Page 10 | Make up on the train: get up ten mins earlier

Trainarmrestfairy · 2025-06-17T06:01:39+00:00

Just get up ten minutes earlier!! It’s not hard. You’re taking up two seats. Your elbows are jabbing the person next to you. Your setting spray just hit me in the bloody face. And, even worse, you’ve painted your eyebrows on wonky because you’re on a moving bloody train!!!! Why do people not get up earlier?!

CoffeeCantata · 17/06/2025 07:43

A quick 'one two' with the lipstick - fine. Anything else - no way.

It's like taking over the public space (and a crowded public space too) as your own personal boudoir. I really resent it. Keep your elbows and arms to yourself and read a book.

Yes - fgs, get up 10 mins earlier!

SocksShmocks · 17/06/2025 07:43

Never done it myself and agree it’s annoying if people are inconsiderate (elbows out and spraying neighbours with setting spray absolutely not on). But I’ve voted YABU because I love watching people put their makeup on on the tube. It’s a rare sight but I truly enjoy it - seeing what the apply and how. And they’ve chosen to do it in public so I don’t feel bad for looking.

tuffinmops · 17/06/2025 07:43

Trainarmrestfairy · 17/06/2025 07:36

@phoenixrosehere train was standing room only by 06:45! And we’ve only just arrived in London.

She put on powder as well as liquid. Her setting spray hit me in the face. And she’s left dirty marks on the table as well from where the liquid foundation ran. Took about an hour for her to do everything

That is inconsiderate, but it doesn’t mean everyone putting on make up is. Me putting on a bit of mascara and lipstick doesn’t hurt anyone for instance

Original poster

Trainarmrestfairy · 17/06/2025 07:42

NHSinterviewupcoming · 17/06/2025 07:41

YABU. It doesn’t actually impact you, does it?

I got a mouth full of setting spray, as I explained in my OP! And she kept jabbing me with her elbows!

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legolegoeverywhereandnotadroptodrink · 17/06/2025 07:42

Neemie · 17/06/2025 07:37

Scrolling tik tok with no headphones, vaping, loud phone calls, putting feet on the seats, putting dogs on seats, vomiting, eating smelly food and leaving rubbish are things that people regularly do on trains that I find very annoying. Why would someone putting on make up bother you? It is about as annoying as someone reading a newspaper and takes up less space.

Ahhh i miss London

Pineapples123 · 17/06/2025 07:42

Trainarmrestfairy · 17/06/2025 07:36

@phoenixrosehere train was standing room only by 06:45! And we’ve only just arrived in London.

She put on powder as well as liquid. Her setting spray hit me in the face. And she’s left dirty marks on the table as well from where the liquid foundation ran. Took about an hour for her to do everything

Getting up ten minutes earlier wouldn’t have helped much if it took her an hour 😆

NHSinterviewupcoming · 17/06/2025 07:41

YABU. It doesn’t actually impact you, does it?

legolegoeverywhereandnotadroptodrink · 17/06/2025 07:41

I commuted for years. Left home at 6:30 evry day but still did my make up at home. In fact id do base at home and top up at the office in the loo

i hate to think eveyone is gawping at me painting my eyebrows on

Butchyrestingface · 17/06/2025 07:40

Trainarmrestfairy · 17/06/2025 07:36

@phoenixrosehere train was standing room only by 06:45! And we’ve only just arrived in London.

She put on powder as well as liquid. Her setting spray hit me in the face. And she’s left dirty marks on the table as well from where the liquid foundation ran. Took about an hour for her to do everything

I will say, if it took her an hour to do it, that probably explains why she didn’t get up 10 minutes earlier.

She’d still have had 50 minutes worth of make up to attend to on the train.

threenaancurrywhore · 17/06/2025 07:40

I find it quite entertaining. Watching someone squirt a giant handful of liquid foundation and rub it all in until their actual face is ghosted out, then they paint over it like decorating an egg. Good people-watching.

Butchyrestingface · 17/06/2025 07:39

Neemie · 17/06/2025 07:37

Scrolling tik tok with no headphones, vaping, loud phone calls, putting feet on the seats, putting dogs on seats, vomiting, eating smelly food and leaving rubbish are things that people regularly do on trains that I find very annoying. Why would someone putting on make up bother you? It is about as annoying as someone reading a newspaper and takes up less space.

She explained in the OP why it annoyed her?

AMillionTomorrows · 17/06/2025 07:39

Make up is stupid.

