I just gave myself over to the makeup and the primping.

A quick primping and she headed for the door.

I seldom allowed her to do more man was absolutely necessary, having neither the time nor the patience for prolonged primping.

Determined to impress the world, Russians have spared little excess in their civic primping.

Then a few years ago her husband stood in front of the mirror and imitated her nocturnal primping.

The hall where the daffodil jockeys were doing final primping was emergency-room tense.

Young women enjoy primping, too.

Eden understood what it felt like to be a pincushion, with all the primping and prodding subjected on her by the little modiste.

But she has begun to make peace with intensive primping because it doesn't just come with the territory, now it is the territory.

Please let us stop the primping by proxy, and let our daughters once again claw their own awkward, curious way into womanhood.

As Platee, he was a primping, prancing drag queen with a reckless disregard for the color and credibility of his wigs.

William smiled at the actors - their primping, their practiced, shallow attempts at seduction and eroticism.

And no primping, because the only mirror we have in the house is my faux-ivory hand mirror brought from home, which we all have to share.

It had been a day of frantic primping, as delayed parade watchers scurried home hoping not to turn into pumpkins before they picked up their finery.

On a simpler scale, we still have time to mass, in Hollywood, ideally, 200 years after men's hair powder was disfavored by the primping Founding Fathers.

Watch his primping, the way he hides a key in his pocket or the clever asides to suggest that the widow is not as gullible as she pretends.

Craig Jessup, the resident makeup artist for Kevyn Aucoin Beauty at Bendel's, said public primping has become a social event in and of itself.

He'd have to make certain Gesten had the bleaches and dyes ready; she might want a feather-tip job in addition to whatever other pampering and primping she desired.

This late-minute primping was appreciated by Gregory Rathe, another cycle enthusiast who spotted Ms. Kohns dismounting at Ear Inn.

Suzie's has the feel of a beauty salon, a temple of vehicular primping and gussying - especially now, with the salted roads and dastardly elements of winter at hand.

Davidson is snapping away with my instant camera and my film and the seven are lost in a primping frenzy, like German pesticide magnates having their Polaroid snapped by Andy Warhol.

Prompted by various medical reports of older beauty salon patrons suffering strokes shortly after a primping session, the U.M.D.N.J. team set out to study the so-called Beauty Parlor Stroke phenomenon.

The primping concluded as Jennifer took one last look at her face ("Oh, it looks so done," she said ruefully) and then donned a white satin brocade dress and white leather Capezio dance pumps.

His deep brown hair waved with an undulating neatness which suggested the primping of an adoring mother's fingers, his lips puckered sensually, the jowls were on the prowl but there was no denying the nose and its overall dignifying effect.

The following morning, I arose early and primped for him.

Was the girl she had come here to meet still primping, or too shy to face the company?

While dressing and primping, they also go over all of the most recent events.

You want to start primping up since you're getting married in a couple weeks."

The sisters were primping away as best they could at such short notice.

She had been downstairs already, waiting for him, after spending hours primping.

No reason to primp or put on a show.

I'll give you a few moments to primp, then we're off to see how good the actors are.

There is something about primping in public that calls up strong emotional reactions.

"With all my brothers to care for, I never learned how to primp.

Yet they soon started primping, as if for assignations of their own.

Actually, starting to come downstairs from a bedroom, where they have been primping.

She used the remaining thirty minutes of her shift to primp.

Two soldiers were primping at stools down from her, getting ready to make the big move.

They primped and preened in front of the mirror some more.

The residents took their seats at the front of the room, having clearly primped for the occasion.

The ladies were too intent upon necessary hours of primping to waste time so.

She was on the couch primping her hair, looking into a small vanity mirror.

We stood primping in front of the mirror talking about inconsequential things.

"I'm guessing you're not the kind of woman who takes two hours to primp and get ready to go out.

He should have known she'd want to primp before a looking glass, but it was the one thing he could not provide for her.

(Every woman ought to take some time out in the course of the day to primp and look pretty.

Jason and I primped for a moment and went to the front door.

He's primping himself a little lady, who doesn't know he exists.

Truly, she could have given a bit more care to 'primping'.