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Makeup that convinces everyone you just returned from a vacation you didn't take.
means A cosmetic powder or cream, usually a shade darker than your skin, that you sweep onto cheeks and temples to fake a sun-kissed glow.
from Straightforward lineage: 'bronze' the metal, named for Brundisium (modern Brindisi, Italy), a port famed for its ancient metalwork, gave English the color word 'bronze' for that warm brownish sheen. Cosmetics companies tacked on the agent suffix '-er' in the 20th century to name the product that bronzes you — a tidy, literal coinage with no hidden twist.
- origin trick
- Coco Chanel made tans fashionable, bronzer followed decades later
- common mistake
- too much reads as dirt, not sun
- placement rule
- apply where sun naturally hits, not everywhere
- matte vs shimmer
- shimmer highlights, matte actually mimics real tan