How to Use airbrush in a Sentence

airbrush

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• The job of an airbrush painter is part graffiti artist and part sketch artist.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post, 28 May 2021
• Leave it to former House speaker John Boehner to drop the airbrush.
  — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2021
• There are a few tattoo booths — not airbrush tattoos, the real thing.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
• Alo's patented airbrush fabric lifts and supports the breasts and offers light support for both the studio and the street.
  — Lily Wohlner, Women's Health, 28 July 2023
• Then, using the contour lines as a guide, von Allmen would spend weeks using an airbrush to shade the hillsides with a fine mist of ink.
  — National Geographic, 16 Sep. 2016
• Still so pumped about this helmet can’t thank @katefegley1 and the guys @offaxispaint for doing such an amazing job @mcewenart does sick airbrush work with crazy detail!!
  — Michelle R. Martinelli, For The Win, 16 Feb. 2018
• Once the mask is primed and a base coat applied — usually white — the painter draws the artwork with an airbrush, pinstripe brush or similar fine tool.
  — Pat Borzi, New York Times, 13 May 2017
• And a special touch with perspective, detail and an airbrush.
  — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 20 Aug. 2017
• There are nagging questions, such as how many trips to the tanning bed (running in and out at lunchtime, say) or whether to go for airbrush tanning or spraying.
  — Alison Rose, Town & Country, 16 Dec. 2012
• Benefit's blurring face primer for airbrushed skin This stuff is like a real-time airbrush for your face.
  — Jessica Teich, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2018
• Andre Cisco, one of his three managers, first met Baker in Cleveland in the mid-’00s outside the airbrush shop where Baker worked.
  — Meaghan Garvey, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2022
• By high school, Luna was painting designs with an airbrush on clothing.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
• Several Idaho airbrush and pinstripe artists will sell garage art signs, license plates, etc.
  — Michelle Jenkins, idahostatesman, 8 June 2017
• Thirteen male models were given a stripe of custom lime green paint across their eyes using a Temptu airbrush device.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Dec. 2019
• Guests will also have the option to customize their merchandise at an airbrush station outside the truck.
  — Rebecca Hennes, Houston Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2019
• Mechanical bull rides and airbrush face painting will be available for $4 each.
  — Norma Cavazos, Dallas News, 4 May 2023
• Makeup artist Renny Vasquez kept her look minimal with an airbrush finish, a barely-there lip color, and a subtle highlight at the bridge of her nose.
  — Chelsea Avila, Allure, 3 Aug. 2022
• The kit comes with a handheld airbrush compressor and its components, and air pods for foundation, bronzer, blush, and highlighter.
  — Shalwah Evans, Essence, 2 Oct. 2019
• Benefit Salon: Win a bridal experience of custom hair and airbrush makeup for the day of the wedding in 2021. Includes bride and four bridesmaids.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 28 Apr. 2020
• Heidi Landesman’s sets are a feast of delights, from the clever act curtain — Beirstadt with an airbrush — to the lazy river cyclorama which bleeds into a set of stairs for Huck’s final exit.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2019
• Your skin will experience a bit of plumping from the airbrush polymers that are infused into the formula, which is a welcome side effect.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
• Along with a solid base coat of choice, aura nails consist of gradients created with an airbrush or with blooming gel polish.
  — Chelsea Avila, Allure, 16 Oct. 2022
• In part, the whimsy was a result of Mr. Grossman’s favored tool, the airbrush, which allowed him to effectively sculpt three-dimensional figures out of paint or ink.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2018
• So, unlike many oxygen facials, which mainly just blow oxygen at your face with an airbrush gun, this treatment uses your body’s own oxygen to make skin magic.
  — Leah Wyar, Cosmopolitan, 25 Aug. 2017
• One of the most common sunless tanning treatments is spray tanning, when a tanning formula is sprayed on a client either by a machine or by a technician via airbrush.
  — Maggie Maloney, Town & Country, 17 July 2019
• But---and this is where quantification comes in---anyone can tell you that there's a difference between a light airbrush to get those forehead pimples toned down and wholesale reshaping of limbs.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2011
• The entire ensemble is definitely the perfect statement outfit for a summer festival: The shorts and tank are a classic go-to look, and the addition of the boots and the airbrush design adds a fun, cheeky throwback vibe.
  — Kara Nesvig, Teen Vogue, 19 Aug. 2018
• From pencil and airbrush to oil painting and creating digitally in Photoshop, Graef has used just about every kind of tool to illustrate.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
• Both Lemper and Aaron are artists working in different mediums — from painting and tattooing for Lemper, to airbrush and photography for Aaron.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The Londoner, well-known for her technical superpowers and experimental approach, turned to the airbrush and a rainbow of MAC pigments.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2019

