Make up on the train: get up ten mins earlier

Doing my make up at home this morning! Because I’ve got time. I didn’t get up ANY earlier, I just haven’t had anything unexpected to derail my schedule. Everyone can breathe a huge sigh of relief! 🙄

If I can get a seat on the tube I’m going to do my make up. No sprays or smelly stuff like perfume or nail varnish, that’s not cool.

Don't mind about make-up. But eating breakfast on the train, if it's something porridgey or smelly - no. You're just showing off.

It’s not ironic at all, they are clearly choosing to wear makeup up but are quite obviously perfectly happy to be seen without it hence leaving their house makeup free. You are completely making up that they absolutely cannot be seen without makeup.

I know. It’s really harsh. By association I am weird, unpleasant and lazy. Im none of these, I’m just efficiently using my time on a commute when needs must. I do think people who judge others like this must have a deeply critical inner voice. It makes me feel sad for them to be honest; it must be awful feeling so vitriolic towards another human for such an innocuous reason.

Well I do it when needs must and I don’t think it’s weird and unpleasant at all. Maybe it’s a generation thing. Or a ‘got better things to get worried about’ thing 🤷‍♀️

But wouldn’t you feel the same way if the host sat down and read a paper/played on their phone/put headphones on and listened to a podcast? Being a passenger on a train is different than hosting a dinner…

‘Too lazy’, ‘weird and unpleasant’ - again I think this is a strong reaction to women choosing to save 10 mins in the morning by putting a bit of make up on on the train. Do you judge yourself so harshly or just other women who choose to step outside of the rules you’ve decided we should all follow?

Indeed. It was the first time she’d been to Paris & was impressed by the sights, but that was her most memorable event. What prowess on a moving train!

I became an absolute pro in doing eyeliner on a train 🤣🤣 but I never sprayed anything

chill, it's weird and unpleasant to do this in public and you know it.

I am not extrapolating: they have decided they MUST be wearing make-up, or they wouldn't be doing it, they are too lazy to do it in the privacy of their own home, but it's ironic that they don't want people to see them without make-up for the rest of the day.. while a carriage full of people is fine. 😂

I am not tutting, I roll my eyes, (already covered in make-up because I happen to like make-up), or we make fun at "those" women who make such a public show because sometimes it's so funny other commuters can't help laughing.

Quelle horreur! 😱

If you had guests round for dinner it would be weird if you sat beside them on the sofa and started doing your makeup. I don’t know why but it would feel so disrespectful. I know it’s not quite analogous, but that is how I feel when people do their makeup on the train. It feels as though they are using the space as their personal dressing room regardless of everyone else.

Laugh emoji has gone but this has totally made me lol

Yep. My sister was in a train in Paris & watched a woman shave her chin hair with a razor blade. Fascinating!

Skipped to the last page and the comments are utterly fucking outrageous lol.

You would think she was giving a blowy under the table while punching a kitten with the reactions on here.

I can't believe the capacity for anger some people have around non issues and things that do not have any impact on them whatsoever😂

Yes, I agree nail polish is too much! Too smelly.

i don't care about make up, no more annoying than someone next to you flicking around on their phone!

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It was very weird as there were lots of seats available.
Id had a bad morning too. She nearly made me cry with her unnecessary nastiness but after being totally taken aback I took a deep breath and filled her in on what time I’d got up and what I’d managed to do in the 3 hours between then and encountering her on the bus as I’m a fkn people pleaser so i obviously felt I should explain myself. In hindsight she was probably just a bit jealous that I could make myself look office ready ‘presentable’ and ready to kick arse in a stressful job on a moving bus jammed next to a complete stranger who was taking up half of my seat too, (having just completed 10 k and wrested two kids and ran for said bus) Whereas no amount of make up (applied within or out of the home) could mask her inner judgey nasty core, and cats bum face 😂

But she was getting herself presentable for work. Why should she have had to get up even earlier to do it at home just to appease the social sensibilities of strangers on the bus?

If you ask me, it’s weirder to jam yourself up next to a stranger on a bus when other seats are available, than it is to do your makeup on said bus.

So the way you judge ‘some’ other women then? It’s great just cracking on not letting other women’s choices bother you. Fair enough if like the OP you’re getting disturbed then by all means say something to them directly. But to sit tut tutting at ‘those’ women and extrapolating why they might be doing it says more about your own internal issues than anything.

I don't judge "women". I am one.

I am commenting on the ones who do their make-up in a public place. It's at most one in a full carriage, it's not a "women" issue, it's some very specific individuals. Most of us do it at home, or somewhere else (or not at all).

Are you including yourself in that group, is that what it is?

The premise of Mumsnet is that we discuss shit that has nowt to do with us.

I don’t but it’s never really bothered me. If you’re doing it on a train right in my line of view, however, I feel I have every right to watch avidly - and maybe pick up some tips!

I love watching people do this. I find it fascinating seeing the different products people use. I've worn make up pretty much every day for over 40 years and I still think I might not be doing it right. So I love the confidence of those who do it in public.