Shower and ‘get ready’ - personal best 43 mins

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I expect lots of posters can achieve twice the results in half the time. I have struggled with this for years and getting ready from scratch just feels like a mountain to climb, but I don’t look or feel like me unless I do it.

A shower/hair wash then moisturiser, let moisturiser sink in then light make up (mainly to conceal dark circles, a bit of eye definition, then loose powder and blusher), shoulder length straight-ish hair that I blast with hairdryer then finish off with Revlon One Step. Then get dressed.

Do I have unrealistic expectations, or does everyone else spend a similar amount of time? I have experimented with washing my hair at night, rather than in the morning; this is ok-ish but not ideal.

15 minutes in the morning, hair is left to air dry during my 50 minute drive, I whack on light make- up in the car park. Having clothes laid out ready is a huge plus.

What @Fairislefandango has just said.

I wouldn't need to feel 'groomed' to go shopping. On the odd occasion I need to go in to the office, it is a casual, dress down day too.

I assumed you meant for going out / getting dressed up.

I get up at 7.40am and leave at 8.05am. In that time, I make three packed lunches, shower, dress, brush teeth, plait hair out of the way and sometimes, de-ice the car. Occasionally, I also eat a bowl of cereal.

I only wash my hair once a week and I've never coloured in my face.

30 minutes short hair and no makeup

I get up, make my coffee and bring it into the bathroom. Run the bath. As is runs I cleanse my skin and wipe off with a wet flannel. Then moisturiser, a little foundation, eyebrow pencil, eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara and blusher. I am very, very fast and could do it with my eyes shut. Get in bath with hair in top knot bun. Quick 2 minute wash while I silently say some prayers to start my day. Out if the bath, deodorant, clothes, finish coffee, brush teeth, lipstick, brush and style hair. It can be done in less than 15 minutes.

Oh for context, while I'm doing this, my husband is getting our 3 kids ready. I will have made their breakfast while making my coffee and set out the uniforms, including pants and socks, the night before. My husband goes to work when I'm ready and I take over getting the 3 amigos out the door. The mornings are intense and there is a 2 minute period each morning where I'm close to crying, but it passes and we all get to where we need to be!

You do your make up before your bath? Doesn’t it just slough off in the steam?

It’s takes me 45 minutes from getting up to out the house. I think it would be 30
if I wasn’t also repeatedly making sure my children are getting up and dressed. I also don’t eat anything and take a coffee with me. I don’t wash my hair every day. That helps.

makeup wise I do a serum, then moisturise then CC cream. I don’t really leave long between them. Basically back to back. Then it’s mascara and blush. Hair is blasted with the hairdryer then pouffed with the revlon one step.

clothes are laid out the night before and I don’t change jewellery

Meaning I sleep in earrings and necklace

The children have full uniform and underwear laid out on the floor as well. We all have clothes men!

Have managed to get it to about 45 mins recently - shower/wash hair, dry body, moisturise face, dry hair, make up, dry hair, get dressed and out. Going to buy some of the hair turbans and get into the habit of putting my clothes out the night before and see if I can get a couple more minutes off.

I'm trying to convince myself that as the weather gets better and the mornings get brighter, it would be good for me to get up and take a 15-20 minute walk each morning before getting ready, so every minute counts as I struggle to get up as it is.

If I'm going to the office and washing my hair I allow 1hr 45 mins to shower, dry hair, makeup and get dressed. If I don't have to wash hair (and I showered the night before) I can get ready in under an hour.

No, the bathroom never gets steamy! I always do this and nothing ever happens to my make up. Its not that kind of long soak either. It's hot but not steamy hot, and I'm pretty much in and out. It's a great way to start the day in winter. In summer, I make it luke warm and that's nice too. But the make up never budges.

Without needing a hair wash, and knowing exactly what I'm wearing, I can do quick shower, apply lotions and potions, dress, make up and do (not dry) hair in c 30 mins. But that's a slick effort and I'm moving at pace to achieve this.

With a hair wash and dry, and fannying around with clothing choices and not moving at pace... an hour at least.

As I've got older it's got worse - takes a lot longer to make myself look presentable.

A shower in a morning a couple of minutes. Then 5 mins to get dried and dressed. A shower on a night 9 mins which includes 2 hair washes, conditioning, a quick body scrub of arms and legs and a full body wash. A night time shower usually just includes me getting straight into bed so a quick dry off and either a towel wrapped round my hair or a towel on the pillow. If I include hair drying as well it takes it to around 15-20 mins. Now a bath however I can wallow in a red hot bath for hours

Bang on 40 mins today. Thanks for the challenge, OP!

@whywouldthisbe i doubt I can beat 40 mins but I will try in the morning!

This might be my superpower.

DH just cannot get himself up, washed and dressed and out of the house in less than an hour.

Me: 9mins max from switch off the alarm and getting up, teeth, shower. Dry and moisturise, pants, socks, bra, jeans and t shirt. This are all stored close to each other, no walking around required. Maybe a necklace and drag a brush through my hair. Pick up my bag and I'm out the door.

To be fair, if I stop for anything, it adds min ten minutes so I just don't stop for anything. Simples.

What possibly takes so long when it comes to make-up? I do mine in literally 90 seconds. Okay it's light but even if I went full on, I truly cannot imagine what requires more than three or four minutes?

This is me, I an be out of the door within 10 minutes of waking up

Blending

What is blending? Should I be doing it?!

I am baffled by this too - if I do my very most made-up look then it's tinted moisturiser, eyeliner, mascara, blusher and lipstick and that takes less than 5 minutes. I have literally never spent longer on make-up than that, including on my wedding day. But there are huge swathes of beauty products and tools I've never touched - eyelash curling/fake ones, contouring and bronzing and shading and all that stuff. But it doesn't look like most women I see have done all that either, even when fairly dressed up?

It takes me 15 minutes if I'm not washing my hair, 20 if I am (I wash it every other day and I have curly hair that I air dry apart from my fringe, but that's a quick blast thing and I do it while waiting for my moisturiser to sink in before doing make-up). It then takes me another hour to get out of the house, but that's because when I'm ready is the point at which I wake up the children...

I'm an hour minimum. I have to wash my hair every morning, if I wash the night before then sleep on it it looks like shit.

I might be quite slow, but I am about an hour and 15 minutes from bed -> door. I am a bit faster if DP is at home but he works abroad a lot and is currently away, so my morning on an office day is:

7am alarm, feed cat, make tea, let cat out, sinus rinse, use the loo
7.10 - shower, hair wash
7.15 - skincare, makeup
7.25 - body lotion, get dressed, dry hair
7.40 - make bed, put porridge in microwave, make second cup of tea, straighten hair, perfume, jewellery, open living room curtains, eat porridge while checking emails, regular news sites, TikTok
8am - brush teeth, put on lipstick, load dishwasher, lunch etc into work bag, get cat in, hand cream, rings
8.15 - out

I am not great in the mornings so just the shower/hair/clothes/makeup bit is much faster if done at eg 2pm!