I say,
"phooey(!) on this 'feels so good, macho stuff."

Bee stings are
supposed to hurt, and so your natural reaction should be to prudently avoid them.
For example ... go ahead, spend $20, and
buy a bee veil (and a straw-hat to put it on), so that honeybees will never again sting you in the face. Ditto a pair of long-sleeved lightweight leather bee-gloves, both so that you can keep your hands clean and so that they won't sting you in the fingers.
Beyond
that, hey, it's entirely up to you. As for
me, a lightweight set of painter's coveralls, full of plentious pockets(!), was a mighty great investment.
"Stinging," after all, "is what honeybees
do." But that don't mean that you have to put up with it.
Yeah, yeah. I
have worked with my bees in the northwest Georgia (USA) summertime, in shorts and a T-shirt, but the thought
does occur to me that maybe the insects thought that I
stunk as bad as I probably did. So, mebbe they had mercy on me.

Anyhow, I decided that what I needed was: a sting-free face, clean hands, and plenty o' pockets. Works for me.