London: A recent study has shown that women spend, in total, three years of their lives simply getting ready to leave the house, a British newspaper reported.
On an average, the fairer sex spends almost one and a quarter hours getting dressed for every big night-out, taking into account the time needed for last-minute outfit changes, dress inspections in front of the mirror and poking through handbags.
Typically, 22 minutes are spent in showering and shaving their legs, seven minutes for moisturising or applying fake tans, 23 minutes doing hair and another 14 for make-up, leaving a mere six minutes for the actual process of getting dressed.
Women also typically require 40 minutes to get ready for work each morning and with the amount of time they spend preening, it all adds up to two years and nine months in a lifetime.
The study has been commissioned by Charlotte Newbert, who founded the Nephria beauty brand, the Daily Mail reported.
''It's amazing how our daily routine adds up. But by the time we shower and do our hair and make-up, it can take a while. Many women, and men for that matter, have a strict regime they stick to,” she said.
For men, though, the figures are dismal. They are more likely to spend three months of their lives waiting for their ladies to choose handbags or to try on a pair of shoes one more time.
Men also have to wait for about 17 minutes and 25 seconds whenever they go out with their partners, and for a little above an hour outside changing rooms when they go shopping.
Unsurprisingly, the study also said that almost 70 per cent of the men find the wait irksome; 10 per cent have even ended their relationships because of that.
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