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Wearing makeup to the gym

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  • Posts: 2,485 Member
    Women shouldn't have to worry about wearing make-up is all I'm saying. As I recall, the question was, why do some women where make up to the gym?? You didn't have to chew me up and spit me out and call me a sk@nk.

    Nobody called you a sk@nk.

    And you don't think women should have to worry about how they look. Right?


    ...unless you're a woman who wants to wear makeup. Because then Buckeye will be judging you and thinking you're faker than a porn star's orgasm
  • Posts: 429 Member

    Just one woman's opinion. Nothing says you have to agree with me. Quite frankly, I just don't like make-up. People look good without it. It's one more thing the tabloids make us feel we need to wear to look good. If women want to wear it to make themselves feel good, that's their choice. I'm just an au-naturale person.

    And by the way, thanks for calling me arrogant. :smile:

    Perhaps you are more fake than these women are because you hide behind an "au-naturale" mask. They like looking and feeling pretty and don't care who notices. Versus you who feels the need to put herself on a pedestal for not wearing makeup.

    This may be judgmental, but I'm returning the favor you've bestowed upon these women. That is all.
  • Women shouldn't have to worry about wearing make-up is all I'm saying. As I recall, the question was, why do some women wear make up to the gym?? IT'S THEIR PREROGATIVE.

    You are damn if you and you are damn if you don't say the right thing on this website. You didn't have to chew me up and spit me out and call me a sk@nk.

    No one called you a sk@nk, your pregnant and a bit hormonal i think...
  • Posts: 553 Member
    I was only gone for an hour, how could I miss so much!:sad:
  • Posts: 42
    No makeup, because I'll be the one to towel it off into huge raccoon eyes and walk around that way until I see a mirror. :)
  • Posts: 4,440 Member
    They probably shouldn't bother anyway since they're just going to sweat it all off in the field. :grumble:

    Actually, I can tell you from experience that it stays on pretty well! :flowerforyou:
  • Posts: 429 Member

    Im right there with you LOL my 2 1/2 year old runs me ragged i almost prefer beating my own *kitten* in the gym then playground time, shes such a little *kitten* kicker lol

    Same here. Mine turned 2 1/2 two days ago, and he's got more energy than most of my family combined. Plus I have an 8 1/2 month old. Yeesh.
  • Posts: 799 Member
    I only wear makeup when I use the toilet.
  • Posts: 2,654 Member

    This may come as a surprise to you, but there is a huge difference in priorities between you a mother of three kids and a 20 something at the gym who is kidless she might be trying to meet a fit good looking male at the gym while your focused on getting fit to keep up with your kids :) or whatever your reasons are.

    ^^Exactly! When I was in my 20s, going to the gym, where all the hot, buff guys were, No Way would I walk in there looking like I had been lying in bed with the flu for a week!
    Now, eh, who cares. I go to the store with no makeup and hair in a banana clip half the time. lol My days of impressing anyone else but my hubby are over.
  • Posts: 22 Member
    If I have make up on before I go to the gym or work out then I don't bother taking it off first. I don't put it on just to go to the gym though.

    Me too. Don't bother to put it on but if I'm going after work, then I don't take it off.
  • Posts: 847 Member
    I only wear makeup when I use the toilet.


    But if you flush, wouldn't poo particles get stuck to your face?

    On another note-

    I wash my face before I work out but not my eye make up. I try to sweat hard and go for the teary eyed rejected prom date look.
  • Posts: 3,685 Member
    I wear makeup when I come from work one day a week. But i really would like to wash it off because I sweat so much the make up runs in my eyes and burns with my contacts!!! OUCH!!!!
  • Posts: 869 Member

    Nobody called you a sk@nk.

    And you don't think women should have to worry about how they look. Right?


    ...unless you're a woman who wants to wear makeup. Because then Buckeye will be judging you and thinking you're faker than a porn star's orgasm


    ***silly thread. But that last line "faker than a porn star's orgasm" has me laughing out loud or (lol).:bigsmile:
  • Posts: 329 Member
    I don't wear any makeup. people just have to take me as I am.
  • Posts: 243 Member
    WHO CARES!
    Never ceases to amaze me how many people concern themselves with women+make up at the gym.
  • Posts: 4,317 Member
    I wear clown make-up - but the shoes are brutal on the stair climber

    Best response of this entire thread by far. Lol.

