Makeup when cycling?

[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

[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.