To think this was a little passive aggressive/bitchy?

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I was in the playground with DD earlier and got chatting to a mother of one of the children DD was playing with. Almost straight away she kind of did a really patronizing but still totally polite laugh and said God fair play to you getting all dressed up for the playground, I couldn't be bothered with all that! I just laughed it off but she brought it up again, though not rudely I just got a nasty vibe from it like she was laughing at me. For reference I was wearing a €7 dress from Primark, black tights, biker jacket and flat boots?! Hardly red carpet material!

But then she saw me waving to a woman I used to work with who was with a friend and she sighed/laughed and said "Oh Jesus more movie stars" before moving off.

I'm annoyed with myself for being annoyed but it's really riled me up, I would never comment on somebody's clothes/look other than to compliment them but it felt like she was totally making a laugh out of me or insinuating something I can't even put my finger on!

Just read the last part of your comment Tiki I don't wear make up because I feel I need to in order to look good. I wear it because I enjoy the different colours, smells etc. I find applying it relaxing. I look perfectly fine without it.

Although I'm yet to meet anyone who wouldn't look a bit better with some. So if that's going your main reason for wearing it, maybe you should try it.

She sounds a bit insecure and jealous. Why else would she try to make you feel bad? What you were wearing sounds totally fine! Here's Elle McPherson on the school run, just to put things in persective!

I only wear make up for work really, two days a week but I do tint my eyelashes so kind of feel 'done' anyway. She obviously felt a bit unglamorous next to you. Take it as a compliment, even though she was being a bitch.

I think she is putting herself down OP.

We have a lady at work who has form for complimenting people on how skinny and pretty they are and then turns it around to how fat and ugly she is. The way she does it is a bit sneery and uncomfortable. I used to tell her off for being so down on herself and she is lovely. Maybe you could say to playground lady something along the lines of she always looks lovely too?

Totally agree with everyone, the comment was about her not you.

Btw I know someone who teaches at the school that Elle Macphersons kids go to and she says 99% of the time the nanny does drop off and pick up, and Elle only appears when she has something to promote and photographers have always been tipped off, as they aren't there most of the time!

I find it more unusual that people don't wear make up tbh. Most of my friends do. Doesn't mean though that I would ever comment on someone else!

I have a really fab friend who is completely different to me.

I have always worn makeup. Not a massive amount but I had bad skin from a young age and it's become like a security blanket. I like wearing it. I wear good quality organic mineral makeup that doesn't harm my skin and I feel better wearing it.

That said I'm always in jeans and converse or plimsoles etc.

My friend has dogs and horses and is always commenting how she doesn't wear make up. Makes me feel weird the way she says it but she doesn't mean it in a funny way. She's always saying negative things about the way she looks.

She shouldn't though as she is gorgeous!

I'm glad this isn't one of those fucking (excuse language) threads full of mums who claim they are the best mums in the world because they -

Don't wear make up, have a dirty messy house, never leave their children or put them in nursery, don't care about what they wear etc, etc.

I call them the 'put down police'. Constantly policing mums net looking for opportunities to lay down their weird views of the mum law and what they think makes a good mum.