put lipstick on a pig vs titivate

put lipstick on a pig

verb
  • To superficially alter something in the hope of making it seem more appealing than it is in actuality. 

titivate

verb
  • To make small improvements or alterations to (one's appearance etc.); to add some finishing touches to, to spruce up or touch up. 

How often have the words put lipstick on a pig and titivate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )