I love doing a full glamor look, but it legit takes me like 2-2.5 hours. My eyes alone take an hour. I used to only do makeup for special occasions but lately I’ve wanted to do it more frequently or daily. 2-2.5 hours a day on makeup seems crazy. Do I just need to keep practicing to get faster, or is it normal for big looks to take a long time?
If there’s a specific eye look you like, try practicing that more often and it should be a little quicker.
It used to take me 2-3 hours to do a full look lol. Now it takes me 1-1.5 hours.
Good skincare, moisturize then wait till it dries before foundation. Also the quality of eyeshadow. And decent brushes. Then it’s easy peasy lol
It’s not that it’s hard, I’m just slow. I don’t know if you meant it, but your comment has come off really condescending.
Good skincare is essential. I could save myself some time by taking care of my skin and working on prevention rather than using some time to color correct my dark spots and then pin pointing some concealer over foundation. Thankfully my skin is getting better and im fading away some dark spots. Thatll help save me some time in the long run.
The most time I have ever spent in my entire life putting on make up is 20 minutes, with exception of my wedding. At this stage in my life I don’t want to spend hours putting on my face. I’m 62. If it take more than 15 minutes to put on my face, I’m going to give it hard pass and get on with living life. If this is your hobby that is a different animal. To spend 2 plus hours to start a day no way. For an event still seems extremely excessive to me.
To continue to beat a dead horse even in my 20’s and 30’s when I washed and curled my hair in the am I was out the door in an hour, not having to do hair I was in the car within 30 minutes of alarm going off.
Practice but also the products you use. I noticed some mascaras i use can take me a quick 30 seconds for me to be happy with them. Others are messy or need several coats. It can take quite a while.
Completion products. Some of them take longer to dry than others. Same goes for eyeliner. Some wetter formulas will make me wait a bit before i do the next step.
But! 2.5 hours is a long time. I’d say with practice that should go down. But if you move slow and dilly daddle a lot that may impact it.
2 hour make up should only be done for special occasions. Daily make up should be 1/2 hour or less. Come on ladies, men get extra time because they don’t do their hair and make up in the mornings!!! If you really really love spending two hours doing make up everyday then go for it!!! I try to do my makeup in 15 minutes. I am 63 years old and have to wear a foundation mixed with moisturizer. If I wore heavy contoured make up I think I would look like an old drag queen.
when i first started wearing makeup it’d take me like 90 minutes to do a full face. now i can do it in like 30 minutes
You guys…my full face takes me 10, 15 min tops.😆
I wish I had the patience to spend more time on makeup. I suck at it, and wear minimal makeup and need to start sorting through some helpful YouTube tutorials. I feel like I could make myself look very pretty if I took the time to figure out how (now that I’m 39 lol)
Yeah i think its just practice. I watch a lot of drag makeup tutorials bc theyre fun, and a lot of the queens and kings say they started out doing their makeup like 3-4 hours and then nail it down to less time
What? Despite my personal rhythms are pretty slow, it never took me so long: partly because I don’t use too much makeup and partly because it is rare I could perform a full one, I’m always late!
I began wearing makeup on a more everyday schedule since 2001 upon starting university. At the time the trend was pretty favorable to me and it took maybe 10 minutes. Then for a period I kept putting it while heading towards wherever I was going to, which meant I wasn’t late and couldn’t do it at home: using public transportation has its advantages sometimes.
During last months of 2014 my bag began to be so heavy my knees would ache everyday, so I had to cut down on a number of small unnecessary items, makeup sachet included. It was ridiculous carrying base cream, powder, several pencils, 2-3 glosses, blush and brushes altogether in a period my skin barely tolerated any substance. This move necessarily brought me to develop new routines and try to speed up a bit, but in reality the only improvement I got is just learning to do what it looks like a full makeup in 5 minutes by wearing only base cream, penciled eyebrows, eyeshadow and gloss. Had to get rid of powder and blush but proved beneficial for overall tolerance. I do a full makeup only on occasions and whenever we’re holding a concert with my choir (in this case my makeup process could take up to almost an hour).
My advice, and what really has been a turning point in general for me, is to use practical items. Eyeshadow pencils are much more convenient than powder eyeshadow, and glosses are better than lipsticks because they don’t require a precise application and go well with any style. Lip pencils are the most unnecessary thing ever and even mascara has been a personal burden for years. A brightening pencil does miracles and could also be used as a concealer- and it’s even more effective. Applying base cream at least five minutes before actual makeup prevents patchy and unnatural results. Choose a very moisturizing one for extended comfort but that at the same time isn’t very greasy or heavy on the skin. Reduce your bag supplies to the very minimum but in a way you could always retouch when necessary, and avoid carrying powder and blush because I always ended up destroying their cases.
