She's not showering:

spritz your hair with volumizing root spray while using a round brush and blow dryer to remove stray kinks, bumps and frizz caused by sleeping

But seriously. This is kind of insane. Even if you do have to be very business formal/put togther.

— splash some water on your face, followed by gentle exfoliating cleanser, toner and preventative spot treatment

Okay, maybe get an all in one

— apply some combo of undereye serum, facial moisturizer, sunscreen, foundation primer, foundation, undereye concealer and a light dusting of powder

Okay, but how long is that taking?

— curl your eyelashes with a cold metal squeegee prod, avoid puncturing eyelid in process, fail 40% of the time, attend to punctured eyelid

Really necessary? If it is, FFS learn how to do it.

— apply basic eyeshadow, eyeliner, mascara and blush (remembering to blend, blend, blend) brush, highlight, tweeze, trim and fill in any spare patches in your eyebrows

She's tweezing her brows every day? How about a wax?

— spritz your hair with volumizing root spray while using a round brush and blow dryer to remove stray kinks, bumps and frizz caused by sleeping

— heat up curling iron and/or flat iron and apply to one-inch sections of hair until entire head covered and apply anti-frizz shine serum to ends of hair (or, in the alternative: style hair into twist, ponytail or other simple updo)

There are really a lot of new hairstyles out there. She might want to look into those.

— locate earrings in overnight jewelry-cleaner

— soak and place on ears, along with matching necklace, rings, bracelets or other trinkets

— apply perfume on pulse points

— run a deodorant stick under your arms

Minute and a half tops. Soaking, what?

— get dressed in a work-appropriate business casual ensemble, making sure to avoid cleavage, hemlines, fabrics styles, cuts, colors or trends that could be inappropriately distracting, whorey, casual or generally offensive to anyone working in a 2-block radius of your office building

Okay, that can take me longest because I'm indecisive. But if you're a lawyer in this kind of environment, don't you have that shit? I mean, it could be a challenge if her routine was to stop by H&M every morning to put together an outfit. But a closet full of suits is not really that hard to manage.

She claims it takes a female lawyer 45-75 minutes to groom on a weekday morning, and it's just not fair.

Not a lawyer, and I don't do all those things, but yeah I can see that. Particularly in a profession where you are presenting to people. God when I was client facing, I spent several HOURS (not all in the morning mind) on prepping my look.

As a male government lawyer, I don't do most of those. But I rarely have meetings in which I have to Look My Best. And even then, half the time I'm overdressed if I wear a suit.

But she seems to have left out a step or two. I mean, she doesn't brush her teeth?

I'm much higher maintenance than Calli; my list runs:

— splash some water on your face, followed by gentle exfoliating cleanser
— run a deodorant stick under your arms
— get dressed in a work-appropriate business casual ensemble, making sure to avoid cleavage

I also comb my hair and sometimes pat the top of my head with anti-frizz serum, about once or twice a week I'll dig through the jewelry box for a necklace, and maybe once a month I'll add earrings if they don't actively clash with anything else.

I always carry lipstick in my purse, but it only makes it onto my lips once every couple of weeks.

My friend's niece, a college student, spends 45 minutes just putting on her mascara. She's got some crazy regime involving 3 different kinds of mascara. It is, needless to say, NUTS!

Is she in New York? She should be getting a blow out twice a week that should cut down on the stuff that takes the most time.

I was going to say, if she's injuring herself so often curling her lashes, she's doing it wrong.

And this.

On the flip side, I don't think 45-75 minutes sounds that long.

Also, I didn't read the original post.

Did you read the whole post? It's totally "It's hard out there for a lawyeress."

I think it's hard out there for women whose careers depend at least partially on how they present themselves.

I have naturally very curly, very frizzy hair. For it to be any kind of tame, I'm looking at at least 30 minutes (I don't do that now, because I don't have clients). I have giant boobs that are even gianter on period days, so sometimes even my go to outfits aren't going to work. Pre any make up I tone, put anti-oil, moisturizer, eye-cream, primer, and even out (had to start this when my skin got all mottled while I was preggers).

All that ends up being a lot of work that men don't have to do, and money they don't have to spend.

My university is self-insured, so it is actually them raising the rates.

So basically they raised the rates because of peer pressure. Or rather, because everyone else was doing it, they figured they could, too.

Wow, that IS totally BS. Fuckers.

I have naturally very curly, very frizzy hair. For it to be any kind of tame, I'm looking at at least 30 minutes

That Jezebel article about the hair-straightening thing that has insane levels of formaldehyde -- there were quite a few comments that in "the professional world" (I don't remember if they specified which profession and/or which part of the country) having wavy/curly hair is seen as Not Professional.

I honestly don't know how true that is, but I can see it being an issue among professions where client interaction is an important part of the job, like DJ said.

Y'all need to see Chris Rock's documentary "Good Hair". It's insane.

Also, I take 25 minutes, including shower. And, it shows!