le rouge à lèvres = the lipstick

‘rouge à lèvres’ literally means ‘red for lips’

le retard = the delay

No new french word for a few days?

‘Je suis en retard’ = ‘I was delayed’

un funambule = a ropewalker

The documentary ‘Man on Wire’ chronicles ‘ropewalker’ (=‘funambule’) Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Centre.

In 1973, about a year before the World Trade Centre walk, he performed a similar stunt in Sydney walking across two pillars of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2372173.htm

Do you ever feel you kind of do it metaphorically? say... at work?

le réveil = the alarm-clock

My Monday morning friend... no comment.

Numerous studies regularly emphasize the benefit of sleep:
A good link --> Harvard Medical School:
http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/benefits-of-sleep