I am fucking melting

[dontforgetme]

I'm REALLY struggling in this heat. West Midlands.

I know we've barely had a summer and I know I should be enjoying this week but the amount I sweat is making me completely depressed. My hair is constantly wet, I have sweat running down my face as if it's raining, and I promise that is no exaggeration.

School run I could cry. It's so embarrassing being pouring of sweat, which then makes me sweat more I'm sure. It's nearly 1pm and the thought of the school run and being seen like this again is making tears come into my eyes.

Anyone who suffers from hair/face sweat, is there anything I can do?

I’ll grant you that ice cream is always a perk. But I’ll eat that in winter too ;)

I also agree with the PP about ‘you’ll be moaning when it’s grey/raining/cold.’ No I won’t. It’s much preferable to me. I can take reasonable and cheap measures to warm up again. When it’s hot I’m just stuck being hot and looking like a sweaty mess.

Currently enjoying the school run, because I’ve brought the car. Air con is saving my sanity. And murdering the planet I know, but my car is probably a drop in the ocean comparably.

Exactly. I'm fully embracing this weather, its the last hurrah before the misery of winter starts.

I've been searching for a lace parasol for ages. I wear a hat but just makes me hotter.

Very hot here and am similarly soaked at all times myself, wet hair and perspiration literally peeing out my face if I dare to get up and move about. I had to change out of my t-shirt after walking to the supermarket this morning it was so wet.

Not a fan of summer heat at all, as I am a naturally warm person all year round, autumn and winter is my time! Even as a child I'd come in from playing out to lie down in the shade with a wet flannel over my face. Global warming can bog off!

Also uniqlo airism vests and pants - great as a thin base layer - they stop your other clothes getting all sweaty.

29 degrees east midlands too today. Luckily nice and cool downstairs as the lounge is open plan and up in my bedroom is my pedestal fan I retrieved out of the shed this weekend!

Going through ice cubes like mad here in glasses of water.

I don't do well in the heat.

Top tip- cool wet scarf around your neck. It will dry before you get far, but I wet it as needed while I'm out. It's so efficient at cooling you down.

Also, dampen your hair. Again, it's very cooling, and makes the sweat dampness look deliberate

If you have skin folds, you can get little cotton and fleece pads to sit in them to absorb perspiration.

If you wear undershorts under a skirt, don't wear underwear beneath. It's so much cooler with just the one layer.

I think it's time that we made lace parasols fashionable again

I take a black golf umbrella out with me in case I end up somewhere with no shade.

I like sunny warm weather but not heat like this. I took my toddler out all morning but we've been watching TV for the last hour as its too hot in the garden, I've got a banging headache and no energy!

Feeling like a sweaty rubbish mum right now.

Loving this heat! The hotter the better ! Wfh so make that ice lollies and pool in garden (with laptop on of course !) Enjoy it !

Just a reminder to everyone that you need some salt as well as water to help keep you hydrated. People often forget that and just drink tons of water without it quenching their thirst.

My daughter chose today to move house….
whilst half of us are shifting furniture I’m barrowing three tonnes of fucking gravel into the back garden because the builders merchants dropped it on the wrong day. I am dying at this point.

Pregnant and currently dying... make the heat stop 😩

My H is driving me insane with sighing and going on about how it's too hot. 😖

These are good, I use them around my neck and it does help along with fans, handheld and table top/floor.

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I’m also midlands and it’s 33 degrees here. It is VILE

It's beautiful. I am gutted I have to work when it's like this though. Looks like it will still be hot at the weekend, so looking forward to that.

@Upandonward thanks for the liquid talc recommendation - got some on the way now! 👌

God, I flippin hate, hate, hate the heat. HATE it. I love the sunshine, but how anyone can enjoy this is beyond me. Thank god we didn't get it in July. My hometown in Essex is now so crowded, with so many houses and such awful traffic, that it makes these heatwaves even more misrable. The latest news on global warming is f-ing terrifying. I dread the future. I don't know what I will do if 40 degree summers become the norm.

29°C would kill me, any more than 24-25° and I'm flaking. Thank God I live in Scotland.

Inside my workplace it's 37 degrees 😞

Lovely weather, nice to see some sun and a bit of heat. Hopefully get another week or so out of this .

Run your wrists under cold water.
Wear something long, loose and floaty.
Stick on a wide-rimmed sunhat.
Lipstick optional.

I work in one Monday-Friday, it's been hell. Today is worse here (NW), it's overcast and very, very humid, the last few days have been sunny and very hot but not sticky.

@Humidititties yeah I retract my "it seems better" I'm now stood outside grumpy at the people who keep closing the door