Who should have been responsible for baby in this situation?

better, yes, but not completely different.

And sadly, most people don't apply it properly, (i suspect they insist on ignoring how different you look in natural light) but that's another thread - if they are happy with their face, who cares. It's sometimes a bit weird, but their choice.

If you look exhausted after surgery or giving birth or whatever, make-up is great, but you still look exhausted, that's life

you know make-up is just make-up, it's not a mask 😂

It does not miraculously make you look different. It might work on photos where you need to be literally caked in make-up but in real life, it shows.

The more deluded people are, the more layers they add and it's not pretty. We can see 😉

But you alternate. This weekend away is just about the first real time to herself the op has had since her 5 month old baby is born. That deserves a little support from the partner who hasn’t been pulling his dad weight doesn’t it?

But you alternate. This weekend away is just about the first real time to herself the op has had since her 5 month old baby is born. That deserves a little support from the partner who hasn’t been pulling his dad weight doesn’t it?

Whenever one of us is away for the day or out for fun we always give the other a lie in or time to relax in the morning.

Even if he had not been working I would have looked after the baby from 7am so he could relax a bit before a full on weekend. It’s a bit precious not to expect to be feeling rushed with a small one about or have several hours to do make up ect. I’d be annoyed if I was him.

Ah yes, she should have just chilled while minding the baby. Why do any new mums want chill time anyway, isnt having a new baby chill time?
if having a baby is such chill time why doesn’t this dad do more of it?

I have plenty of friends thank you. Maybe I see tjings differently as I am an older mum (babies born at 39) I have triplets and there’s just me. So popping off for a weekend away without them is near on impossible. ! (But I’ve been away plenty with them ahaving wonderful adventures nd we’ve travelled and explored far and wide). As an older mum I’d done plenty of holidays and great nights out with friends long before they came along. I see this as a different chapter - one I love, of course I have nights out (paid for babysitter comes) but the days of spending 2 hours getting ready are behind me temporarily. And certainly not something I’d complain about. It’s just a different mindset.

btw - am sure it’s lovely to pamper yourself with your mum. As im 50 odd, Mine isn’t around anymore. My dad is, he’s 88. I see him my daily to help him with daily life.

so full time serious job, multiples, elderly father - prob why Im less empathetic about op not having time to do her make up. But I guess I should realise everyone has different tjings going on.

that wasn't the point at all, no one said she couldn't wear make-up.
We are saying she is hugely unreasonable to book a weekend away with friends leaving the baby with her husband (that is NOT the unreasonable part), but waking up her husband at dawn after he worked later so she could faff around in peace.

There was no need to wake up her husband, who has been working all week and who will be left with the baby all weekend (again, NOT unreasonable). She should have just kept the baby while doing her make-up or having a cup of coffee or whatever chilling she wanted to do, before having an entire weekend off, baby free time - before coming back so her husband could go back to work himself.

regardless of people who feel personally offended (despite being on an anonymous forum where no-one knows what they look like, so seems we touched a nerve 😂)

if you couldn't do your make-up with a baby in the room, most of us wouldn't be wearing make-up which was the point of the thread. It's not an excuse to wake-up someone, that was the actual point.

It's kind of sad some women feel they need make -up in order to "not look like shit"

Don't worry about me 😉, but wearing make-up doesn't mean I am blind or don't notice other people.

I don't think you're wearing your makeup right...

you know make-up is just make-up, it's not a mask 😂

It does not miraculously make you look different. It might work on photos where you need to be literally caked in make-up but in real life, it shows.

The more deluded people are, the more layers they add and it's not pretty. We can see 😉

@BubblesandTiara

make up if correctly applied makes EVERYONE look better, because that’s it literal purpose, it’s what it’s designed to do

@3point5

i mean with all due respect, what you think about makeup is irrelevant. OP clearly likes it and wants to wear it and it makes her feel better about herself so she should be able to.

you know make-up is just make-up, it's not a mask 😂

It does not miraculously make you look different. It might work on photos where you need to be literally caked in make-up but in real life, it shows.

The more deluded people are, the more layers they add and it's not pretty. We can see 😉

Speak for yourself!

the sad thing is when you look like shit, you still look like shit but with make-up 😂

I love make-up far too much, but it's not an instagram filter, you look like you more than people realise.

I was reflecting on this and thinking maybe it's because I had my children in my late 20s that I didn't need make up when they were little. But to be honest I rarely bother with makeup even now.

Men seem to navigate life without spending an hour a day coating themselves in gloop

I understand doing it as a nice relaxing routine but I think it's just desperately sad if people actually dislike how they look without any makeup on

I was reflecting on this and thinking maybe it's because I had my children in my late 20s that I didn't need make up when they were little. But to be honest I rarely bother with makeup even now.

Men seem to navigate life without spending an hour a day coating themselves in gloop

I understand doing it as a nice relaxing routine but I think it's just desperately sad if people actually dislike how they look without any makeup on

Go back to your original comment, slating this woman and making her feel bad and saying she should want to spend more time cuddling her baby!! Really!!!