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"touch it up" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to make small corrections or improvements to something. Example: The painting was almost perfect, but the artist decided to touch it up by adding a few more details to the background.
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Or you can make your own: take a photo in its stencil creation view, touch it up, then set it as your stencil and shoot away.
Banksy had already been back to touch it up once.
Hopefully he will come back and touch it up again".
Painters don't create a painting and, two years later, want to touch it up just to give us the definitive version.
She uses Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion ($20), which she believes makes her eye shadow go on smoother and keeps her from having to touch it up throughout her long workday.
(She doesn't have a problem with fashion magazines touching up photos, by the way. "I think the more they touch it up the better. Smooth that one out!") Her new album, Necessary Evil, is for grown-ups.
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I thought about touching it up again on election night, 2008.
Mankiewicz could hardly improve on the most famous of all Hearst stories, so he merely touched it up a trifle.
Leonardo Da Vinci carted the Mona Lisa around with him for twenty years, touching it up until his death (and to think it started as a commission!).
Apply a small amount of rust arrestor on the chipped area before touching it up to prevent rust from spreading underneath your touch-up job.
Check your makeup in the mirror a couple times throughout the day, touching it up as necessary.
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