schoolgirl

schoolgirl complexion

Very clean, healthy, unblemished, youthful skin. All of these beauty products try to convince you that they'll give you a schoolgirl complexion, but it's all a total con job. What's your secret for keeping that schoolgirl complexion of yours?
See also: complexion, schoolgirl
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

schoolgirl complexion

Fresh, glowing, unblemished skin, as in She's fifty but she still has her schoolgirl complexion. This expression, alluding to the beauty of young skin, was invented for an advertising campaign for Palmolive Soap, which ran from about 1923 through the 1930s and claimed to preserve one's schoolgirl complexion.
See also: complexion, schoolgirl
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

schoolgirl complexion, a

Beautiful skin and coloring, without lines, wrinkles, or other signs of aging. This term owes its origin to the advertising campaigns for Palmolive soap, an American product. Allegedly the soap would give or preserve “that schoolgirl complexion,” a slogan used from about 1923 through the 1930s. An earlier version was peach-bloom complexion, used by Emerson in an 1860 essay (Conduct of Life: Beauty) and surviving in a still current term, peaches-and-cream complexion.
See also: schoolgirl
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • schoolgirl complexion
  • schoolgirl complexion, a
  • put the roses back in (one's) cheeks
  • put the roses back in your cheeks
  • buy in
  • change (someone's) mind
  • wear (one's) years well
  • white as snow
  • (as) white as snow
  • (as) white as the driven snow
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Specialist police divers in black wetsuits and breathing apparatus were taking it in turns to comb the west London waterway where the schoolgirl was last spotted 13 days ago.
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Crash sailor 'was urged to go faster'
On Wednesday at around 4pm on Tollesby Road near Cleveland College of Art and Design a man approached an 11-year-old schoolgirl.
Police release e-fit of suspect
THE house where schoolgirl Tia Sharp was murdered and hidden in the loft is being demolished.
Tia murder house to be knocked down
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Summary: UAE Foreign Minister Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan has called teenage schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai shot by the Taleban in Pakistan an inspiration for the UAE to reject extremism and intolerance.
Malala inspires UAE to reject extremism
People all over the world are praying for the recovery of Malalai Yousufzai, a 14-year-old Pashtun Pakistani schoolgirl, who was shot in the head by Pashtun Pakistani Taleban gunmen for speaking out for girls' education.
Challenges remain