Polish: kompozycja plastycznaEnglish translation: putting a look together // composing a look 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | Polish term or phrase: | kompozycja plastyczna | | English translation: | putting a look together // composing a look | | Entered by: | Caryl Swift |
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Cosmetics, Beauty / | | Polish term or phrase: kompozycja plastyczna | przedmiot w studium zdrowia i urody
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wiek a dobrór kosmetyków
kompozycja plastyczna
najnowsze trendy w makijażu
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| | Clarification request(s) and responsemakawa: 10:06am Sep 3, 2007: Caryl, unfortunatelly, I don't know what the subject covers. Anyway, I still don't understand why you think it should be rendered as "composing a look". If I were to translate it literally, it would be "artistic arrangement". Do you believe this is what they study at school of health and beauty? TIA
Caryl Swift: 10:11am Sep 3, 2007: IMO, 'artistic arrangement' is what we do with flowers and furniture. Please have a look at some of the websites in the references I gave you and you'll see that in beauty (and fashion, for that matter), people (books/magazines/product manufactures talk
Caryl Swift: 10:13am Sep 3, 2007: about 'a look' and about 'putting together a look'. I've already explained why I suggested 'composing' rather than 'putting together'. One is formal in register. The other isn't. I have never yet heard of anyone artically arranging someone's face. To me
Caryl Swift: 10:13am Sep 3, 2007: 'artistically' - sorry. To me that sounds like a euphemism for beating them up.
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| | composing a look | Explanation:
In fact, in more common would be:
'putting a look together // putting together a look'
However, that's the language of beauty magazines and the beauty pages of general magazines and it's not very formal. What I've suggested above is a more formal (though possibly less commonly-used) variant.
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| composing a look
Explanation:
In fact, in more common would be:
'putting a look together // putting together a look'
However, that's the language of beauty magazines and the beauty pages of general magazines and it's not very formal. What I've suggested above is a more formal (though possibly less commonly-used) variant.
http://tinyurl.com/2rfv3x
http://tinyurl.com/2qryuo
| Caryl Swift
Poland
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