to wonder how women can have kids under five and still manage to look good?

[fufflebum]

I feel frumpy today. Anyone else?

Have a four year old and a nearly one year old.

AIBU to wonder how other women seem to manage to put on makeup and buy good fitting clothes???

I manage a shower and hairwash every morning but makeup and new clothes an impossibility.....!!!

Any tips?

[SnowlightMcKenzie]

redybrek I did similar to you and bought some mineral foundation and concealer. However, I have to conclude that mineral make up is only any good if you don't need make up i.e. if you don't have red blotchy acne skin

However, I might go and apply fake tan, because although that makes my acne worse, if also disguises it.

[hazeyjane]

snowlight, what sort of mineral make up did you try?
I have bad skin (acne, scarring, blotchiness, eczema patches etc), and have found quite a good qay of layering make up that seems to work, without being too heavy.
I found the Maybelline mineral make up pretty good, but not on it's own.

[SnowlightMcKenzie]

I tried ELF. It feels lovely when on, and where my skin is good it is fab, but I look like I have chickenpox with a healthy glow.

[Pogleswood]

Agree with everyone who says organisation is key - but still remember Mum telling me,when DD was newborn,to do a particular thing'as soon as I got up' and thinking 'But I've already got umpteen other things that need to be done 'as soon as I get up'! Do get showered and made up and smartly dressed for work,more smartly dressed for school run now I'm getting old and wrinkly and need the help,but often if I have half an hour spare there's things I'd rather do - read,talk to dcs or dh,garden,read,tidy,read...And if I bathed /showered twice a day everyday my skin(dry/eczema)would fall apart and even if fixable I would need to spend money on creams etc which...I would rather spend on other things. Ditto make up. So i am a bit messy - but def. don't smell. Oh well!

[Timeisablindguide]

Catherine Zeta Jones's mother always said to her "Always dress well, you never know when you might meet the President"...
...I've not met the President, nor am likely to but I did run into a friend of my mother's a while back who is a lovely woman and always well dressed and groomed and I felt mortified to be with my two boys, in a top that had seen betetr days (not as black as it had been before relentless washing) and with hair that hadn't seen a stylist for longer than I could remember! From that day forth I revamped my wardrobe (nothing fancy but, as YearOfTheCat advises, I shunned my supermarket specials for something a little more enduring and took Gok Wan's advice to wear nowt but v-neck necklines as I'm a buxom lass) and now feel confident that I look respectable (of course since then I've not bumped into anyone who could then go off and report seeing me in my new yummy mummy phase). C'est la vie!

[Hay135]

Yep I long for the days when I use to have time to dry and style my hair. Now it Is thrown in a but (usually still half wet) an if I am lucky I spend 30secs applying face cream.
I wait too long between hair cuts etc as it's just hard work fitting it in and it's very really seen by anyone anyway .
Maybe someday I will miss the mad rush getting everyone ready but for now I crave the time to get ready by myself

[okitoki]

Okay, I'm gonna say it, don't be a hater. I always looked good when my kids were small and I still look good now lol.
When my babies were tiny I was ready for the world after an application of tinted moisteriser. My bronze blusher would be swept accross my cheecks and eyes with an applicaton of masscara to my lashes. Clean clothes everyday. Earings and a bracelet a must. My hair, my pi?ce de r?sistance, I wore a wig , every morning I'd arrive at nursery or school with fresh bouncy, shiny curls, not one soul knew my secret!

[TheVeryThing]

Why is a zombie thread listed under 'discussions of the day'?

[getbusyliving]

I have 4dcs, 3 under 5 and the only way to look half decent is to have a routine and a very helpful husband

[getbusyliving]

Zombie thread but 'struggle' still persists