If you don't have a dressing table, where do you get ready?

[April1990]

Having to have a little rearrange in the house as baby number 1 is on the way and we will be using the current dressing room as nursery. I haven't really got the space for my dressing table to go so I'm wondering where you all get ready if you don't have a dressing table?

I have a rug under my dressing table & Chair to catch any powder spills or lipstick that plonks onto the floor.

In the bathroom. My flat is too small for anything else

What is all this confusion about getting ready? Some people actually love getting ready...this question is obviously for those people

Yea I love getting ready. Most days I shower, towel dry my hair, oil my body, get dressed and leave the house. So I am confused about if I should be posting as I don't know if I'm one of those people or not.

I guess “getting ready” is just what some people say.

It’s what I say when I mean I’m going to get showered, dressed and do my hair and makeup. “I’m just going upstairs to get ready...” for example.

Are they things that you think many people do sitting at a dressing table ffswhatnext? If so, this post is probably aimed at people like you. If not, then probably not.

Well yeah getting ready just means getting ready! I say to the kids to get ready for school. Which means dressed, hair, teeth etc.

It's not an unusual turn of phrase surely!

I have an antique shaving stand by the window. It’s almost identical to this photo, although the price of this one is outrageous and not to be taken seriously - mine was about £30 from a flea market! They’re not hard to find.

It is ideal because unlike a full dressing table it doesn’t take up any wall space, it’s small and neat and I store all my makeup and hair accessories in the round compartment under the adjustable mirror. Mine has a matching seat - I like to sit to do my makeup.

I don’t ruin my carpet a) because I don’t drop makeup and b) because I have a wooden floor!

www.vinterior.co/furniture/tables/dressing-tables/antique-victorian-mahogany-shaving-stand

Ooh pretty VenusClapTrap

I love my dressing table.

It's in a big bay with lots of light. It has lots of drawers to hide away all my make up and hair stuff. Everything I need is in one place.

For those confused, I sit there and do my hair and makeup.

Sometimes though I just sit there and play with my things.

JuanSheet

So OP is asking about a place where you sit down and do your hair and makeup every day? That's what you surmise. T

To other people "get ready" means other things.

Not styling your hair and not doing your makeup does not mean you are not ready. We agree, yes?

Christ this place is snippy today.

I have a dressing table but still do my make up looking in the the fitted wardrobes mirror standing up as I can see better close up. I don't wear loads though.

You said it Juan. May I quote you

"Yeah, but when you go outside, and walk around where other people are, you do see that some of them have make up on and styled hair dos? Dont you?"

I take it you're pretending that's not snippy.

I don't sit anywhere to get ready in the morning.

Get up.
Shower (hair kept dry - I wash it in the evening shower).
Brush teeth.
Dry self.
Put on clothes.
Brush hair and 're do ponytail.
Shoes on
Leave the house.

All hair and make up stuff is in bathroom next to mirror.

Deodorant is in bedside drawer because I do the above in dressing gown straight from shower and then get dressed in bedroom.

Oh I was going to respond but I’ve been realised I can’t be bothered. Be obtuse with someone else.

We'll I'm very obviously a superficial airhead who only thinks about how pretty I can be and I get up at 4am to 'get ready' as I have so much primping to do.

Unlike those down to earth types who rub a flannel over their face before striding out into the world to focus on important stuff.

I think that's the subtext of a number of posts on here.

I don't mind though as I have a dressing table, a PhD, a professional career And an imagination.

Indeed baby

I don't mind though as I have a dressing table, a PhD, a professional career And an imagination.

I ponder serious things all day long at work. And if I do say so myself, I do it with a fairly high standard of personal grooming. But then I am in the US Deep South. I think it's a law here.

The people with only the flannels and deodorant and pony tail hairbands failed to say where they keep them, missing the whole point of the thread.

Every thread I've been on today has had bickering in it. Was it a particularly rough half term or something? How'd you get a disagreement out of a thread about doing your hair and make up?

Make up, I'm often stood up in the bathroom as I can put the free standing mirror near the window and see better. There's a good sized cabinet I can put my make up and brushes. But then I put it all back on my dressing table in my dressing room 🤔
I do, do my hair and get dressed in there but at one point must've decided I could see better in the bathroom. Should maybe make an opticians appointment...

Not styling your hair and not doing your makeup does not mean you are not ready. We agree, yes?

Of course. But are you genuinely saying you didn’t understand what the OP was asking? That you were completely confused about the phrase ‘getting ready’ in the OP because ‘getting ready’ means something different to you? Really?
Or like most others were you actually able to surmise that in this instance, the OP likely used ‘getting ready’ to mean putting on make up and doing hair, even if you don’t do those things?