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English citations of makeunder

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  • 2002 September 16, Reon Laudat, It's a Love Thang, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 238:
    Isaiah took in the details of the photo—Ebony’s fuschia angora sweater, glassy lip gloss, pastel-tinted eyelids, and overplucked brows. Makeover? More like she’d undergone a makeunder since that photo was snapped.
  • 2006 October, Dennis Lim, “Reviews: It's Showtime!”, in Spin, volume 22, number 10, →ISSN, page 93:
    They've wiped off the eyeliner, put the dandy suits in storage, and submitted to a makeunder — all band members, including formerly baby-faced frontman Brandon Flowers, now sport facial scruff and dress in keeping with the Wild West theme of the real Sam's Town.
  • 2008 June 1, Karen Yampolsky, Falling Out of Fashion, Kensington Books, page 193:
    But what was even more shocking was the complete makeunder we gave her for the shoot. Though Penny was a naturally beautiful woman, so much of it was hidden under her bleached, heavy-metal hair and make-up only a drag queen could love.
  • 2010 April 20, Robin Palmer, Yours Truly, Lucy B. Parker: Girl vs. Superstar, Book 1[1], Penguin, →ISBN:
    In her wig, the sweatshirt, the fake pimples, and the pair of Maya's plain-lens glasses she had just put on, you'd never know that Laurel Moses was Laurel Moses. In fact, with my makeover and her makeunder, you could almost now believe the two of us might be kind-of, sort-of friends.
  • 2011, Coni Masciave, Beauty Rehab: Your Guide to Feel Beautiful, Sexy, and Confident in Twenty-Eight Days, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 142:
    While some women need a makeover to add makeup, some women need a makeunder to take it down a notch.
  • 2011 October 18, Anna Lefler, The Chicktionary: From A-line to Z-snap, the words every woman should know, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 122:
    The typical candidate for a makeunder is a woman who applies her makeup with too liberal a hand, styles her hair in a distracting or unattractive manner, or wears clothes that could be described as unflattering or over the top. The ideal candidate for a makeunder does all three of these simultaneously, mostly likely while upending a bottle of perfume into her cleavage.
  • 2012 November 18, An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal (Bob's Burgers), season 3, episode 5, spoken by Tina Belcher (Dan Mintz):
    Thanks for the new outfits. Sometimes you need a makeunder.