Ladies, when you're at the gym...

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  • stines72
    stines72 Posts: 853 Member
    i wear 0 make up at the gym and look horrid, lol, don't care if i look pretty or not. but that doesn't stop the older men there from hitting on me... agh

    LOL i wish, the old men still hit on me, or just get right on a machine next to me and ill see them staring in the mirror. uber-creepers
    LOL agh you dont want THESE men creepin' on you, trust me.. maybe a certain type of older men its endearing but the men @ my gym are just creepy with the things they say
  • likearadiowave
    likearadiowave Posts: 445 Member
    Does anyone else feel not so pretty at the gym? I mean, most of the time im makeup-less. Now, i dont look horrible without it, but just, not as good. There are always so many people, and sometimes I feel self-concious! Does anyone else get this?

    Not pretty? AT THE GYM

    You just described about 95% of the human population.

    As for wearing makeup to the gym, I guess it's a choice, but for me personally, I don't like the feeling of wearing makeup to the gym only to have my face get all warm and sweaty so that I end up looking like a clown afterwards

    Then again, the only local gym i've been to was a woman's gym, so ... can't say i've had much of a reason to doll myself up to get sweaty and burn calories/
  • JustJennie1
    JustJennie1 Posts: 3,749 Member
    Not in the least. I'm there to work out hard and sweat which I do.

    I actually laugh at the girls who are all done up and look pretty while they're "working out" because they aren't working hard enough to break even the barest glisten on their foreheads. I mean god forbid a bead of sweat appears and ruins their perfectly applied make up or *gasp* gets on their pretty up-do!

    The only time I have ever worn make up at the gym was when I worked out in the afternoon because I didn't wash my face pre-workout.
  • StephieF87
    StephieF87 Posts: 60 Member
    I agree with SocWkrBee, get your beast mode on and forget the rest!!:laugh:
  • jealous_loser
    jealous_loser Posts: 395
    I don't wear make up, like, ever. Maybe on special occasions or something. I don't like it getting into my eyes.

    All that being said, I go to the gym to lift heavy stuff, I get sweaty gross, but that's all part of it. When I come home it doesn't really stop my boyfriend from trying to get some, ahahaha.
  • NakedLunchTime
    NakedLunchTime Posts: 559
    I don't wear makeup except for like once a week if I go out so it's not an issue at the gym.
    I walk in straight from work and put on whatever t-shirt I grabbed that was clean and basketball shorts.
    Ten minutes in my face is bright red, my hair has curled from being damp, and I'm pouring sweat. Not attractive AT ALL. Do I care/ Hell no. You wanna look at me, I'm used to it because of the tattoos on my legs, so I don't even notice anymore. I actually did meet my boyfriend at the gym, back when I used to work there though haha. I do occasionally get pissy when super thin girls in the locker room look at me. I've lost over 15lbs but they don't know that, they just see a fatty when they have never had to work to keep the weight off. Then I remember my health means more because I earned it, and I walk away. End of story.

    Congrats on your weightloss, but maybe those "super thin girls" in the locker room aren't actually looking at you like you think they are. You probably are completely wrong about what they are thinking. I am thin, have been my whole life. I work out, have for years. I NEVER think badly about anyone, no matter their size at the gym. I admire anyone that puts in work because I know how hard it is to keep at it. It is offensive that you think that but your not hurting anyone else but yourself thinking that people feel that way about you while at the gym.

    * OP: I work out at home, but I used to wear makeup to the gym when I went because I came from work, and I feel that because I was sweating, it made me look worse than none at all!! lol
  • bella24xo
    bella24xo Posts: 177 Member
    thisssss is one of the biggest things that annoys me at the gym. i go right after work so i have my make up on but i will be the first person to admit i dont give a crap what i look like while im there or after. i concentrate on sweating and working out so i cant stand the girls with their long *kitten* hair down attempting to work out! it drives me NUTS:sad:
  • kmsairam
    kmsairam Posts: 317 Member
    This reminds me of that episode of Sex and the City, when Miranda met that guy at the gym. When he finally came over and she was all gussied up he was disappointed! He said that I like her when she was sweaty and stinky from working out.

    LMAO. I forgot about that one!!
  • scarletgenesis
    scarletgenesis Posts: 33
    I always feel like the "fat girl" but I can ignore it - some kickass music and I get right in the zone.

    Same here, but my trainer is working me hard and said I'm working harder than most of her clients. There are only a few men around my age at the small gym I go to, and the only time they look at me is to offer encouragement or when we're trying to see who is using what weights, etc. There is some socializing at my gym, but it tends to all be AFTER workouts when people are sweaty, red, and exhausted. I like the environment there. I specifically chose this gym because it wasn't a meat market. Some people are encouraged by that, but it just made me feel self conscious. Here, the only person i talk to more than a few seconds while working out is my trainer.
  • NakedLunchTime
    NakedLunchTime Posts: 559
    thisssss is one of the biggest things that annoys me at the gym. i go right after work so i have my make up on but i will be the first person to admit i dont give a crap what i look like while im there or after. i concentrate on sweating and working out so i cant stand the girls with their long *kitten* hair down attempting to work out! it drives me NUTS:sad:

    I totally agree!! I would DIE with my hair down...ew..sweaty and gross, just no! lol
  • mitch16
    mitch16 Posts: 2,113 Member
    I don't wear much make up anyways, but I actually think I look kind of sexy when I'm sweaty and flushed from working out (if I should say so myself, and really for no one else but myself)!

    I actually worry more that people are staring at me because I'm stinky!
  • ewl6850
    ewl6850 Posts: 158 Member
    Not a woman.

