Makeup when cycling?

[Trek420]

I can't sketch or paint

Yes you can draw Fashion is art, it's personal expression, whether jeans and t'shirts or dress and high heels.

Have fun with it.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I don't wear much makeup anymore.
Chapstick and sunscreen are important protection for me though.

I figure if you wear enough makeup that it becomes an issue or makes a mess when you're biking, then the solution is obviously to wear less.
Would you wear makeup to go swimming in a pool or at the beach? In a sauna?

[VeloVT]

If I'm going for a run or a ride at the end of the day and I'm wearing makeup, I will actually wash my face before going out. I can't stand exercising in makeup. Yuck . I don't wear it to the gym either (and will wash it off prior to working out if I've come wearing makeup).

[firenze11]

I'm very fair as well. With my blonde eyebrows and lashes I feel I look awful without mascara. So I usually have it on. I also tend to wear foundation whenever I leave the house. If I go to the gym or am going to being seeing people when I workout I'll put foundation and mascara on. If not, then I won't It's more because I think I look better with them on, I'd prefer not to wear them at all when working out. I like to wear make-up day to day, though, just because I like it and I think it makes me look and feel pretty.

I also used to ride horses competitively and would ride in some A circuit shows. I didn't ride with a big huge ribbon-hogging barn and was always envious of the girls who looked so perfectly put together on their horses. Of course they had grooms and Moms who did their hair and makeup. My Mom and I were too busy rushing from class to class trying to get the horse tacked up, spraying him so he looked shiny, blacking his hooves and nose, etc. to get me looking like a model.

Maybe that's why I wear some makeup when working out in public now. . .I was scarred by my no-makeup riding years

[lph]

If I'm going for a run or a ride at the end of the day and I'm wearing makeup, I will actually wash my face before going out. I can't stand exercising in makeup. Yuck . I don't wear it to the gym either (and will wash it off prior to working out if I've come wearing makeup).

Yep, me too. I have nothing against wearing make-up, and will gladly make myself look gorgeous for a special event but I can't stand the feeling of sweating through it. Just freaks me out.

[Starfish]

but I can't stand the feeling of sweating through it. Just freaks me out.

Exercising when I already have makeup on for one reason or another is no longer a problem for me since I started using mineral powder makeup. Really is different than sweating through liquid or other traditional foundation.

[Crankin]

Yes, this started out as a question. But I notice that some (not necessarily on this list) people think that wearing or not wearing make up makes some kind of political statement. I think most people here understand what I mean.
For example, quite a few years ago, I met someone in a social situation where we were introduced by a mutual acquaintance, someone I worked with. This person said to me,"You work? You always look so put together with make up and everything." I don't know, it seemed as if she were implying that I must be some pampered woman who did nothing all day but sit around and put my make up on. That comment stuck with me.
I did not mean to be offensive...

[Velobambina]

Robin --- I didn't take what you said as offensive, and I agree that the thread has drifted.

I wore eye make up in my 20s but once I got more serious about my athletics, I didn't have the time or inclination to be bothered with it. I could never wear foundation or lipstick due to my sensitive skin.

Each to her own! I can see the appeal of it but if I wore it, I'd forget I had it on and end up smearing it. With age, I've become more of a minimalist---air dry hair style, sunscreen & lip balm only, etc.

[lauraelmore1033]

Yes, this started out as a question. But I notice that some (not necessarily on this list) people think that wearing or not wearing make up makes some kind of political statement. I think most people here understand what I mean.
For example, quite a few years ago, I met someone in a social situation where we were introduced by a mutual acquaintance, someone I worked with. This person said to me,"You work? You always look so put together with make up and everything." I don't know, it seemed as if she were implying that I must be some pampered woman who did nothing all day but sit around and put my make up on. That comment stuck with me.
I did not mean to be offensive...

Now, I would have taken that "you work?" comment to mean that you looked very professional all the time.

I don't like to wear makeup myself, and I am rather innept at applying it, so I wouldn't say the choice not to bother was political. I sweat like you wouldn't believe, so the thought of riding or exercising in it is horrific. I usually feel defensive about the choice not to wear makeup--since I perceive myself to be in the minority. (well, that and the fact that my mother attacks me relentlessly when I don't....)

[Jolt]

For example, quite a few years ago, I met someone in a social situation where we were introduced by a mutual acquaintance, someone I worked with. This person said to me,"You work? You always look so put together with make up and everything." I don't know, it seemed as if she were implying that I must be some pampered woman who did nothing all day but sit around and put my make up on. That comment stuck with me.
I did not mean to be offensive...

Wow, what a rude comment! And odd, because for a lot of women work is a reason to make an effort to look put-together and professional. Personally, I hardly ever wear makeup because I just don't like to mess with it and I don't like the feeling of having all sorts of gunk on, so I only put it on for formal occasions and then not that much. Therefore I'm not someone you'd be likely to see with makeup on while on the bike, running etc.

[sundial]

Exercising when I already have makeup on for one reason or another is no longer a problem for me since I started using mineral powder makeup. Really is different than sweating through liquid or other traditional foundation.

If I had to wear make-up before my workout, this would be my choice too. I learned that my red face, smeared mascara, and smudgy eyeliner bought me a ticket to the vampire convention.

[OakLeaf]

For a few years there I wore a little makeup on "special" occasions, but I kind of forgot how to put it on, and now when I try it's such a disaster that I stopped bothering.

There were years when I liked to tell myself it was a political statement... these days I'm more likely to say it's laziness... but the truth is that I had active discouragement from my family when I was a teenager, and never had the social support to learn how to put my face on. It's just another of the social skills I don't have , and one that wasn't covered in group therapy, either