Makeup when cycling?

[surgtech1956]

During the winter months I wear a little base to work just to give me a little color. Once I get outside - nothing but chapstick and sunscreen.

[mimitabby]

neither my husband nor myself wear makeup. I tried it in high school and all it ever did was smear.

I yam what i yam. Oh, but I dye my hair.

[Zen]

I yam what i yam. Oh, but I dye my hair.

NoNoNo, you don't dye your hair - you color enhance it

[emily_in_nc]

I'll often put on a little subtle shade of lipstick for riding on the weekends since my lips are very pale. I know it doesn't stay on for too long, but at least I can start out feeling not so pale. Lots of sunscreen of course! No mascara as I sweat a lot in my face, and it would just smear.

If I ride after work, I wear the makeup I wore to work (I use a light hand), which is usually pretty much gone. Lip balm always!

Emily

[Bron]

I don´t leave the house without a bit of concealer to hide any blotches on my face. Apart from that, just sunscreen.
I actually admire women who can manage to look perfectly turned out every single day, but I have to face the fact that I am not one of them.

[Starfish]

neither my husband nor myself wear makeup.

Oh, I know this is off topic, but it brought back a memory for me that makes me smile, about my dad whom I lost last year.

He was quite handsome throughout his life, and although never came across as vain to me, in his 70's he started to dislike how white his eyebrows became. One day my mom handed him her eyebrow pencil, and he tried it! Until he died at 86, every morning after he shaved he stood in the mirror carefully touching up his eyebrows!

It just makes me smile to think of my old dad, after he had gotten thin and a bit feeble, deaf in both ears and withdrawing from the world...but apparently looking past the fact of his wrinkled skin, disappearing butt, changing features, etc, to believe that touched up eyebrows kept him looking great! We human beings are funny creatures, huh?

OK...back to your regularly scheduled thread...thanks for indulging this detour! Kinda missing my dad, I guess.

[SouthernBelle]

No worries, Starfish. That's a cute story.

[Zen]

That made me smile too. Wonder what little vanities I'll be doing at that age?

[SouthernBelle]

That made me smile too. Wonder what little vanities I'll be doing at that age?

Brazilian wax.

[Zen]

Brazilian wax.

Oh dear!

[Starfish]

That made me smile too. Wonder what little vanities I'll be doing at that age?

Hel!, wondering what vanities I'm doing now that have others shaking their heads at me...

[SouthernBelle]

Reminds me. I'm busy growing my hair out to it's natural color, silver and white. A friend, who is about 12 years older than me, thinks this is just awful! She's says it will make me look old. She's still quite blonde.