"glossy life" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe a luxurious or glamorous lifestyle. Example: She was tired of her simple, ordinary life and longed for a glossy life filled with parties and expensive vacations.
A confoundingly striped mirror and a glossy, life-size photograph of the simulated view from a six-foot hole in the ground occasion reflections on being and nothingness (Johnson).
The two centenary publications I have most enjoyed this year have been Ken Bernard's cheap and cheery History of Ilkley RUFC and Ross Reyburn's glossy splendour Life at the Graveyard, recording life and laughs at Moseley's Ashfield CC.
But dyadic death, which refers both to suicide pacts and to homicide-suicides, is generally less glossy in life.
She becomes a successful lawyer and marries a wealthy banker named Frank but finds her glossy new life — with two beautiful children and a lovely home overlooking a park — empty and unsatisfying.
A few years ago, I was in Tokyo and went back to Shinko Music, which published the glossy Music Life and Rock Show magazines.
The 31-year-old spoke openly with the glossy about life in the public eye, what she "dislikes most about being a Kardashian" ("The judgment on us," she said), and a heartbreaking truth about why she thinks she has emerged as a fashion force as of late.
The near-identical circumstances of the two attacks left scant doubt that the same man was responsible, transforming a relatively mundane hotel robbery into a glossy real-life film noir, featuring call girls, upmarket hotels and an internet site where paid sex was marketed and where a killer – young, white and personable – chose his victims.
Still, glossy-magazine life had certain perks, and when presented with the chance to check out posh cars like library books, I ran with it.
And it's different than what we usually see – the glossy, larger than life, make-believe kind of story.
