And now for something completely frivolous.....make up out hunting

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So - make up out hunting or not?

I never have - too much effort on a hunting morning and anyway I don't want it smeared down my face by 4pm! But I'm sure I was mistaken for a 16 year old pony clubber in my 20s when I rode a 14.2. And now I'm 36 I'm wondering whether it might be a bit unfair on the rest of the field to bare my (now getting rather) haggard face to them!

Do you wear make up? If so, what sort? I don't want to look like a clown after a few hours!

This is to ladies only of course. I'm sure we don't have any make up wearing men in the hunting forum. Or do we?!
 
i always have mascara and eyeliner, just because i'd hate anyone seeing me with no makep on i just look really awfull without any on! waterproof if necessary but have never really had a problem with it running
 
The only time I wear make up out hunting is from the night before!!

I'm afraid I really couldn't be bothered wearing makeup for hunting, you only get covered in muck. I think most of the ladies in my hunt wear make up though.
 
from a blokes point of view:p there are some hideous paint jobs out there with hiviz lipstick and dodgy orange spray tans :eek: i would rather see a smiling chatty girl plastered in mud than something looking like a waxwork heading off to do some kind of concours delegance tack & turnout thingie :rolleyes:
 
I'm like huntingmadineire.... I don't bother unless I've not had enough sleep to take off last nights! I only know one or two folk who bother and they tend to be more orange than made up if you know what I mean!
 
No I don’t, if I can’t be bothered to put it on when I’m going out, I can’t be bothered for hunting. However horse gets a bit of make-up for the white bits, but that never lasts long. :p
 
Hmm, so that's 4 to 1 against. Thanks for the blokes point of view dadio! I may perhaps invest in some waterproof mascara but yeah, I am not interested in the Tango-ed look!

It's a bit irrelevant after the first good run though, isn't it? If you've kept up with hounds, helped someone out, jumped a big hedge or two or done a gate for the huntsman....... it doesn't really matter how rough you look does it! Handsome is as handsome does!
 
Fully agree with jenhunt and huntingmadinEire. I don't bother with make up unless i failed to remove it the night before.

Eyeliner or mascara would just turn out like a panda knowing my luck and i dont own any makeup to add to the tango effect. I usually end up with no make up anyway by the time the elements have finished if i've occasionally put foundation on or something. Know people that do go out in warpaint, not sure how half of them still end up with it pristine by the end. One friend hardly ever wears makeup in normal life but when she hunts she wears this god awful red lipstick, never worked out why.
 
never
i don't own any
ok - i lie - i've recently bought some for my upcoming wedding.... i think it'll prob gather dust after that!
 
I'm another NO. I once went to a local meet where Otis Ferry was rumoured to be appearing and the amount of slap that had been trowelled on was disgusting! David Dickinson style clones as far as the eye could see....
 
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I'm another NO. I once went to a local meet where Otis Ferry was rumoured to be appearing and the amount of slap that had been trowelled on was disgusting! David Dickinson style clones as far as the eye could see....
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damn near just spat tea over my keyboard :p it was like that at our hunt when H&H came to visit! funniest thing was that they were all lined up, posing against the barn, plastered in makeup- and that was just the horses ;) yet they never got their feet dirty as they spent all day trotting up and down the road:rolleyes: funnist comment i heard that day was that we should jump the (90cm) hedge in the first field and anyone who didnt even try should be sent home :p

Not suprised my OH likes mud on a girl- when we met, he was in a ditch!
 
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yet they never got their feet dirty as they spent all day trotting up and down the road:rolleyes: funnist comment i heard that day was that we should jump the (90cm) hedge in the first field and anyone who didnt even try should be sent home :p
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And therein lies the difference between those who go hunting and those who actually follow hounds!
 
If I have time, I do put the bare minimum on if I have the chance to. Ie, quick cover of foundation and some [extremely waterproof] mascara....that's it :)
 
Maybe the amount of make up in the field is directly proportional to the fanciability of the huntsman....

I only asked because there seems to be a fair bit of it out round us. But I shall continue to bare my face with confidence!
 
Conceler and waterproof mascara. If I dont do under my eyes I look l like I have two black ones!! I also have creme de la mer lip balm in my pocket at all times, it is the best lip balm ever, better than 8 hour crème, and I put it on my lips and cheeks to stop them chaffing, not for vanity but because it blinking hurts otherwise! I am forever whapping my gloves off for a bit of moisturising...last year I succeeded to have a conversation with the master on my ill mannered new horse who was rearing, and still apply! Very committed to looking my best lol :D
 
Tinted mosteriser, waterproof mascara normally, does depend on how much rushing around I have to do in the mornin and also if I'm driving or not! And lip balm, normally just plain chap stick tho as tends to get passed around, and not all the masters can pull of the tinted lip balm look!!
 
i do!! mascara ,eyeliner and a touch of powder!! however i do know a couple of older ladies who do go for the tangoed look! quite a fewpeople in our hunt do wear makeup but not ott! because hunting is nothing like an evening occassion so why slap on loads! just the bare minimum to look smart!
 
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Mascara and sometimes a tiny amount of eye liner, but I would do this reguardless most days anyway. Also concelor but only if I have to.
 
No... But my face usually ends up being splattered with mud anyway!

I do have to laugh sometimes when I see women wearing make-up as if they were heading for a night out, and it eventually dripping down their face due to sweat and rain!
 
I think it's best not to wear any, let the fresh air get to your skin, being out in the country and all that ;) and if mud gets on your skin it'll be like having a facepack lol it'll do it all good :D
 
If I bother its a touch of that Olay moisturiser with a bit of foundation in it. I used to try waterproof mascara but with disastrous results, but this year I've been having eyelash extensions on the top lashes over this summer (which I am now addicted to and couldn't live without them), and may see how they cope out hunting (I really don't have any definition at all around my piggy eyes so do need a little help :D)
 
I have to say that as a red blooded man its always pleasing to see the ladies out hunting au natural.
With the only colour on their cheeks the product of some healthy exercise not some pot of powder.

We call fake the orange tan women satsumas.

I have found that the less attractive the woman, be it looks or personality, the more the war paint is used.

I know one woman that is absolutely stunning to look at when she's made up, but who has the morals of an alley cat and the personality of a cobra.
 
Never.

I too was regularly mistaken for a junior when I used to hunt on a 14.2. I have just down-sized to a 14.2 again but I don't think I'd pass for a junior anymore - made-up or not!

Interesting to read men's thoughts on the subject.
 
I always remember being out cubbing in about '85 and a relatively new lady appeared on the scene.

Indeed she was a lady by way of a title she had married.

Naturally the assembled company were interested in this new acquision.

Pleasant, not too far over the top and seemed to know what she was doing and very pretty.

Towards the end of the morning, the masters wife enquired of her daughter (aged about 10) how Lady....... was getting on.

The daughter knew the form from a - z and backwards, I would not dare name her now, because she has achieved singular fame.

The reply, "oh mummy I think you should be careful with that one". The reply, "why darling, she seems ok". The daughter, "no mummy really, I saw her repairing her make up whilst sitting on her horse".

Well that was it, repairing one's make up in the hunting field a very suspicious act. Actually I have never seen or heard of that occuring either before or since.
 
I always put make up on, even for autumn hunting at 6am! But then I don't leave the house without, at the very least, tinted moisturiser, concealer and mascara! For AH I would usually go with that, then for hunting proper, when I have more time to get sorted, I'd do a full face of make up that I would normally do for work (I should point out that I never look like David Dickinson and am also always careful not to get it on my collar LOL!).
 
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