False eyelashes on the school run?

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AIBU to think this is excessive? And when worn in conjunction with 4 inch heels, full fake tan, clothes suitable for a nightclub and hairpieces AIBU to think it's laughably over the top for the school run?

Said woman has told me she gets up at 5am every school day to get ready.

This thread stinks of hypocrisy. Those saying the OP is out of order, then going and making judgements of the OP themselves, pot kettle black springs to mind.

Practice what you preach and all that jazz.

Now I'm perplexed.

Where are the trolls?

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I am confused. Are we allowed to bully people wearing animal pyjamas or not.

I need something more definitive. Everyone is skirting around the issue.

You can bully them Pagwatch but you musn't judge them.

Yes. But only if they're also wearing Uggs. I think.

Oh so this is where the bunfight is today..

I judge bullies

And the most childish post award goes to....

takes one to know one dearie

The 'dearie' won it for me.

Gosh this is a bit of a storm in a teacup isn't it!
Clearly I am a truly vile person as I frequently perform a scathing mental critique of other mums' clothes. It passes the time. On the many, many occasions when I look shit, it warms my soul to know that I'm 'paying it forward' to those around me, who in turn can judge away. Life's all the richer for a little lighthearted judging IMO, and it's utterly preposterous to suggest that the woman the OP's describing will be able to identify herself as the subject of this thread! wonders if it's me

Am late to the bunfight - were all those deletions really necessary HQ, aren't we in danger of becoming a bit bland here nowadays? - and just want to agree wholeheartedly and 100% with wot LumpyLatimer said at 12.41.

"Bullying eh? Surely it is more bullying-ish to pick on the OP, comment on her personality and looks and motivations when she is here in her actual virtual self to read what it being written?"

Quite!

Somehow the subject of the OP is being bullied. subliminally or by osmosis or something.

I would never wear false eyelashes and I think it's a sad reflection of our society that so many women are obsessed with their appearance. However, if it makes her happy, who am I to judge? In the same vein, I would hope none of the glamorous mums are judging me for turning up in the same clothes three days running and/or because I got up too late to comb my hair.
I just read the first and last pages of this thread and just want to respond to the OP.

But, everlong, I don't think the op really minds about what other people wear on the school run. She was just musing, as someone else said.

Dear God, if we can't have some pointless opportunities to chew the cud with other Mumsnetters ... then this place will become very very dull indeed.

I see some outfits on the school run that make me go and I wish no ill on the wearer's heads whatsoever.

When people make a huge and extraordinary effort with their appearance like that they want to be noticed, they want to have an impact. She must realise that her appearance is unconventional on the school run but she sounds like a confident individual to me. I doubt she would think of this thread as bullying.

Personally I like to think of her hanging out in Style and Beauty giving tips on how to keep your falsies adhered in the rain and such like.

Good luck to her, I look at these made up mums at school and just wish I had the energy, instead I'm stood next to them in my trainers and walking coat

The point is, Bibbity that in insulting the woman who dresses 'up' for the school run, there's a risk that great swaythes of the MN AIBU population are swept up in it, who might dress in a similar way. There's a way to be amusing and then there's bitchy.

To me, a bitchy thread is really quite dull in itself because the posts get deleted and it makes no sense to anybody reading it then. The trouble is that you're writing to an audience you don't know. I'd probably have written the same thread but about myself and OTT dressing for things, without the sneery judgements bandied about everybody else who either does or doesn't do the same thing.

Everyone is mad

Does that about sum it up?

Can someone point me in the direction of the larfs?