Make up on the train: get up ten mins earlier

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And fixing the hair 😱! We had a needlework teacher at school who always maintained that “smart girls don’t brush their hair in public” ! To which my best friend, a bit of a rebel I must say, responded with “ oh yes Miss, but smart girls don’t have to”!

You don't believe there are inconsiderate people around?

I find it very believable and understandable why someone would start a thread moaning about make up after being jabbed by another passenger's elbows and hit with setting spray. Whether you think the OP is reasonable or not to generalise from this experience about ALL make up applications on public transport is a different thing.

But I don't automatically disbelieve there are people out there using public transport who give no thought to those around them. Happens all the time.

If you had got up a bit earlier and taken an earlier train, youd probably have been less cramped or bothered by other people in a rush.

Are you really that affronted by someone putting on some blush or powder? It’s not the 1940’s!!!

Sorry. My point was probably too subtle. What I am saying is that considering the extremely anti-social behaviour you regularly get on public transport, make-up application is a surprising thing to get annoyed about. If that is is still too subtle. I’m saying OP sounds like a bit of a snob who holds women to a higher standard than the rest of the population.

I agree with another poster - it’s an efficient use of time. Personally, I wouldn’t love being sprayed with setting spray, but other than that, I wouldn’t have an issue with it.
Much better than some of the things men get up to, like flossing or cutting their toenails on public transport. I've witnessed one delightful chap cutting his toenails on the central line and a toenail clipping actually landed in the book of the person sitting next to him. Grim!

I am always in awe of women who do their make up on the tube - they do it brilliantly, no smudges or smears. They always look fantastic at the end of the process. It's like it's their super power.

This comment is just so bonkers!

If you've never experienced this behaviour, or haven't ability to imagine how it might impact others, pps are telling you just how it actually does on this thread.

Yes, I've been caught in the spray of substances scent, hairspray - which you can actually taste - ugh) in the past, nudged in the ribs on a crowded tube, and not known where to look while someone co-opts the tube carriage as their private bathroom.

I don't see much difference between applying makeup in a public place and having a wash, cutting nails, brushing hair, shaving, brushing teeth, applying medicinal creams. All stuff that should be done in private. That's before we even start on why so many women feel they are not properly equipped for the working day without applying make-up, and would expect to be judged and found wanting if they didn't use it. It's all so sexist. Hardly any men wear make-up and no one is affronted.

I used to do mine on the bus ,I could even do winged eyeliner when it stopped at the traffic lights 😂 setting spray wasn't around back then so didn't use that and wouldn't have used it as not fair on other passengers. I love watching people put on make up,it passes the time.

It’s personal care which should be done in relative privacy. These days people just don’t care and accuse others of being judgmental, which is apparently worse than conducting grooming sessions in public.

I'm 'timeblind' late to everything and if i was to wear make up this would 100% be me!!
those who are good with time can never understand ! Those who are not good with time have every intention of getting up earlier and leaving time but it just doesn't happen !

Yes agree. I couldn't care less what other people do, but for me the faff of taking my makeup in my already too heavy work bag, and trying to apply it on a bumpy train journey, has always made me get up in time to never have to bother!

I’m always wondering why people don’t get up earlier. One woman arrives at work, late every day. Comes rushing in ‘oh sorry sorry’ only lives up the road.

Course she did.

I agree

If she was doing an hour's make up then it makes sense to do it on the train and if she was elbowing you then you should have said something

Being asthmatic, I’m not a fan of people who douse themselves in perfume on the train, regardless of how busy the carriage is.

Not as bad as people eating fast food that makes the whole carriage stink of stale fat and rank meat. Or as bad as teen boys all spraying Lynx after sports training, instead of bothering to shower, triggering my asthma so I have to run into another carriage. Or drunken men braying football songs for hours on end. Or drunken men telling me their sob stories. Or drunken men trying to chat me up. Or drunken men trying to chat up my husband in front of me. Or drunken men trying to chat up my young sons in front of me and getting very hostile when I challenge them.
Public transport is... public.

Personally I am intrigued by women who apply make up, as long as there's no asthma-triggering spray. I watched a woman get on a train looking rough, haystack bed hair, bags under eyes, patchy skin. Twenty minutes later she got off with full make up and a chignon, looking like a glossy Parisian executive. It was performance art!

Your title is wrong though, you just said it took her an hour to do her make up, so she'd have had to get up an hour earlier. Then sit staring out the window on her at least an hour long commute. Why not make use of the time? I think it feeds into a myth that women should just wake up naturally with a full face of make up on. She's spoiling the illusion for everyone. I commute by train and putting make up on doesn't even register with me compared to the things people do on trains that bother me. I wish the people who really smell of BO would get up 10 mins earlier and take a shower and brush their teeth.

I think spending an hour on a full face of make up wouldn't be solved by getting up ten minutes earlier OP...

This always just made sense to me. I travelled by train to work, 45 mins each way, you're literally sitting wasting time you may as well do make up, eat breakfast, complete work etc.

I put my 5- min makeup on when I am on the 30 min park & ride. I use 2 seats for my journey, but the bus is virtually empty.

I do it because I have limited time; get up, sort out kids, drop DC off to school, drive to park & ride and go to work in city centre. The boring bus ride in consistent traffic jam is the bane of my life and I try to use it productively. Plus I cleanse, tone and moisturise before I leave and let it sink in. I also so my emails, WhatsApp and admin on the bus.

Of course it’s well known that rail passengers in other parts of the country are consideration personified.

How does being elbowed or hit in the face with setting spray NOT affect her?

Are people actually reading the OP?