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# The Makeup Artist
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-makeup-artist/
- Published: 2021-07-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-16T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: You won’t look a day over twenty It’ll cost you but hardly a penny Putting pearls on a pig Not the easiest gig But lipstick? Of that we have plenty
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Limerick, Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

You won’t look a day over twenty  
It’ll cost you but hardly a penny  
Putting pearls on a pig  
Not the easiest gig  
But lipstick? Of that we have plenty

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2782867-The-Lipstick-Limerick---Fun-write