Makeup dreams are more related to unnamed people, more related to strangers, and more related to peers than dreams in general. They are less related to animals and less related to insects.

Dreams of makeup are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and much more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to fear and less related to hatred.

Makeup dreams are more related to work and more related to schools than dreams in general. They are less related to transportation, less related to natural places, and less related to magical places.

Dreams of makeup are more related to friendly acts and much more related to sex than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, much less related to disasters, and less related to death.

Makeup dreams are less related to lucid dreams, less related to sleep paralysis, and less related to bad dreams.

Dreams of makeup are more related to smelling, more related to taste, and more related to vision than dreams in general.

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience makeup in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about makeup in dreams. See how you feel about makeup now, in your waking life.

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. Makeup covers, so applying makeup can be thought of as covering up something. It can mean you are hiding or concealing something about yourself, such as personal flaws. The heavier the makeup, the more you are trying to conceal—especially when makeup is used to cover skin flaws. See: Hiding, Skin Makeup is part of growing up for females, a rite of passage. Some females begin using makeup regularly at around puberty, so it marks a time of life when childhood is left behind. For a female around that age, dreaming about makeup can symbolize trying out new aspects of her persona as a female between childhood and adulthood. Then for the rest of her life, any rite of passage can be symbolized through makeup, especially the application of it. For example, a woman dreams about stealing makeup from a store and trying to hide in the dressing room, but the attendant won’t allow her to enter because she looks like a boy. The dream sums up the dreamer’s experience as a teenager when her mom forbade her from wearing makeup and she was made to feel that she couldn’t be like the other girls her age. Stealing makeup symbolizes the feeling that she has to hide the fact that she uses it, even though she’s an adult, and generally feeling uncomfortable wearing it. The associations branch out to include subjects such as loss of innocence, sex appeal, and cultural ideals of beauty and femininity. Many personal associations can come into play when you dream about putting on makeup, especially if you regularly wear it. For example, makeup is associated with feminine sophistication. The more sophisticated the makeup, the more sophisticated the woman. Some women compare among themselves and judge each other on how well they use makeup, so the symbolism of makeup can connect with subjects such as feeling judged by appearance and how a woman compares with other women or lives up to cultural ideals. Using too much makeup can symbolize compensating for perceived weaknesses. See also: Actors, Beauty, Compensation, Disguises, Dolls, Faces, Hiding, Imposters, Lips, Masks, Skin