visagiste

Borrowed from French visagiste.

visagiste (plural visagistes)

1. A make-up artist.
   • 1958, Vogue, volume 131, page 105:

     Ordinarily, my impulse would have been to call of all the re-making and go promptly to sleep, but before I firmed up this thought, the visagiste went to work on me with a large tuft of cotton […]

   • 1972 July, Harper's Bazaar, volume 105, page 36:

     What is a face-maker, a visagiste, a cosmetic artist? He—more often than she—is the creative talent behind a new look which will catch on and make us all wish to look like Alice in Wonderland or Mata Hari depending on the mood he's projecting.

From visage (“face”) +‎ -iste.

• IPA^(key): /vi.za.ʒist/

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visagiste m or f by sense (plural visagistes)

1. make-up artist

• → English: visagiste
• → German: Visagist

• “visagiste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

visagiste f

1. plural of visagista