Neemie · 17/06/2025 07:37

Scrolling tik tok with no headphones, vaping, loud phone calls, putting feet on the seats, putting dogs on seats, vomiting, eating smelly food and leaving rubbish are things that people regularly do on trains that I find very annoying. Why would someone putting on make up bother you? It is about as annoying as someone reading a newspaper and takes up less space.

Original poster

Trainarmrestfairy · 17/06/2025 07:36

@phoenixrosehere train was standing room only by 06:45! And we’ve only just arrived in London.

She put on powder as well as liquid. Her setting spray hit me in the face. And she’s left dirty marks on the table as well from where the liquid foundation ran. Took about an hour for her to do everything

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GivingUpFinally · 17/06/2025 07:35

Meh, couldn't care any less about what others do. I'm in my own bubble on public transport for my own sanity. And, I'm currently doing my make up on the train. Just waiting to pull into a stop to do my eyeliner. No one is sat next to and my bag is on my lap.

I am on a commuter train line vut everyone heads to London and I'm going the other way. Loads of room and the carriage may be 30% occupied.

Fundayout2025 · 17/06/2025 07:34

I'm actually impressed when seeing people manage to put on makeup well on a bumpy train / bus / car ( passenger seat)..I have to watch what I'm doing and especially crap with eyeliner so have is tattooed on.

honeylulu · 17/06/2025 07:31

I get up at 5.50am to catch my train to London. No I'm not getting up any earlier, those last 10 minutes of sleep are too precious. Also I'm often rushing to the station, which is up a steep hill so my make up would be a sweaty mess if I did it first. Plus the rest of my family are asleep when I leave so I try to avoid any unnecessary clattering about.

I never elbow or spray anyone though. So I'm going to carry on decorating my face on my commute thanks.

phoenixrosehere · 17/06/2025 07:28

MuffinsAreJustCakesAtBreakfast · 17/06/2025 07:08

This used to annoy me in my twenties* but as I've got older I've mellowed.

Especially since I now live further out with a two hour commute and responsibilities to carry out at home before I even think of myself or leave for work. That being said, I don't apply make up on the train, but it doesn't bother me if others do.

I can't vote as the poll isn't detailed enough.

people who are putting make up on, without spraying things and taking up loads of room, elbows and paraphernalia firmly within the confines of one's own seat - not unreasonable and I'm so disinterested

someone applying make up, blowing bronzer from the fat kabuki brush everywhere, spraying setting spray, spreading the contents of their bag over the table etc etc - unreasonable

*when I lived five minutes walk from a zone six London tube, and my commute was short and I had all the time in the world at home before getting to my desk for 9am

Edited

Agree

Some people also have to walk to public transport through the elements or they sweat on their face so putting make-up on only to have to reapply it is silly, but there are always people who can’t think outside of their judgements because it doesn’t relate to them.

Same people moaning would judge someone not looking to their standards.

Is your train really that busy before 7am?

Clingfilm · 17/06/2025 07:27

I've never understood how this works, where do they wipe their hands, doesn't their top get full of powder, how do you put a whole face on with a compact? It's like decorating a room spying through a keyhole 🤣

Butchyrestingface · 17/06/2025 07:22

BallerinaRadio · 17/06/2025 07:16

Ok Judgy McJudgeface there's all sorts of reasons why they might be doing it, none of them to do with you 🙄

It kind of is if they’re spraying the stuff over her.

DappledThings · 17/06/2025 07:19

I've got up and moved seats before when someone started. It's so irritating and distracting. It's right up there for me with playing music/videos out loud without headphones or eating really smelly food.

ungratefulcat · 17/06/2025 07:18

Maybe train companies could install some make up areas with mirrors etc

I like that people use their commute efficiently, and I think we should encourage anything that gets people out of cars

But I agree I don't want to be covered in the detritus from someone else's makeup session. And it must be very unpleasant for anyone with asthma

Fratolish · 17/06/2025 07:16

I love watching people put on make up - I don't wear much myself so I find it fascinating.

Nobody should be jostling or spraying people with stuff though

BallerinaRadio · 17/06/2025 07:16

Ok Judgy McJudgeface there's all sorts of reasons why they might be doing it, none of them to do with you 🙄

Fizbosshoes · 17/06/2025 07:15

I'm always quite impressed/in awe of women able to do a full face of make up on a moving train with only a tiny compact mirror.

The same can't be said for the man who ate a bowl of cereal next to me and then spent about 20 minutes using a collection of interdental toothbrushes