firming
Growing more rigid
Firming describes the process of becoming more firm or solid.
Skin-care products promise firming effects, tightening loose skin.
In finance, a firming market shows strengthening prices: Oil prices are firming after last week's decline.
Firming up plans or arrangements means making them more definite: We're still firming up the details.
Strengthening muscles gradually
- tighteningMaking less loose
- liftingRaising something heavy
- contouringShaping with highlights, shadows
- plumpingMaking something fuller
smoothing · rejuvenating · elasticity · collagen · tautness · suppleness · resilience · sagging
Making more robust
- solidifyingBecoming rigid or fixed
- fortifyingMaking stronger or sturdier
- consolidatingCombining dispersed elements
- stabilizingMaking firm or constant
hardening · cementing · bolstering · securing · toughening · building · enhancing · shoring up
toning
Strengthening muscles gradually
- tighteningMaking less loose
- liftingRaising something heavy
- contouringShaping with highlights, shadows
plumping · smoothing · rejuvenating · elasticity · collagen · tautness · suppleness · resilience · sagging · hydrating
reinforcing
Making more robust
- solidifyingBecoming rigid or fixed
- fortifyingMaking stronger or sturdier
- consolidatingCombining dispersed elements
stabilizing · hardening · cementing · bolstering · securing · toughening · building · enhancing · shoring up · buttressing
- beautymakeup, cosmetics, lipstick, mascara, eyeliner
- beauty termsmatte, dewy, hydrating, moisturizing, smoothing
- toningabs, core, glutes, planks, squats
- Beauty Claimsglow, shine, shimmer, radiance, luminosity
- hardeninghardening, stiffening, solidification, solidifying, rigidifying
- gelling processesgelling, setting, congealing, thickening, coagulation
firmingsoftening
Becoming less firm
loosening · liquefying · melting · relaxing · slackening
firmingsoftening
Becoming less firm
sagging · loosening · slackening · atrophying · weakening
- firming creamSkincare for elasticity