Will you wear makeup in labour or not?

[angiepie]

People actually do that?

I rarely wear makeup, so no way I would in labour. I'll brush my hair and put it in a ponytail though.

 

[Gizzyy]

People actually do that?

I rarely wear makeup, so no way I would in labour. I'll brush my hair and put it in a ponytail though.

Well I do because I have a skin condition on my face so I get some special makeup on prescription. I'm not bothering with eye-makeup, just my usual cover up.

 

[shmunster]

I probably wont, but I did paint my nails the day before I had DS so my nails looked nice LOL, was lucky timing

 

[newlywedtzh]

I wear makeup pretty much everyday however when I'm sick/not feeling well ... having no makeup to smudge or rub off and just having a "clean fresh" feeling always soothes me. I feel like once I know it's happening, I'll take a hot shower if I can ... maybe some concealer but throw my hair up....put on comfy clothes and go

I just know that if I'm in pain I'll want to be comfortable and comfortable to me means a fresh face and clean hair!

 

[ashleyg]

I am having a csection so we know when she's coming lol. I will definitely be wearing a little bit of makeup!

 

[ljo1984]

My god no lol! My first I may have had make up on the day my waters broke but no contractions, but was then labouring over night and until tea time the next day, I doubt there was any left on by that point. And my second I woke up early morning with strong contractions so didn't even enter my head. Would all depend on time of day for me, but I'm having home water birth too, don't fancy panda eyes for my first pics ha ha.

 

[Katy Bug]

Oh man..when I had my first I totally wore makeup, and it stayed on for over 24 hours. I wish once things had started getting hard for me that I had just washed it off because I looked horrible after I gave birth. Mascara all under my eyes and stuff..Yeah, if you want to do it, but it'll probably come off somehow.

 

[squirrel.]

I only wear make-up about once a year, so I definitely won't. I am however, wondering what to do with my hair. I have quite fine hair and when it's washed and blow-dried it looks volumous, but after 24 hours it doesn't look great. Last time I was in labour for 38 hours. I'm thinking ponytail, but even that will start to look ropy after all the tossing, turning, moving, baths and whatnot from labour. I'm not that bothered by my appearance while I'm in labour, but we never got a picture of me with our son until a few days after he was born last time (my husband doesn't take pictures very often, I wish he was a shutterbug!) and this time I really want one straight after she's born - the self-conscious formerly-abused-to-have-no-self-esteem part of me will want my hair not to look absolutely awful!! So I think I'll be taking some dry shampoo with me.

 

[MaisyMay]

I'm very, very self conscious, I get in the shower and do my makeup as soon as I wake so that even my husband doesn't have to see my naked face! My contractions started at 3.30am with ds, I had a shower at about 4.30 -5 am and then put a little makeup on and just tied my hair up. I didn't wear mascara, but concealed my dark circles, powdered my nose and put some blush on. Although from my first contraction to delivery was 15 hours, my established labour was less than 2 hours (I barely made it to the hospital) so this time I've been told to get my ass to the hospital from the first contraction. I don't know that I'll be brave enough to take half an hour to shower and do my make up if I wake up in labour. Although it kills me to think of not wearing any 😕

 

[RileysMummy]

I may or may not have it on already but won't sit there applying it beforehand lol x

 

[pisces_sun]

No, I don't wear makeup anyways. I even intend to be a hairy man beast for labor. I've quit shaving my body hair and no way am I shaving anything. I seriously doubt my midwife cares, and I sure don't...

 

[noon_child]

I love make-up but honestly didn't think about putting any on with my first. It's a good thing too as I don't think it would have looked to great after a 94hr labour!!

 

[Stacey_Ann]

Possibly, depends on the time of day I suppose.

With my son I'd had my eyebrows tinted and shaped and my lashes tinted a week or so b4 he was due so that I'd look alive in the first picture of us (fair haired and fair skinned).

I went into early labour at midnight, called the labour ward at around 04:30? They said to come in and get checked, I insisted on showering and washing/drying my hair before I left the house! It was more important that I was clean and felt clean than wearing makeup, although I'm sure I put on some concealer, tinted moisturiser and possibly some bronzer lol xx

 

[Stacey_Ann]

Possibly, depends on the time of day I suppose.

With my son I'd had my eyebrows tinted and shaped and my lashes tinted a week or so b4 he was due so that I'd look alive in the first picture of us (fair haired and fair skinned).

I went into early labour at midnight, called the labour ward at around 04:30? They said to come in and get checked, I insisted on showering and washing/drying my hair before I left the house! It was more important that I was clean and felt clean than wearing makeup, although I'm sure I put on some concealer, tinted moisturiser and possibly some bronzer lol xx

 

[Buttercup84]

If I don't have it on when I go into labour then I won't be putting it on, and i'll be removing mascara if I have that on so I don't end up with panda eyes!

 

[SisterRose]

I did wear make up in my first and second labour, but I was induced and so went to the hosptial already wearing make up and induction did take a while waiting for the pessary to work. Don't know why I bothered really, it never stays on in the end!

If I went in to labour naturally and contractions were coming I don't think that make up would be on my priority list, but who knows!