Ladies do you fan your face when excited?

Ha, this also reminds me of when people get excited and feel the need to jump up and down over and over. I've always thought it looks a bit stupid. I never want to be that girl. However, I do wave my hand like a mad woman if I slam my finger in a door or hit it with a hammer. No idea why though.

Haha! That is too funny! I actually do fan my face with my hands if my face gets hot. But that is only if nothing else convenient is around. It totally works for me. I mostly do it if I get embarassed and my face gets really hot and red or if I am sweating. I also do it if I am on the verge of crying and I am trying to dry my tears before the streak down my face and ruin my makeup. Good question! It reminds me of that movie with Sandra Bullock and she is making fun of beauty contestans who fan their faces. And she ends up doing it too. :)

Maybe they are told to do that before they go on. lol I think it's that they're warm because they're all excited, not sure. I have spun that Price is Right wheel, btw. That suckah is HEAVY!!!

I might fan my face with a magazine or something if it was particularly warm but I dont get the idea behind the game show/beauty pageant type face fanning. I think its just for effect... and looks somewhat 'soppy-girlie'

Hi stealthy...I have seen alot of women do this but I think it is just plan stupid. There is no way they are fanning their ha=nd enough to cool anything down I think if is just a forem of excitement becasue they don'r know of anything else to do with their hands. I was watching a game show one day and one lady got to fanning her hands so fast she actually clouted the emcee in the nose and broke it....God that was so funny but not to him flutterby

no deffidently not lol id never fan my face because i was excited..i might get a lil antsy but other than that there really isnt a reaction ..but the girls who do do it are mainly trying to either get attention or thats just what they've done thier entire lives idk but id like to know who they learned it from.....lol

i don't... i don't know why they are doing that during the game show... i guess it is only for show... i take a deep breathe and let it out when i feel excited... but not fanning my face... i feel silly if i do that... take care and have a nice day...

To be honest, when I saw the title of this discussion the first thing that popped into my mind were movies of swooning women, and t.v. shows of swooning women. I think it's the trademark sign of a woman feeling flirtatious and / or very happy to see a man. Then again i do realize there are other uses for such a gesture. No I have not done this myself, or not to my knowledge. If I have, I can tell you it has not been as much as some people probably do, lol.

I don't personally. But I remember a classmate who does. She often does it when she's excited or when she is blushing. Of course, it is not effective in making the blush go away or things like that. As such, I have no idea why she still does it.

I'm not sure if it's so much to cool them down as it is to calm their breathing. I often find that when I get overly-excited about something, so much so that my heart rate increases, I exhibit typically hyperactive behaviour and this, I'm afraid to admit, is one of them. I get jittery and fidget a lot, I don't really pay attention so much to what I'm doing but I'm more likely to squeal or babble relentlessly to anybody who will listen. I agree that mostly, it is a sort of stereotypical display of "girlishness", giddiness, easily excitable, over-the-top. We all know the sort. Note how you never see a man doing this particularly. This reminds me, actually, of a program (I don't know if you'd know it) called You've Been Framed, in Britain. They showed a selection of clips showing people gasping in shock, holding on to their noses as if they were about to fall off. It might not sound funny to describe but it's a similar sort of thing.

Perhaps they don't realize what they're doing on a game show. I mean would you care if you look dumb if fanning your face calms your nerves and you leave the show about twenty times richer than before? I certainly wouldn't... I may have to fan my face whenever I'm playing a game, I'll see if it works. LOL