How often do you wear make-up?
Have you ever thought about how long you spend wearing make-up? New research shows that the average woman will spend more of her life wearing make-up than not.
The study found that in a typical 24-hour day, women will have a face full of cosmetics for nearly 13 hours a day and will have just 11 hours free from it.
The poll by health and wellbeing brand Beurer found the typical woman puts on her ‘face’ at precisely 8.00am and spends 11 minutes applying it.
But it’s not until 8.47pm that the average woman then removes her make-up. Although a quarter of women said they don’t remove their face until gone half past ten at night.
It’s hardly surprising then that 58 per cent of those polled said they make a point of leaving their make-up on all evening if they know guests might be popping in. And half of the women polled said they spend more time with their make-up on rather than a fresh faced look.
Robert Slade, Sales & Marketing Director of Beurer UK said: “This research shows that many women spend a large part of their time with make-up on.
“It can no doubt boost your confidence and make you feel better about yourself so it’s not surprising that many women insist on keeping it on all day.
“Despite that it is important to give your skin a break from time to time and to give it the care it needs.”
Worryingly nearly one in five women said they would refuse to open the front door if they didn’t have a face full of make-up and 10 per cent said the more make-up they have on the better they feel.
In fact 38 per cent are so reluctant to take it off they admitted to frequently going to bed with all their make-up intact.
And well over half of the 2000 women studied said they feel much less confident when completely bare faced and one in two said they dreaded anyone seeing them without make-up.
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