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airbrush

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• That photograph must have been airbrushed.
• Twigs donned a snake airbrushed on her body and frosty pink makeup.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 6 Oct. 2023
• The most talked-about teen influencer in the world doesn't airbrush her photos.
  — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 3 July 2019
• Its eyes are airbrushed in shadows, ringed by a white seam, like a solar eclipse.
  — Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
• In death, there is often a rush to canonize the deceased, airbrush away all their faults and sins.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2020
• One man, with his hand over his crotch, was airbrushed out in some reproductions.
  — Washington Post, latimes.com, 5 May 2018
• This multi-peptide serum is packed with a variety of them, all with the goal of giving skin that airbrushed glow.
  — Neha Tandon, womenshealthmag.com, 1 May 2023
• His work speaks of all sorts of influences, from the Franco-Belgian school to manga to steampunk to airbrush.
  — Andrew A. Smith Tribune News Service, Star Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021
• While questioning attempts to airbrush the past, Cleese expressed his support for the aims of the Black Lives Matter protest movement.
  — USA TODAY, 13 June 2020
• Markle confesses that one of her photoshoot pet peeves is when the freckles that dot her nose are retouched and airbrushed away.
  — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• Democrats are appalled at the effort to airbrush history.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
• The answer is that the country is hoping for a Beijing 2008 Olympics moment – a chance to airbrush its human rights abuses and shine on a global stage.
  — Roger Bennett and Tommy Vietor, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
• Trump has, meanwhile, launched a new effort to airbrush his own disastrous neglect of the crisis while in office.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 10 Aug. 2021
• Next to a bushel of labias, which resemble dark-pink wood-ear mushrooms, sits a bundle of penises waiting to have veins airbrushed.
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 13 May 2018
• More chains are adding plus sizes, using models with diverse body types or shunning airbrushing in ads.
  — Sarah Halzack | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
• The neutral, low-key makeup look for the shoot was important to Markle, who has been frustrated in the past by her freckles being covered up or airbrushed.
  — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• In a world that places a premium on looking perfect, even the tiniest body blemish gets airbrushed or filtered out of photos.
  — Julia Naftulin, Health.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• Jameela Jamil is known for not taking any BS and calling other celebrities out for airbrushing their photos.
  — Christina Oehler, Health.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• Any pain or insecurity of theirs was airbrushed away, erased by the opulence of a Versace gown or the structure of an Azzedine Alaïa dress.
  — Dina Gachman, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2023
• The one change, the vital one, will be to airbrush over the Redskins logo, the profile of a native North American, on the helmet and mask over it with each player’s uniform number.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2020
• In the past year, Kincaid has turned her focus to airbrush art, after studying under fellow nail artist Lila Robles.
  — Michella Oré, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2021
• By airbrushing a small circle in the center of each nail, you're left with a beautiful gradient design.
  — Tasha Nicole Smith, ELLE, 26 July 2023
• There's no shame in sometimes using Facetune or other airbrushing apps to enhance your selfies, but what if that was all your selfies, all the time?
  — Emily Wang, Allure, 28 Sep. 2018
• It cannot be airbrushed or filtered or otherwise altered.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• Then, Kerwin would go in with three prosthetic pieces to help conceal de Armas's natural hairline and airbrush them to match her skin tone.
  — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 30 Aug. 2022
• While there are some new details in the telling, the net effect leaves the Smith that people didn’t know, other than those meticulously airbrushed photo spreads, largely untouched.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 16 May 2023
• And, as other entities in the fashion world have been airbrushed and transformed over the last five decades, its brown-kraft-paper visage has had no significant face-lifts.
  — Hilary Reid, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The vast costume rental wardrobe, one of the largest collections of vintage clothing in the country, has a three-unit-wide stucco facade airbrushed with murals of ghosts and mythical creatures.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2018
• Meanwhile, hydrolyzed collagen helps airbrush out any fine lines, and caffeine shakes out that heavy feeling on your lids from an early morning.
  — Sam Peters, ELLE, 14 Nov. 2022
• Guests also received complimentary bandanas, hats and t-shirts, which were airbrushed on-site by an artist.
  — Matt Tighe, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2023

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