The phrase "give it a makeover" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to transforming a thing or person, usually in a physical way, such as giving a room in a house a makeover or giving an old car a makeover. For example: Before my wedding day, I wanted to give my wardrobe a makeover to look my best.
The oven, a member of the National Toy Hall of Fame, uses a 100-watt bulb as its heat source, so Hasbro must give it a makeover.
After chuckling to myself, I decided to give it a makeover.
How would you give it a makeover for your generation?
Best Christmas tree: Charlie Brown's tiny, pitiful evergreen, before and after the Peanuts kids give it a makeover to cheer their disheartened pal, is the hands-down winner.
After the campus — built in 1977 — was passed over during the last bond go-around, district officials now are poised to give it a makeover in the $17 million to $19 million range.
Hillary Clinton referred to Bainimarama's government earlier this year as the "dictatorial regime that unfortunately is now in charge of Fiji," while Qorvis works to give it a makeover and outlets like HuffPost provide it with a global platform on which to spread its propaganda.
The quaint former whaling town caught up with the times, or the times caught up with the quaint former whaling town and gave it a makeover.
Harnessing YouTube, Facebook and celebrity endorsements, Curtis has taken what was once regarded as a naive pipedream to tax a slice of every financial trade and given it a makeover.
Now, though, the owners of the Millburn Mall are giving it a makeover, with a mind to earning it a spot of its own on the area shopping map.
It subsumed two other properties, one of them a cottage, when George II gave it a makeover in 1735 to become a tied super-cottage for Robert Walpole, Britain's first PM.
The premise is simple: charismatic presenters Lucy Alexander and Martin Roberts look round a battered old house going up for auction, stalk the buyer and then return months later to see if they've given it a makeover and bagged shedloads of profit.
