One Woman's Routine

She is not high maintenance. Doesn't spend an hour getting ready. She isn't caked with make-up and hair-spray (she's rather natural looking). Now, having clarified that, for your interest read on for a sneak peek at one woman's morning routine... AND... all of this takes around about 20 minutes.

Weekdays

In the Shower

1. Shampoo hair
2. Use face scrub
3. Use face foam wash
4. Brush teeth
5. Shave (legs/under arms as required) - I sit on the floor of the shower to do this... some people apparently find this icky (obviously they don't clean their bathrooms too often) but I don't have an issue with it).
6. Scrub and Exfoliate Feet (if shaving)
7. Soap using Antibacterial/Antibiotic soap
8. Soap using lathering creamy nice smelling soap - mostly because I like the feel and smell of it
9. Condition Hair (leave for 5 minutes)
10. Attach body glove (there's an art of twisting and tucking)
11. Use body exfoliate with glove on one half of my body
12. Change body glove to other hand
13. Use body exfoliate with glove on other half of my body
14. Use shower body moisturiser with glove on other half of my body
15. Change body glove to other hand
16. Use shower body moisturiser with glove on one half of my body
17. Rinse hair and body
18. get out of shower

Post Shower

1. Put on a special hair towell
2. Apply deodorant
3. Apply Impulse Deodorant
4. Apply Perfume
5. Apply Eye Cream - I don't want grey marks under my eyes, I'm prone you know!
6. Face gel moisturiser
7. Palmers Body Moisturiser
8. Hair Conditioner Spray
9. Style Hair
10. Hairspray
11. Put on Make Up

Weekends

It depends on what I am doing, where I'm going, who I am seeing but I usually miss steps 1, 5, 6, 9,11,13 from Shower routine and miss steps 3, 4, 5, 10 of the post shower routine. I prefer the rock star chic look mangy hair, ponytails, and bare skin.

contributor: anonymous

and another

my routine:

(assuming ths shower is already on)

• shampoo hair
• rinse
• condition hair
• rinse
• wash body with soap
• wash face
• get out

and another

Weekdays

In the Shower (part 1 - pre-swimming)

1. Spray leave-in conditioner on hair and comb through.
2. Brush teeth.
3. Wash essential parts with soap (to make me acceptable to swim in a public pool)
4. Quickly shave. I usually stand up in the dark to do this. Not because I don't want to sit on the floor, just because I do a rush job of it. I prefer blunt blades (on weekends I use sharp ones sitting in the bath).
5. Get out of shower and dry off worst of drips.

Post Shower (at home)

1. Iron shirt while I drip dry and while nice man starts breakfast going.
2. Get dressed.
3. Help finish getting brekkie ready.
4. Eat breakfast, then walk fast to make the train.
5. Go to swimming pool (change to bathers, swim for 30-40 minutes).

In the Shower (part 2 - post-swimming)

1. Hope fervently that there isn't anyone else likely to be waiting around for the shower.
2. Wash hair.
3. Rinse bathers.
4. Only if there's no-one waiting: quickly run conditioner through hair.
5. Soap up with bubbly stuff provided by gym, rinse it off.

Post Shower (at gym)

1. Dry off.
2. Dry hair.
3. Add a leave-in conditioner if I didn't condition hair while in shower.
4. Get dressed.
5. Walk fast to get to work on time.

Weekends

Take bloody ages in the shower just because I can. Depending on my mood, requirements I may:

• Set a colour/conditioner in my hair for 20 minutes (to make up for the colour stripped by chlorine during the week).
• Leave a deep conditioner in my hair for 20 minutes.
• Scrub, exfoliate and moisturise feet.
• Shave properly (sitting in the bath using a sharp blade).
• Wash using masses of fruity shower gel stuff.
• Sit around in the bath for yonks and do a manicure and/or pedicure.

contributor: The Duchess of Fern