Makeup when cycling?

[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.

[Starfish]

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.

Oh, but beautiful silver hair can look so amazing! I certainly have known women who had gorgeous silver hair, who could easily have also pulled off coloring back to blond or brown or whatever...but the silver looked so chic!

IMO, whether or not silver hair looks older or tired-er or whatever all depends on the shade, the cut, the gloss, the person's skin, expression, style, etc. I've seen it go both ways...sometimes folks look way more youthful with colored hair...sometimes much better with silver!

ETA: Just caught myself...I see I have, above, equated "youthful" with "better." What I mean is, sometimes the colored hair looks more radiant and vital, and sometimes the silver hair looks more radiant and vital!

[firenze11]

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.

Oooh I think silver hair can be so beautiful. My Mom has a friend who dyes her hair dark dark brown but as soon as her roots show you can see her hair is now almost all salt and pepper silver. The dye actually makes her look older. Maybe it's different for different people, but silver and white doesn't automatically = old, that's for sure! (At least in my opinion )

[OakLeaf]

Ah, see, now we're getting into one of those vanities I'm conflicted about . My hair's been going quickly grey in the last year or so. I'm not emotionally ready for color yet - and I haven't researched whether there even are any color treatments that are safe for my stylist, myself and the environment - but I'm definitely thinking about it every time I look in the mirror

[SouthernBelle]

I originally started coloring my hair, not because of the grey, but because of what the sun did to my brown. That was back in my 20s.

A few years ago, when my hair was short, I went natural. But there wasn't enough grey yet. My natural brown tends to get orange, so it wasn't a great look.

But as my hair dresser says, "oh, you've got the good color grey!"

Plus when it's grown in a bit more, they are going to special order a shampoo for me that keeps the yellow out and helps it be all sparkly.