    But I used to workout with my roommate, and always got self conscious at the gym. He would always tell me:

    "You go to the gym so you can pick up women, but you NEVER go to the gym to pick up women."

    I've also never seen a woman at the gym and been like, "Eww, she's gross." It's generally accepted that people are there to work out, and are going to sweat and get red.
  • fit_librarian
    fit_librarian Posts: 242 Member
    I don't really care what I look like at the gym. I'm there to get sweaty and burn calories.
  • LesleeBeAlive
    LesleeBeAlive Posts: 504
    Unless I just got off work. I don't look pretty. Nor do I really care. It's the gym, not a club :)
  • ToughTulip
    ToughTulip Posts: 1,118 Member
    I feel hot as *kitten* when i'm at the gym
    I usually wear my makeup and hair down to lift (headaches from ponytail)
    I look strong at the gym! Love it :D
  • mgmlap
    mgmlap Posts: 1,377 Member
    You go to the gym to work..not look pretty :wink:
    This. Those girls on the elliptical, with make up on and not breaking a sweat? Yeah, that's not helping them all that much.

    I agree..you go to work out..but I dont agree with the whole sweating bit..I dont sweat..I get a little moist..but I dont sweat..never have..I dont think I ever will. So you cant gauge how hard someone is working out by the amount of sweat..Heck some people sweat changing their minds
  • honeysprinkles
    honeysprinkles Posts: 1,757 Member
    You go to the gym to work..not look pretty :wink:
    This. Those girls on the elliptical, with make up on and not breaking a sweat? Yeah, that's not helping them all that much.
    you don't know that. even a slow walk burns calories. anyways, sometimes I do feel ugly at the gym and it makes me self-conscious and enjoy being there less. It's mostly when my hair looks terrible or all of my nice workout clothes need to be washed, make up doesn't bother me as much.
  • tattedchic
    tattedchic Posts: 66 Member
    Meh, it bugs me for about a second then I get to working out. I don't mind not wearing makeup as much as I hate the way my hair looks in a ponytail lol I'm always looking for cute updos for the gym. However I'm the first to roll my eyes at those girls with their hair down using the ellipticals- seriously who works out with their hair down?!
  • girlykate143
    girlykate143 Posts: 220 Member
    I enter in Beast Mode and then leave accordingly. It would be a waste of my time to walk in feeling less than awesome, because I would be too worried about others and not focused on my workout.

    Here is what I think when I see people at the gym.

    Fit person: "Wow, I want to be like you one day"
    No-so-fit-person: "Good for you for taking care of your health"

    The end.
    ^^ This. Also, Awesome!
  • anemoneprose
    anemoneprose Posts: 1,805 Member
    Ah man, your gym-time's been ruined!

    Unsubscribe from that guy's feed. Even if he's cute, he's a douche if he wanted to add you, but won't actually talk to you. (Bc yes he thinks you're hot, but no he won't bother to get to know you, he thinks you'll fall over yourself looking at his biceps = head games + bad time. If you were cool with just messing around, you wouldn't be all torn up about this, you'd just go for whatever [which is fine, no judgement, but prob not fine for everyone].)

    & go at a different time. Wear a do-rag, NO makeup & sweat pants and those old guys will leave you alone to work.

    Also: best gym I ever went to = boxing gym that tolerated non-boxers for the $. All business there.
  • professorRAT
    professorRAT Posts: 690 Member
    AHA - it's about a guy! :-P

    LOL of course. i catch him staring sometimes. pretty uncomfortable!

    He is probably staring because he thinks you are hot, make-up or not.:wink:
  • Elif84
    Elif84 Posts: 287 Member
    Once I have my Ipod on while working out, I feel like I'm the only person at the gym. Just sweat it up and tune 'em out.
  • SomeoneSomeplace
    SomeoneSomeplace Posts: 1,094 Member
    I actually think the women with a pound of make up, a push up bra, a boob shirt & the shortest shorts possible look absolutely ridiculous at the gym.
  • BRenkwell
    BRenkwell Posts: 30 Member
    I'm extremely self conscious, EXTREMELY. However, at the gym, unless my gut is showing because my shirt is too short or my shorts or riding up in between my legs I give none f*cks. The gym is really the only place I feel this way though. I'm there for the purpose of looking a mess when I leave. I'm also normally there when no one else is, or it's the men who are reeeeeeeeally interested in the weights and not the tall blonde on the treadmill anyway.
  • CariBgood
    CariBgood Posts: 88 Member
    The Gym I go to has no bimbo no meat head rule..... Pretty much everyone there is there to get down and dirty. Don't be self conscious DO YOUR THANG!
  • Glamrock82
    Glamrock82 Posts: 22 Member
    I don't care. I go to the gym looking awful. I leave the gym looking worse than when I arrived. But I feel FABULOUS afterwards.
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    the hottest girls at the gym are the ones that are there sweating, hair in a ponytail, no make up, and pushing themselves hard whether it is lifting weights or on the elliptical.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    This is going to turn into one of those "makeup at the gym" threads.

    Just so everyone knows where this is inevitably heading.

    *leaves quietly*
  • stines72
    stines72 Posts: 853 Member
    The Gym I go to has no bimbo no meat head rule..... Pretty much everyone there is there to get down and dirty. Don't be self conscious DO YOUR THANG!
    I like that rule.\
  • Kaydoggie
    Kaydoggie Posts: 98 Member
    I wear makeup when I go to the gym, but ONLY because I go there right after work. By the time I'm done, its halfway down my face and I'm a sweaty mess. I go to workout, not look pretty.

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