It takes a bit, but you can do it. 💝💝💝
Thia is great advice. I started carrying a powder compact, stick foundation and eyeshadow, mascara, and a multiuse lip/ cheek stick in my makeup bag. I threw in a beauty blender and retractable kabuki brush for blending if my fingers aren’t enough. Using fewer products definitely helps make things faster as well.
Thanks! Definitely helps. My bag makeup is just two eyebrows pencils (depending whether I want to draw them lighter or darker), a mini eyeshadow palette with basic colors that I could use multiple ways + brush, a highlighter pencil and gloss (used to carry more than one but kept losing them).
As everyone else has said, you just need to practice and with time you’ll be able to do your makeup quicker. I do a full face 5-6 days a week and have done for years. When I only wore makeup occasionally it would take me at least an hour, now I have it down to 20-30 minutes.
It takes me an hour to do my full glam. That includes eyeshadow, liner, color correcting and all the other stuff. If I skip steps I can do my makeup in less time.
I feel like eyeshadow is the biggest time suck. When I just use mascara and makeup then I can be done quicker.
Practice, and then once you’re fully practiced you can work on retaining accuracy while increasing speed. I’ve never been able to do a full face in under 45 minutes, though, even when speed-running. I recommend checking to see if you can skip certain parts of your routine and still get the same result.
Yes, it gets faster. I wear makeup daily, and have for the last 20 years or so.
It’s like the first time you cook, you get every bowl & cutting board dirty… and it takes ALL day just to bake some bread… but after you have been doing it for a bajillion years, you can put on a meal for 15 people in under a couple hours.
I only keep makeup I use daily in my makeup bag. Everything else goes in a backup sterile drawer. Same thing for brushes.
So when it’s makeup time, I lay everything out, in the same order, so I’m never “searching” or “choosing”. It’s literally like a dance routine, all the steps are known before hand.
If I need to get out of the house ASAP, I can do a 5 minute look; foundation, concealer, blush, contour, highlight, eyeshadow, lip tint, curl lashes, tight-line, and mascara.
My normal look is about 15 minutes… it’s the same stuff, plus primer, and more careful placement and blending.
When I’m doing an evening look, I go more ham on the eyeshadow & liner. Maybe throw on some fake lashes… plus I use a matte setting spray, powder, then another dose of the setting spray. About 30 minutes on the face.
So when it’s makeup time, I lay everything out, in the same order, so I’m never “searching” or “choosing”. It’s literally like a dance routine, all the steps are known before hand.
This is something I need to add to my routine. I can’t tell you how many I times I set something down and then start yelling at no one wondering how I could have possibly lost it.
It makes a big difference.
My makeup all fits in a bag thats basically 5x8". I actually put the makeup away the same every time too. Liquids & creams laying down like pencils in a case, and the powders all stacked together at the “head of the bed”.
So literally, when it’s makeup time… it’s like setting the table for dinner. Everything has a spot.
To find a good system for yourself, start with everything off to the left side, and as you use items… line them up on the right.
So for me, the first thing I use is my beauty blender and foundation. So those get picked ip from the jumble, and placed as the “line leaders” on the right.
The beauty blender will become where I put the brushes, the foundation will become where I put the makeup.
Usually my next step is contour, so the brush and powder go from the jumble on the left to the lineup on the right. The contour brush next to the beauty blender, the powder next to the concealer.
Just keep doing that until you have a tidy line up of each brush and each makeup & your facd is done. Any products or brushes that you didn’t use goes away to the storage drawer.
If it’s brush cleaning day, I clean my brushes (rubbing alcohol and swirling on makeup wipes), then leave them out to dry. Otherwise they go right back in the brushes bag. Makeup goes into the makeup bag.
Then depending on where I’m going to be that week, the bags go in a plastic shoebox on my desk shelf, or they go in my work backpack.
Can I ask what does your make up consist of that it takes so long? Just curious, maybe I am missing a lot of steps.
My everyday make up look is under 10 minutes (mineral foundation, brow gel, mascara, concealer, highlighter and blush). My „going out” make up is all the former plus eyeshadows, eyeliner, false lashes and sometimes lipstick, that adds 20 minutes on top of that.
But I have my routine down to a T, I could do my daily make up in 5 minutes if in a rush. It definitely wasn’t the case a few years ago.
Practice and you will be able to reduce the time for sure.