How long do you take to get ready before you go out?

Well excluding a shower 15 mins max after hubby has taken a good hour to get ready...and then some as he normally pops in and out whilst I'm getting ready to check that his eyebrows are even...Men are really really really vain!

PS The older you get you learn the importance of regular good grooming that way you always look good and therefore it take a less time to get ready for important function like a ball or a prom.

Not that I've been to either for yonks.

I have never been to a ball or prom, but I have gotten 'seriously dressed up' to go out ... and it takes me about an hour to get ready. Okay, I am older (57) and was very young when I learned to get completely ready to go out in no more than two minutes when I was 'on call' as a 'suicide flyer' who talked people down from bridges or tall buildings ... you need to look 'perfect' and professional, and I was a 'workaholic' who had worked at least 12 hours during the day. Because of those experiences (and I have over 100 'saves' done at those times), I can get ready very fast. If it takes me an hour, it's because I want a nice relaxing bath, and a few minutes to catch up on my email before I go, so I don't have to worry about whether someone needs me. I'm a psychologist ... I'm retired now, but I still ALWAYS check my email an hour before I leave in case someone needs something, so I can relax and enjoy the 'occasion' before I leave. What is funny is that I wear two different pairs of glasses ... I wear my computer lenses around the apartment because I need to 'read' but also need to be able to clearly (fairly) see the stuff around me. I wear my 'distance' lenses when I go out, so I can see and focus on things farther away. If my husband 'interrupts' that changing of the glasses, I usually go out the door and am half a block away when I realize I'm wearing the wrong glasses. The half block doesn't bother me, but climbing the three flights of stairs to our 'walk up' apartment does ... he'll go, but sometimes I don't want to make him do that (even when he's the reason I'm wearing the wrong glasses) ... so I now have the 'habit' of setting everything I need to 'take' on our dining table and when I am picking that up, I change my glasses (which are on the table) ... I forget to do that ONLY when we are leaving 'in a hurry' and my husband is talking to or otherwise interrupting me.

I know that the amount of time it takes to get ready for something fancy, like a ball or a prom is inversely proportional to how often the person goes to such a thing. If I had to go to a ball or prom every week (and not as a chaperone ... I'm old and that is the most likely way I'd go, now) I could get ready in half an hour. If it was my first time to go, I would take two days to get ready ... have everything laid out in the order of wearing/carrying, stop to breathe deeply several times, to stare in the mirror and wonder who made me a princess/queen ... these days, I can decide to go somewhere fancy and be ready in half an hour ... and that is only if I need/want to take a bath first! Fifteen minutes, tops, from no makeup and 'house clothes' to fully dressed and made up and ready to go out the door ... and I am usually standing there, waiting, while my husband finishes getting ready! (Men supposedly are the ones who wait, but that has NEVER happened in our house.)

To a formal... Anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on whether or not I decide it's formal enough to try to tame my hair.

If not, slip into a dress and heels, 3-5 minutes for makeup and a brush through the hair, and I put on my jewelery (if any, usually not) on the way.

Usually, I take my shower long enough before hand for my hair to be dry, and I rarely do my nails

To a ball or prom or meet up with a sexy hunk? Uh probably 2 hours, otherwise 10 - 15 mins the max.

For a big event like that - probably 2 hours. I don't blow dry my hair, so when I wash it it takes quite a while to dry. Shower takes 20 minutes (washing hair, shaving legs included), make-up probably takes half an hour, then a good hour at least for puttering around, checking my outfit, trying on different clothes, jewelry, fiddling with my hair, asking my flatmate what she thinks of my outfit, showing her three other outfits then going back to the first one I tried, looking in the mirror 7,000 times, wishing I hadn´t had such a big dinner, making sure I have everything in my purse...

you understand... ;-)

When I was in high school, it took my friends and I about 2-3 hours to get ready for prom. On a normal day, it takes me about an hour

not including shower as i have one normally anyway.

curl hair 30 mins.

make up 30 mins max

get changed and put jewellery on 10 mins.

get bag ready 5 mins

so an hour and 15 mins =)

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o and including nails, another15 mins

so an hour and a half =)

Roughly an hour and a half or sometimes even 2 hours :)

But on regular days I get ready in 15 mins ^_^

regularly like an hour

but for ball or prom! whoaaaa probably like 2-3 hours!

im a little high maintance and i have to look perfect all the time lol

Usually 30 minutes tops.