A thread I just read reminded me of an incident a couple of weeks ago.
I was on a really long flight and was waiting for my connection flight. The first flight had been overnight and I hadn't slept.
Was sat in departures, extremely bored and looking like a hot mess and decided to retouch my make-up. It wasn't busy and still a few people were staring at me.
A few people on the thread said that doing your make-up in public is rude and anti-social. I really just don't get how it's rude, it's just make-up which doesn't have a smell to it and as for anti-social - I wasn't planning on making conversation with the strangers sat opposite me.
I agree that in a certain situation such as in the middle of a job interview then yes it's rude.
But overall I really don't see the problem.
AIBU?
to think putting on your make-up in public isn't rude or anti-social?
MomentLostToTheSky · 09/03/2013 16:32
On a previous thread, I got told I smell like a wet dog because I don't blow dry my hair. 
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failOP you said this about my post:
See I really take offensive to that. I didn't start this thread to judge anyone who wears make-up or who decides not to wear make-up. It's personal choice.
But you have judged people that do by saying that they are wearing a mask. I don't wear so much make-up that if I went without it I would be completely unrecognisable.
I wish to clarify what I said. I called wearing make-up "wearing a mask." I did not mean "a mask" in the sense of something that renders someone unrecognisable. I meant "a mask" in the sense that disguises what someone truly looks like.
I wear make-up every day. Whether I am ill or well. Whether I am going out to a party or staying in all day. If I am going out to an exercise class first thing and likely to sweat it all off. If I were not going to see another human being for the whole day.
I feel deeply uncomfortable without it - I look as if I have just been dug up. However, as I do not wear mascara, or eye shadow, most people think I don't wear make-up at all. To me, make up is to make me look OK, healthy, a tad younger. Not to make me look like someone with fab make up.
I would still call it a mask. Because it masks the haggard horror that is my reality.
This is why I cannot comprehend why someone would stroll off to the station without make up on (like my sister used to) then sit and trowel it on in front of everyone on the train. If you consider that you look rough enough to need that much make up then IMO you need to apply it before you see anyone, even fellow commuters.
However, having read the OP again, any make-up is likely to have disappeared after a long-haul flight so I do not think these rules [of mine] apply in those circumstances.
Apologies OP, I did not mean to offend you.
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I don't think it's rude if others do it but I never do it myself. I even feel shy if I touch up at the mirror in the women's bathroom - do it whilst in the cubicle, before going to the loo (yes, one of those women who holds everyone up 
). I spend quite a bit of effort putting it on to look as natural as possible whilst actually still improving the way I look so I guess I don't want to shatter the illusion . Mum has always inculcated the notion that it's declasse to do it in public and I guess that has stuck with me although she never had any qualms applying lipstick in front of the mirrors at the women's loos.
Oh well I am common :) and I often touch up my make up in public :o 
never give it a second thought when I see others apply their make up in public unless I am liking the colour of their lipstick
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