DHAKA: The average woman will spend more of her life wearing make-up than not, according to a new report.

In a typical day, women will have a face full of cosmetics for nearly 13 hours a day and will have just 11 hours free from it

Researchers surveyed a total of 2,000 women in a detailed study about women’s make-up habits and beauty routines, reports dailymail.co.uk.

The poll by health and wellbeing brand Beurer found the typical woman puts on her ‘face’ at precisely 8am and spends 11 minutes applying it.

But it is not until 8.47pm that the average woman then removes her make-up. A quarter of women said they don’t remove their face until gone 10.30pm.

It’s hardly surprising then that 58 percent of those polled said they make a point of leaving their make-up on all evening if they know guests might be popping in.

And half of the women polled said they spend more time with their make-up on rather than a fresh faced look.

Robert Slade, Sales & Marketing Director of Beurer UK said, ‘This research shows that many women spend a large part of their time with make-up on’.

‘It can no doubt boost your confidence and make you feel better about yourself so it’s not surprising that many women insist on keeping it on all day. Despite that it is important to give your skin a break from time to time and to give it the care it needs.’

Nearly one in five women said they would refuse to open the front door if they didn’t have a face full of make-up and 10 percent said the more make-up they have on the better they feel.

In fact 38 percent are so reluctant to take it off they admitted to frequently going to bed with all their make-up intact.

BDST: 1436 HRS, JAN 30, 2014