AIBU to be fed up with make up girl on train?

[Finola1step]

I commute in and out of London daily. I am now very used to seeing women every morning applying a full face on their way to work. I don't do this myself as I like to do my prep in privacy at home.

But.. I am sat next to a young woman with a caked on face who has whipped out the baby wipes. She has wiped off all the make up (before wiping her face on her jumper the dirty moo!) and is now reapplying. The whole lot! With dirty hands! Why?

What do I not get here? Would I be unreasonable to ask her why she thinks this is ok? Am I being a judgey old cow?

Wow. I was about to make some sarky remark about how putting a bit of makeup on was hardly changing a tampon in public.

BUT I SEE PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY DIRECTLY COMPARED THE TWO.

Unbelievable. I don't know how some of you manage to survive out in the world.

"I don't know how some of you manage to survive out in the world."

I don't go out in the world anymore. I stay at home and hang out on the sofa with my laptop and browse MN in my pjs.

How on earth do you even do that?

(The eyeliner/driving thing, not the sitting on the sofa in PJs MNing thing. I know how to do that.)

Oh, love a ranty thread about commuting make up trollops!

I hate watching other women apply their slap on the train - I think it is gross. Trying not to watch them gurn in the mirror as they do the mascara thing - some of them pick off pimples while they are at it. Bit of eyebrow plucking while we're there. Lovely! All with grubby commuter hands too. Urgh.

I'd find watching a bloke shave equally gross too - but thankfully that doesn't seem to have caught on yet.

I have seen this loads of times and never realised it was an issue in any way!! The only reason I wouldn't do it is because I would have to get to the train station and on the train with a bare face and the idea of that terrifies me!

I'm confused as how it impacts on anyone else tbh. I'm perfectly capable of 'putting on my face; without showering anyone else in powder and smearing lippie over them.

Oooo random semi colon there!

Can't believe someone has referred to is at "demeaning"!!!!!!

How in hell is it demeaning?!

I don't know how they do it without ruining their eye make up. I have enough problems in my own front room never mind on a train. I saw a woman on the tube the other day face painting herself (think she must have been a children's entertainer), now that's something you don't see every day. She painted a really beautiful butterfly design in about four minutes!

You're entitled to your opinion OP, but she's entitled to do something in public that isn't hurting anyone and I think you would be VU to tell her what she should and shouldn't do on a train within the context of the activity not actually hurting anyone. It's not like she'd taken out a vial of Ebolla virus and was sprinkling about the carriage.

Of course all people can put make up on in public - but by doing so, they have to accept that other people will find it gross.

It is not hurting anyone to pick your nose & fart in public either but people find that gross too!

I do it frequently as it allows me that little bit of extra time and I actually have peace and quiet to do it. Early morning trains are usually fairly quiet anyway, so I am pretty sure I am not disturbing anyone, and I get to partake in a personal pleasure, which I find make up application to be.

I don't find it disgusting, nor demeaning. Nor common for that matter. I see it all the time in the mornings when people are pushed for time. Fair enough. But I was fed up with the regular elbowing while she faffed around.

Am happy to accept that AIBU not to like the applying of make up on the train. Yep, not causing anyone any harm etc. But, basic manners would suggest that we should be aware of not allowing our actions to encroach on the personal space of others. Or so I would have thought.

I still don't quite understand why she went through the whole cleansing and re applying process when she already had a full face on and was on her way home. That I do find odd. But hey ho.

How is applying make up the same as farting or picking your nose?

Perhaps she was on her way out again after work OP, who knows?

valiumredhead - all very intimate & personal acts that other people don't want to see or hear!

Oh please! Make up isn't intimate and you can look the other way. Farting in public is disgusting and nose picking is dirty. Completely different things.

Haha, farting isn't something you can help, it comes when it comes surely?

OP, YANBU to be annoyed at stray elbows. But try would BU whatever the cause. The make-up is a bit of a red herring. It's perfectly possible to do train make up without battering the person next to you!

I don't think putting make-up on in public is wrong. But I do often see women doing it and think there is an element of 'performance' about it (See me put my face on! Marvel at my eyebrow pencilling-in technique! Check the load of blusher I use! Roll up! Roll Up!) that amuses me greatly.

She was probably going out somewhere, so wanted to reapply her faded makeup. The wipes would have cleaned her hands enough.
I wouldn't mind this. I'd probably see if i could get makeup application tips.