Study Reveals Women Spend One Week a Year on Grooming

If a manicure takes 2 hours and costs $50, you're going to the wrong place.

I'd say I'm at about an hour and a half each week, around 20 minutes a day getting ready for work. Going out? Some mascara and lip gloss, maybe another run through with the Instyler. That's it.

 

IJAG, have I told you lately how much I love you?

 

"Has anyone told you today that you're pretty without any makeup on?"

Discuss.

 

Not lately enough.

I literally wake up two hours before work and shower. Let my hair air dry. Run the InStyler through it while it's a little damp just to straighten and bump under the ends. Throw a clip or a headband in, brush my teeth, throw some lip gloss on. Done. Ready for work.

 

Two hours??

I give that get ready shit one hour.

 

Wait, it doesn't take 2 hours? And cost $50?

Then what the hell has my wife been doing with her time and that money???

 

Women spend 17 weeks a year sleeping.

Now what?

 

I would give up all the pedis and manis to get 17 weeks of sleep a year.

 

Exactly. A cosmetics company commissions a study about how much women use its products (and others of their ilk) and gets free advertising by suckering some overworked newspaper staffer into rewriting (if that) a needlessly breathless press release. Typical churnalism.

Mike Marshall has done some good work on PR weaseling its way into journalism. If you're curious, here's a sample of his "Bad News" talk:

(skip forward to the 2:30 mark to get to the talk)

As an aside, Opinium looks a lot like OnePoll, where survey takers are paid 50p for each survey but only receive the money when their account reaches 25 quid. I wonder how much only allowing those who are "invited" to take surveys messes with the results.

 

They need to spend more weeks cooking and cleaning.

/runsandhides

 

I'll say it. I take an hour before I leave the house. I can do 20 minutes if I have to, but I prefer the full sixty minutes.

I'm not going to do the math on this. Mostly because I can't, but also because it will depress me.

 

Ditto, CB. I can only do the full 60 if there is a full pot of coffee waiting for me.