  • ^^Exactly! When I was in my 20s, going to the gym, where all the hot, buff guys were, No Way would I walk in there looking like I had been lying in bed with the flu for a week!
    Now, eh, who cares. I go to the store with no makeup and hair in a banana clip half the time. lol My days of impressing anyone else but my hubby are over.

    THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THIS IS WHAT I WAS GOING FOR!! My pregnancy hormones get myself in trouble and in the worst possible manner which is NOT how I mean it.
  • Posts: 5,413 Member

    Not good enough. Those are NOT 3 good legit reasons, so take it up with someone else.

    Jaysus, who died and made YOU queen?
  • Posts: 4,966 Member


    But if you flush, wouldn't poo particles get stuck to your face?

    On another note-

    I wash my face before I work out but not my eye make up. I try to sweat hard and go for the teary eyed rejected prom date look.

    You're so emo
  • Posts: 85 Member
    Work out in my makeup and gunk up my pores? No way!! Besides, it wouldn't look anywhere near *good* by the time I finished; I work them sh*ts HARD ;)
  • Posts: 4,966 Member

    THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THIS IS WHAT I WAS GOING FOR!! My pregnancy hormones get myself in trouble and in the worst possible manner which is NOT how I mean it.

    Sorry...I'm having trouble getting from your original response of people who wear make up are fake and can't stand to look at themselves without it back to a nicely worded "to each their own" response.

    As others have said though...I understand you have a free pass punchcard because of your pregnancy.

    ETA: And i wear make up at the gym because darnit I like to feel pretty
  • Posts: 5,413 Member

    Sorry...I'm having trouble getting from your original response of people who wear make up are fake and can't stand to look at themselves without it back to a nicely worded "to each their own" response.

    As others have said though...I understand you have a free pass punchcard because of your pregnancy.

    ETA: And i wear make up at the gym because darnit I like to feel pretty

    Hang on a sec. I'm going through menopause. Where do I get me one of them 'free pass punchcards'?
  • Posts: 2,485 Member

    Sorry...I'm having trouble getting from your original response of people who wear make up are fake and can't stand to look at themselves without it back to a nicely worded "to each their own" response.

    As others have said though...I understand you have a free pass punchcard because of your pregnancy.

    ETA: And i wear make up at the gym because darnit I like to feel pretty

    Also Ice cream lipstick is the sex
  • Posts: 240 Member
    I don't mean after work, or on your lunch break.... I work out at about 9-10 am
    I hear ya. I will actually give my face a quick wash if I go after work so the mascara meets sweat doesn't get scary.

    Hubby and I go 8:00 saturdays and I am amazed of how many full make up faces there are. There is little cute about me at the gym :)
  • Posts: 1,573 Member
    I wear very little makeup, mascara and eyeliner and since I go to the gym straight from work, I wear it to the gym. Don't have time to wash my face first and don't really care to. If I work out in the morning, I don't bother with makeup.
  • Posts: 4,317 Member

    Sorry...I'm having trouble getting from your original response of people who wear make up are fake and can't stand to look at themselves without it back to a nicely worded "to each their own" response.

    As others have said though...I understand you have a free pass punchcard because of your pregnancy.

    ETA: And i wear make up at the gym because darnit I like to feel pretty

    Ryry you are very pretty. :)
  • Posts: 2,401 Member

    Sorry...I'm having trouble getting from your original response of people who wear make up are fake and can't stand to look at themselves without it back to a nicely worded "to each their own" response.

    As others have said though...I understand you have a free pass punchcard because of your pregnancy.

    ETA: And i wear make up at the gym because darnit I like to feel pretty

    I need to get knocked up so I can tell off my coworker and get a free pass for it. I need to google sperm banks on my lunch break
  • Posts: 2,485 Member

    I need to get knocked up so I can tell off my coworker and get a free pass for it. I need to google sperm banks on my lunch break

    I would give you my sperm if I could HayleyD. We would make a cute baby
  • Posts: 2,401 Member

    I would give you my sperm if I could HayleyD. We would make a cute baby

    Thanks for the offer but I think I found a sperm donor. He volunteered since he's currently serving a life sentence and won't even be out until after the kid is 18.

    Eta: good thing swastika tattoos aren't hereditary or else I'd tell you to figure out how to produce some swimmers
  • Posts: 915 Member
    If i was not married and trying to get attention from hot guys while working out, i would wear make up and cute clothes..But now, i don't bother- why waste time to get any attention when i cant use it for any purpose ;)
    I try to dress and impress only my hubby(ok-most of the times!)
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