I was listening to Cosmo Radio the other morning just to get away from all the Michael Vick *shudder* crap that has been all over ESPN Radio (my fav) lately and the girl that does the morning show was talking about how long it takes her to get ready in the morning and she said she took a 45 minute shower and then a full hour to get ready. Ifind that to be completely insane.

I can take a long shower in fact I used to let the water run until it turned cold in my old bathroom (it wasn't that long maybe 25 minutes). I like showers.
It just doesn't take me a full hour to get ready unless I have to blow dry my hair (which I generally don't have to).

Most of you know by now that I am a nanny so it makes no sense to get all gussied up to play with paint so about 10 minutes, but when my husband and I go out to a concert or nice dinner it generall takes about a half hour max.

How about you girls. How long does it take you to get ready?

I usually take about an hour and a half total. 20 minutes or so to shower, brush my teeth, etc. Then I let my hair air dry for about half an hour with gel in it before I diffuse. After that I do my makeup, then scrunch out my hair upside down to take the crunch out of the gel and get dressed.

Hair and makeup takes me about 15 minutes-ish (as for hair, it's only straightening and brushing it, and makeup only takes less than five minutes usually), sometimes longer if I decide I want to try something new with the makeup. Showering takes about 25-30 minutes, and I generally let it air-dry (I also tend to do this at night, so it's completely seperate from what I do in the morning), which takes about three hours. :p

Oh my gosh you ladies are so funny! I'm loving this! Maybe I'm the abnormal one. I can't imagine spending that much time getting ready.

Has anyone ever been late for a date due to getting ready?

I always start to get ready like 6 hours before I need to and then I have 5 and a half hours left to twiddle my thumbs and ponder the outfit.

PurpleRules: I do the same thing with my wardrobe. We went to a charity event that the Philadelphia Eagles kicker David Akers is part of and I think I had my make-up and hair done in 15 minutes, but changed my outfit 4 times...I went from black dress, to pink skirt/white top, to oragney purple skirt/orangey top and finally chose green/white skirt with previous orangy top....it looks much better than mydescription. My husband was irritated with me, but we weren't late. And then I got toasted on David Aker's dollar! It was fabulous!

Tai: you married your HS sweetheart! Oh how sweet! I love it! Writing a novel about a girl who marries her hs sweetheart.

I decided to time myself this morning to see if it really took me as long as I thought.

Yep: 1 hour, 30 minutes. Sad but true.

It really depends on how all out I want to go.

Minimal- 5 minutes (hairstyle replenish mist, brush hair, tinted moisturizer)

Look nice- 20 minutes (cute updo, tinted moisturizer, concealer, minimum eye make-up, blush)

Blow them out of the water- an hour (curl hair, full face of makeup, contact lenses, shimmery skin)

contacts took 15 minutes to put in yesterday. They were just not interested in my eyes. That was my total allowed time to get dressed. I was late for work, but not by much

I have fairly short, curly hair and I ride a motorcycle, so helmet-head is a fact of life. Fortunately, I can just fluff my hair with my fingers once I get to work/school/wherever and go about my business.

My makeup is minimal most days and I shower before I go to bed, so out of bed to out the door is about a half hour total - including tripping over, feeding, and petting the cats.

If I'm getting all gussied up for a special occasion, I can take up to an hour with shower, hair, make up, and getting dressed. I always loathed the "girls are always late" crap in high school, so I make it a point to give myself enough time and keep an eye on the clock while I get ready. I still agonize over clothes choices, but I don't give myself a lot of time to dither.

hahaha, it's definitely not to catch the eyes of the boys! I'm a grad student, so I generally wear makeup when I go to class so I look "put-together," rather than "just rolled out of bed." I think I look tired and young (not good young) without a little eye makeup.

make-up therapy! Now that is what I call fun!

Hm, judging from the last time that I got completely done up (to go to a chamber music concert in Santa Barbara that ABSOLUTELY ROCKED), about half an hour to forty minutes.

Ten to fifteen minutes to shower, closer to fifteen. Dressing takes no time since even my formal clothing is pretty low-maintenance. I love very slinky, tight one-piece dresses, so you just pull on hose and underwear, then yank the dress over your head and you're DONE.

Zero time fo rhair since it's nearly ot my knees; braid it, pin it up with a fancy clip, and you're done.

Makeup doesn't take long, either. Powder, mascara, a bit of eye makeup, lipstick (often just a dab of color then some gloss), done. When it comes ot makeup, I prefer the sort of look that looks like you just rolled out of bed looking like that and just look naturally fabulous. It's a matter of taste, but I like makeup to look non-obvious. I'm fortunate in that I have a fairly even skin tone and dark brows and lashes, though.

Pop on the shoes, and I'm finished. I think getting ready expands to fill the alloted time though, as Purple put it. If you like the fun of fussing around, you'll take as long as you have. If you hate the annoyance of fussing around, it'll take as little time as possible. :-)

If I'm showering it takes me about an hour because then I have to blow dry and flat iron my hair. If I'm not showering it only takes about 20 minutes for me to wash my face, put in my contacts, moisturize, slap on makeup and run out the door.

45 min to 1.5 hours. The 1.5 hours usually involves coffee, breakfast, and a TV show while I do my makeup. I'm in grad school, so I rarely go all out, but on the upside I'm rarely in a rush to get to class since most of them are online. I'll be sad when I have to go back to the 9-5 world, but oh well.

It can take me a half hour when I really try to get ready, but usually about an hour and fifteen minutes because I like to let my hair air dry as much as possible before i blow it dry