Sweaty tomato face in the gym!

I think it's just a natural thing that happens to some people. Even when I was super fit before university, I'd still get a bright red face about half way through my workout that took hours to fade. My friends took to calling me Strawberry Shortcake (I'm a fairly short girl as well). I've just learned to roll with it and worry more about getting in that great workout than if anyone is noticing my colour change.

Why do you even care? Literally no one else cares about how red you are.

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My face always has and always will get tomato red when I work out. So many times I've had someone come up to me and tell me I should probably take a break and sit down before I pass out, when I've just been doing cardio for about 5 minutes lol. Eventually I just got use to it, and people go use to seeing me that way and it wasn't a big deal. I'm sorry I don't have a miracle cure for you, but it's just part of being very pale. (I've been called glow in the dark before lol.) If you go to the gym after work and wear makeup you might wash your blush off first since you obviously won't need it anymore lol.

I did find that putting my hair in a bun kept it from getting so wet since it wasn't rubbing against my body sweat nearly as much.

I'm another beetroot/strawberry-faced sweaty woman. Also pale skinned and blonde. I used to let it bother me, to the point where it was one of the reasons I didn't like doing PE at school because I'd go red after very little work (even though I wasn't actually tired/out of breath) and I got paranoid that people thought I was unfit. Now I literally don't care. I go red in the pool too, it's just the way my body cools itself. My OH said to me the other day that once I got used to working out I'd stop sweating - ummm, nope, not gonna happen!

I get beet red when working out... It doesn't bother me as much now, but 6 years ago, I went to the same gym as my now husband (before we started dating). I hated him seeing me workout because of that red face =p

I can totally relate! My whole life my purple shiny face seemed to beam through given any opportunity, when working out or embarrassed or just basically as soon as i moved or felt any emotion of any kind haha. It doesn't really go away but I've learned to accept it now I almost feel proud of it as it shows i put effort in. If you leave a workout with a dry peach face you need to go harder or offer your marvelous complexion to science to help our kind, Keep rocking your mauve cranium for the world it shows your changing your life for the better, regards, a scarlet cheeked, moon foreheaded being x hahaha

Someone should start a thread for mid/post workout selfies. Bask in the glory of sweaty, bright red, crap hair, effort.

Love this thread! I, too, am a red faced messy pool of sweat after a workout. So jealous of my sister-in-laws who can just throw a little dry shampoo in their hair and be ready for the day. I'm sopping wet down to the tip of my ponytail some days. Especially after a spin class! My face will stay red for an hour or so after a hard work-out, but I've decided it's my badge of honor. It always feels good when I'm dropping my kids off at school to have someone comment on my red face - I love to reply "Yup. Really intense workout this morning!" (especially if the person commenting is still in their pajamas!) For me, it's a sign that I am well hydrated and I work hard. It is what it is, and I can't change it (I'm blaming it on genetics, as my sister and my mom have the same issue), so I might as well embrace it, right?