Sleeping through the alarm

Today I managed to sleep through my alarm. Woke up at 9.35am, then quickly realised I had to leave the house to be at Uni by 10am - thus I had to get ready in a mere 10 minutes, forgoing my usual routine of breakfast - shower - clean teeth - make-up - dress - pack bag, and only doing the latter three (and very hastily, might I add).

Consequently, this meant I only had the time to add a quick splodge of tinted moisturiser to my face and a little bit of eyebrow pencilling. Needless to say, I felt awful all day. Not only was my mood terrible, but I know I wasn't feeling particularly comfortable with how I looked, which made things 10x worse.

I haven't gone to uni without any eye make-up whatsoever in a long time. Although I often just apply mascara, even with this I usually feel a lot better about my appearance. Without it (i.e. today), my eyes felt incredibly bleary and heavy (maybe this was down to a bad night's sleep, too) and it definitely made me feel more conscious about how I looked to others around me.

Strangely enough, I tend to focus more on the amount and type of make-up worn by other women around me more so when I have a completely bare face. Today, for example, it was really evident that the majority of my class were wearing a lot of make-up - foundation and eye-make-up in particular. I think perhaps it was because at the back of my mind I was so overly concerned with how I looked that I was subconsciously (and then consciously, once I realised what I was doing!) 'comparing' myself (or my 'percieved' self) with the people surrounding me.

So, I've experienced my first day without make-up at Uni and the overall verdict is that I hope I'll never sleep through my alarm again!

My Exercise Face

My Exercise Face

Welcome to my exercise face.

My exercise face is probably the truest of all my faces, as it seems to be one of the only appropriate times where I can leave the house with just a smidgen of tinted moisturiser, concealer and a little bit of eyebrow pencilling (this has only recently become a compulsive make-up habit of mine) without feeling too worried about my 'bare' face. It seems pretty pointless to me, really, to apply any more products when it's highly likely to result in unsightly sweat-induced smudging all over my face. 

Observing the other women in my legs, bums and tums class today, I noted that most also sported a rather pared-down look - probably for the same reasons as me - though some still wore (what is likely to be) their usual amount of make-up, upkeeping their usual, routinely identities. Perhaps they'd already been in university or out-and-about in the morning, but otherwise I find it slightly baffling that women would bother to take the time to apply a full-face of make-up, only to sweat it off half an hour after application and subsequently having to wash it off post-workout and start all over again! 

What is your take on wearing make-up to the gym/exercise classes? Do you go for an au-naturel/pared-down/full-face look, and why? Do you judge women who wear a full-face of make-up during exercise, or vice versa?

Don't hesitate to share your opinions with me :)