that do not slope. Clean-shaven: a man without a beard or mustache. Curly-haired: having hair that forms curls or ringlets. Dark-haired: having dark-colored hair. Dark-skinned: having brown or black skin. Fair-haired: having light-colored hair. Fair-skinned: having pale or relatively pale skin. Friendly-looking: having a kind and pleasant appearance. Heavily built: having a large, broad, and strong body. Knee length: related to an item of clothing reaching your knees. Natural-looking: natural in appearance, especially despite being artificial. Professional-looking: appearance which is appropriate to a skillful, competent person. Scruffy-looking: related to a shabby or untidy look. Shoulder length: related to hair reaching your shoulders. Smartly dressed: dressed in an attractively neat and stylish manner. Sporty-looking: casual yet attractively stylish manner. Well-dressed: wearing smart or fashionable clothes.