Toiletries/cosmetics around the yard

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A friend borrowed a squirt of Kelly's Skin-So-Soft the other day thinking it was body spray.

This set me thinking - I try to avoid anything too perfumed around the horses. No perfume, no make up, just a squirt of deodorant. And I never wear nail varnish at the yard, but most people do as they have acrylic nails (one of the girls is a nail technician and does mates rates), though I have been known to wear a tiny dab of lavender oil if I'm feeling specially nervous to disguise the scaredy smell. In fact, as I save money by using human products on Kelly whenever it's a cheaper alternative, she probably smells a lot more flowery than I do.

So, do you prefer to be au naturel round your horse, are you full slap, hair products and perfume, or somewhere in between?
 
Depends what I've been doing earlier in the day if I've been out or at work I'll have makeup on etc but I don't "do myself up" to go to the yard. Most of the time it's hair in a pony tail and baseball cap on! I never wear jewellery though at the yard, seen some nasty injuries.

I do try not to wear perfume around horses that don't know me as for some it can upset them, and never if I'm around Stallions. That's one thing I was taught at college!
 
My usual routine involves me getting out of bed, quickly dressing into my horse gear and then going to give them their breakfasts, then riding - so nowhere in this is make-up involved! I used to wear the full monty when on a yard, as I have a terrible skin which looks better covered in foundation! However, Storm doesn't mind and OH isn't scared off by it (not after 25 years anyhoo!lol).
I didn't know about the stallion thing until I read it on here! I had no idea they were such sensitive beasties!!!!
I try not to wear earrings either, as I am scared of losing them and one of the horses accidentally eating it!!!! Really rather paranoid about their food........!!!!!!
 
I have had working stallions for donkeys years, load of different personalities and breeds. Not once, not never not no how has any one of them reacted to anything I have been wearing.

I just wonder where it comes from. Imagine driving your stallion at a show, or down the road, stopping to pass the time of day with someone wearing perfume or whatever and your horse going ape........it jsut doesn't happen. Stallions would never be safe to take out in public if it were true. My stallions could ignore "eau de mare in season" if they were working, they are not stupid. Maybe if the horse is badly socialised and kept cooped up they can blame the bad behaviour on some innocent stable lass who washed in something other than carbolic.......sounds more like a myth made up by men to blame badly behaved stallions on women. ;)

The college students came to us pooing blue lights over the wives tales the college had told them about stallions. We had 4 of them on the yard at the time of different breeds.....neither did they react if anyone was on their period.

It's funny though, you are told not to wear any kind of cosmetics, but the next thing they do is smother the horse in some kind of "flavoured" shampoo/fly spray/calming unguent without a second thought about it.
 
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Most of the time, full slap, hair, makeup............there are however times
I arrive looking like I have been dragged thro' several hedges to get there:biggrin:

Sometimes I borrow their Skin-so-soft if I've been poo picking etc., or hands look a bit rough, sometimes
I squirt their fly spray if there are lots of flies, sometimes wear Madamoiselle Coco Chanel and sometimes
Impulse............(nobody ever rushes to give me flowers though, I do sometimes get given apples or
carrots for the Horses, lol)

quite honestly the Horses don't give two hoots what I wear or don't wear !!
 
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Wally - I did wonder about the stallion thing, I mean, some of the top dressage horses are stallions aren't they? I shouldn't imagine the audience when sat close don't smell of something perfumed at some point, lets face it, a lot of women and blokes were aftershave and perfume don't they?!! Mind you, the whole stallion thing totally confuzzles me. I have read one thing on here, read another thing there, seen and done another when we were on a yard and I still don't know what to believe! I approach 'em with caution.......
 
It depends what I've been doing earlier in the day - if I've been to work in my "other life" (I work bank shifts at the hospital) then I'll have make-up and perfume on, but if not then I'm up, brush my hair, clean my teeth, get dressed and go. OH has probably forgotten what I look like de-horsed as I am the Yard Manager at the yard, so usually my look is au-naturel :p (I often work the "windswept and interesting" look, or the "soaked to the skin" look too) :D
 
With me I get out of bed look at my reflection and if i look ' bad' i just think poppet wont care what i look like lol

Though it depends sometimes if i have been in town before, then i might go to yard covered in make up:)
 
really depends on where i've come from. If it's the weekend, i go with no makeup and bedhead hair. if i've come from work i'll be in full makeup and made hair. i do like nice nails, i paint them weekly. Have to as being around the horses chips them badly!
 
Wally said:
.......sounds more like a myth made up by men to blame badly behaved stallions on women. ;)
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Sounds like the fishing myth - because women have greater success fishing than men do, it's been put down to female pheromones attracting the fish - now disproved - women are just better at fishing...:bounce:
 
I wear whatever i want! Hair products, perfume, nail varnish - and ALWAYS makeup, i don't go anywhere without makeup.

Both my stallion and my rig are perfectly fine, they don't take a blind bit of notice of what i smell like....
 
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