They soon had ruby-coloured stains around their mouths like badly applied lipstick.
Gold paint, badly applied Dutch gold leaf and other attempts at grandeur are usually failures.
Grannan's camera is sympathetic, but also unforgiving, capturing the heavy, badly applied makeup on these deeply wrinkled faces.
Alan, in spite of his heavy beard, is almost literally a giant baby, his soft-bellied body appearing swaddled in a sheet and, most memorably, in a jockstrap that looks like a badly applied diaper.
Glitter nail polishes and gold lipstick might sound like the kind of thing experimented with on your first discovery of make-up, but put aside those ill-advised notions of badly applied gloss – molten cosmetics are having a moment.
Once the "artist" had finished, I left as quickly as I could, sporting a badly applied bandage covering what, even some 15 years later, some people still refer to as my "really crap tattoo", and running 45 minutes late for work.
By this logic not always wrong, by the way, but badly applied in the majority of cases if we wonder why humans seem so willing to accept mere symbols of value in executing their commerce, we should look for examples of symbolic exchange in nature, and then postulate a common source or cause.
I also remind them that badly applied makeup is generally considered to be worse than no makeup at all, and that it's completely fine to skip it.
After seven grueling hours of waiting, a splint was quickly, rudely and badly applied and I was sent home with a note to see a surgeon.
With prolonged usage (>1 h), skin damages can occur if the skin is folded under a badly applied tourniquet.
