beat one's face

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English

Verb

beat one's face (third-person singular simple present beats one's face, present participle beating one's face, simple past beat one's face, past participle beaten one's face or beat one's face)

  1. (gay slang and African-American Vernacular) To apply makeup.
    • 2011, Natasha Johnigan, Unconditional, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 74:
      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.
    • 2016, Jane Larkworthy, “Tyra Banks Loves Instagram Brows, Contouring and Discovering New Models”, in W Magazine:
      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: see beat,‎ face.