vanitizing

Verb

vanitize (third-person singular simple present vanitizes, present participle vanitizing, simple past and past participle vanitized)

1. (ambitransitive) To embellish for reasons of vanity.
   • "I told her she was a great goose," said Goda, who like a sensible being was snugly tucked up in bed; "it is a great deal too cold to vanitize."1876, Fontnell S. Chad: A Reminiscence, J. Masters and Co., page 43, […] when I went up to administer to Carrie a small lecture on imprudence, the vain child was still at the glass, trying the effect...