Makeup

[cindysue]

I'm lucky if I remember to wear make-up to a job interview.

But lately I feel like I'm starting to show my age (35), so I'll probably think about it more often. Maybe after I graduate and start wearing suits to work...

I'd probably never wear makeup on the bike.....

[alpinerabbit]

NO makeup for this rabbit, ever, just tossed the two hopeful products I once bought in boredom at the airport. Makeup, lipstick, etc actually goes rancid on me as I do not use any I buy. I hate sticky stuff on my face.



I could not imagine sweating under makeup. Wiping it around, getting anything under the contacts I wear only for riding, tears streaming on downhill rides - yikes.

I do need to start wearing sunblock this year when I go riding regularly. I need yet to find one that is not sticky and smelly. Neutrogena SPF 15(?) moisturizer is what I have right now.

yah I'mma dig the tanlines this year. I tan easily. I am most looking forward to the golf glove tan. hehehe. Only I don't play golf!

[DeniseGoldberg]

I do need to start wearing sunblock this year when I go riding regularly. I need yet to find one that is not sticky and smelly. Neutrogena SPF 15(?) moisturizer is what I have right now.

I have no idea what kind of overlap there is between products in North America and in Europe. I've found that I'm happiest with gel (as opposed to cream) sunscreens. Don't know if you can find these in your neck of the woods, but I prefer these two products - and neither of them is sticky or has a "smell": My favorite is PreSun Ultra Gel (SPF30), and my backup is Coppertone Sport Sunblock Gel.

--- Denise

[bikerchick68]

LOL at this thread... I was riding a century and two women came walking to the bathroom line, perfectly made up and looking like they had yet to break a sweat... this was 53 miles in... I looked like I'd been hit by a truck... that backed up to be sure the job was complete!!! LOL

these women even had pretty earrings on... ah well, guess it didn't inspire me that much cause I still go out sans makeup! I do well to remember sunscreen... gotta work on that this year.

I need to find a sunscreen that stays put tho... not one that rolls into my eyes when I sweat! That stuff STINGS!!!

the one thing I wear consistently is lip balm...

[bcipam]

I don't wear all that much makeup as it is but on the weekends I still put on brow and eye liner, a little shadow and lip gloss but no face makeup, only moisturizer and sun screen. I have a good friend that always shows up with full makeup, lipstick, eye makeup and after our rides she looks alittle scary - lipstick and eye liner all askewed, makeup running. Bad enough so I know I don't want to look that way. If going out for a ride alone, I usually clean my face, put on sun screen and go. I think it better for the pores not to have all that makeup on.

PS: But I always wear my earrings !

[Trek420]

bcipam "I have a good friend that ....after our rides she looks a little scary - lipstick and eye liner all askewed, makeup running."

'fraid I'd look like that BEFORE the ride if I put makeup on

sunscreen (I like Nivea), chapstick, road id, earings, that's it.

[Grog]

Earrings: I don't remember when in my childhood, must have been around physical education class, heard of another girl who tore her earlobe where her earring had been in a fall or something similar. I sometimes look at the earrings box before I leave for a ride, and then I remember about that and take them off. If I fell off my bike or my helmet straps got stuck in the earrings somehow or or or..... I just don't do it, but frankly I don't think the risk is very important...

Sunscreen: I don't apply any over the eyes because my helmet covers my forehead pretty well anyway. Depending on how I manage my hair, I may put some on my scalp (if I part the hair in two to make pigtails)... Someone on this board last Summer suggested lip balm (the stick type) in eyebrows to prevent sunscreen running in the eyes. I never tried, but it sort of makes sense.

Dreaming of the Sun already...

[annie]

Sunscreen on my face. Always. I have fair, freckled skin and don't need to burn! Moisturizer, too. But that goes on every morning, regardless. So does mascara, just a light coat. It's a habit. If I forget, I feel naked.
I have to confess to lipstick, too. I love Burt's Bees lip gloss. It's a moisturizer as much as a color. None of this runs or streaks when I ride and sweat...... if it did, it'd be out. My girlfriends that I ride with - we have a favorite saying, sort of a joke. "You can always do lips!" Meaning it's so easy, why not? I guess we're all a little vain. I admit it. But I'm content that way, it does not affect my riding, so what the he**!

annie

[Brandi]

LOL at this thread... I was riding a century and two women came walking to the bathroom line, perfectly made up and looking like they had yet to break a sweat... this was 53 miles in... I looked like I'd been hit by a truck... that backed up to be sure the job was complete!!! LOL

these women even had pretty earrings on... ah well, guess it didn't inspire me that much cause I still go out sans makeup! I do well to remember sunscreen... gotta work on that this year.

I need to find a sunscreen that stays put tho... not one that rolls into my eyes when I sweat! That stuff STINGS!!!

the one thing I wear consistently is lip balm...

I would like to recommend surfer's sun block. I get sun block from my local surf shop. It is 45. My dermatolagist last year said it's a must since I work outside so much and bike. It's good stuff,won't get in your eye's. Email me and I will get the name for you and anyone else who is interested. I sweat a lot and it doesn;t get in my eye's at all.