glam up

Verb

glam up (third-person singular simple present glams up, present participle glamming up, simple past and past participle glammed up)

1. (informal, transitive) To make (someone or something) more glamorous.
   • He would become absorbed in what he was doing and forget that they were going out to a reception at the City Hall or somewhere. Stella would appear at the study door all glammed up in her best coat and he would look up from his reading like a startled animal caught drinking at a watering hole.2017, Bernard MacLaverty, “Chapter 10”, in Midwinter Break, page 204
2. (informal, intransitive) To make oneself more glamorous.
   • Gettin' glammed up and sittin' on the fence now2007, Jules De Martino, Katie White, “That's Not My Name”, performed by The Ting Tings