Low Maintenance Women
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hear you. Sure all you gals can get ready in 30 minutes or less. . . except you START getting ready 10 minutes before we're supposed to leave.
ok... thats funny cuz its true.......:laugh:0 -
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Thirty minutes, sans shower, to get ready is low maintenance? Geezum, thirty minutes is what I spend when I feel like spending a lot of time to get ready. Unless of course, I take a detour to play with my dog. Or my cat decides to make off with some of my make-up.0
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I never wear makeup anymore (I'm low maintenance but it could also be described as just being lazy and not wanting to bother with the foundation and powder and eye liners....IT NEVER ENDS). I am who I am so why should I hide it is my logic. Only time hair takes longer then 10 minutes is if I straighten it, and I don't do that everyday. Don't go to the salon for anything and I used to dye my hair with store bought dye but now I don't even do that.
....And I like beer so if you wanna make the thread about that now then go for it....:drinker:0 -
It depends where I'm going and what I need to do. A casual outing, definitely half an hour including shower is plenty of time. If we're dressing up, an hour. And I start getting ready with enough time to leave on time, my boyfriend on the other hand, aargh!0
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My entire morning routine--shower, blow dry, getting dressed, etc--takes about 40 minutes. Probably because I don't wear make up, but still.0
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20min shower, 10min make up, 5min finding my outfit/perfume deodorant, 5min brushing teeth 10min brushing hair= 50minutes, 60 if I straighten my hair. :P But if I get up late I can get ready in 10minutes although a lot of running and swearing is involved... LoL0
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hear you. Sure all you gals can get ready in 30 minutes or less. . . except you START getting ready 10 minutes before we're supposed to leave.
<raises hand> guilty as charged. You must have been talking with my husband! :blushing:0 -
20 minutes to get out of the house with the shower...
Every guy I dated says I'm too low-maintenance still trying to find a happy medium. (although things may be looking up)0 -
Sans shower....more than enough time...5 mins. changing, dust on some shadow, mascara, and lip gloss, brush my hair, slide in my shoes...and we are out the door. I'm not all that big on make-up. I like it...I don't need it.0
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well I may have missed it, because wow this thread is long, but Ready for what? For most things, Five minutes. For a night out 20 minutes if I know what I am wearing, 30 if I need to put an outfit together. For a "Special" night out, about an hour.
I find the topic of the "low maintenance/high maintenance woman" amusing since in my house it take about 2 hours to peel various males off of computers only to have them announce they are going to take showers and shave when we are already 2 hours late. Also a lot of my day is taken up cleaning up after and cooking for them, because other wise they'd starve/sit around in a pile of self made filth. I have to make them wake up to get to work, appointments etc, they seem incapable of doing laundry or cleaning dishes, or properly leaving the toilet in a hygienic state when they finished, They can't sew, or do any basic clothing repair, and unless I specifically and repeatedly remind them or give up after three or four requests and do it myself, the cats would starve and have no place to poop and the garbage would never get taken out.
"Taking to long to put make up on" is not high maintenance, not being able to function like an adult because you expect your woman to do all the work for you is high maintenance. The next time your girl keeps you waiting, why don't you use the time to do the dishes or take the garbage out.
You know, that whole, "before you criticize someone else, make sure you're perfect." thing.0 -
30 minutes and I didn't even have a shower? I'll have time to get some work done while I'm waiting on you!
Give me 5 minutes for general going out and 20 if we're going somewhere special. Add an additional 5 minutes if there's a shower involved. :drinker:0 -
30 min just fine with me!0
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It depends what im getting ready for, and how im doing my hair. If im not doing a whole lot and dont need to shave then 30 min is plenty of time....i get ADD tho when im getting ready...music...phone....talking0
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sans shower? 30 minutes sounds like more than enough time.
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With 30 minutes I can not only get myself completely ready, but also my son and pick up around the house... I style my hair myself. I get it re-layered every 6 months, but no coloring. I don't get my nails done because I think natural looks better on me. Low maintenance? It sure works for my husband...0
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Um, this thread became about beer hours ago.
YEAH. I almost had beer earlier but then I was too lazy to exercise so i didn't. true story.
am I still low maintenance?0 -
Um, this thread became about beer hours ago.
YEAH. I almost had beer earlier but then I was too lazy to exercise so i didn't. true story.
am I still low maintenance?
Sounds like it to me. I did have a beer though, so that makes me temporarily better than you.
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Sans shower and i'm ready in 15min or so, I generally don't wear any make up etc.0
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I am wondering how many of you think of yourself as low maintenance in terms of getting ready. I am going to arbitrarily throw out 30 minutes to get ready, sans shower, as the low maintenance threshold. The other thread said that only 2% of women are naturally pretty enough to not need much assistance, but I disagree.
So how many of you are able to achieve this?
I thought you had been on the cool aid but then I saw the earlier thread ....0 -
Um, this thread became about beer hours ago.
YEAH. I almost had beer earlier but then I was too lazy to exercise so i didn't. true story.
am I still low maintenance?
Sounds like it to me. I did have a beer though, so that makes me temporarily better than you.
please. I will more than make up for it when I have maker's mark tomorrow. who's better than who now?!0 -
On an average day this is me. I fluff my hair a bit, maybe put on lip gloss or eye liner, get dressed and I'm ready. Packing my lunch takes longer usually than anything to do with me and how I look. I think most women are pretty enough to not need to do half the crap they do to look "pretty" but to each her own.
For special occasions, I put in more work, but most of the extra time goes into me changing clothes a few times and maybe doing special things with my hair,0 -
15-20 minutes is enough. Don't really use make-up, but maybe I should...0
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I'm definitely not. I was in a hurry to get ready this morning and it still took me a full hour to comb out my hair, wash my face, shower, brush my teeth, preen, get dressed, & apply makeup, hair products, and fragrance. When I'm taking my time this process can take 2 hours at least!0
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That's plenty Lol as long as it not too close to laundry day...... Then i need 30 minutes just to throw all the clothes from my dresser onto the bed, huff and puff, say "what should i wear?" To my hubby, then be appalled/insulted at his horrible choice, throw myself down on the bed, say "I'm not going If i have to look stupid!", start crying, then my husband will say "I'll buy you more clothes later/tomorrow/pay day" and then i will tell him how that doesn't do anything for me NOW!, then after everything i find something anyways...... Lol but USUALLY I'm ready in ten minutes max. Dressed, hair brushed And tied back, scarf wrapped and pinned, eyeliner, lipgloss lets go0
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Definitely reasonable.
One time I woke up late for work and managed to have a shower, eat breakfast & have coffee, iron my top, do my hair, brush my teeth and get dressed in 30 minutes! It was a manic rush but I did it! Normally before my early shifts I give myself 1 hr 15 to do all that, plus cook/prepare my lunch for that day, and my hair would usually get washed in the shower too. I don't really wear make up but if I do, I'm not getting up any earlier to do it!0 -
It takes me about 5 minutes to do my hair and about 90 seconds to do my makeup.0
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Sans shower, absolutely. Or I can pour a cup of coffee, let a quick veggie/egg omelet cook while I shower, and still be ready in about 30 minutes - with a refill in the travel mug. That's right.
The hard part for me is actually getting upright!0 -
I believe in taking care of myself and a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine. In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
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