Just how bad is it to apply make-up at your desk? And what about cyclists getting changed and draping their kit all over the place?

[ChickenVindaloo]

Following on from the thread about eating breakfast at work, can we discuss applying make-up at your desk?

I have a complicated skin-care routine and like to have time for my various creams to sink in before applying make-up. I also find that I get sweaty on my commute (I'm unfit) or my make-up can be ruined by rain.

I get to work via a combination of very busy buses/car/walking. (On different days).

Does it matter if the office is open-plan or more private? Is it wrong to apply perfume? Most of my colleagues are other women, if that matters. Does it depend if it's full on contouring vs a bit of lipgloss?

Also, some folk cycle and change at work. The office then looks like a teenager's bedroom with clothes draped everywhere.

Many thanks for your thoughts!

Poppy Hmm you are very over invested in this. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. I bet you sit on the train applying your make up whilst filled with self loathing.

It's amazing how people stoop so low to call others ill bred and lacking in class simply for the heinous crime of applying makeup in a train carriage!

What charm school did you attend Poppy or was it Lucie Claytons?

I think I'll check the class credentials and breeding of the makeup appliers starting this Monday.

Again Poppy if you voiced such opinions you'd get short thrift and very much a head tilt as to enquire are you ok? Have you got nothing better to do with your time than to judge me??!!

beebeautiful

"Haha poppy! You are clearly low in self esteem bless you.

Ps I don't like towie.

You need to find yourself some happiness instead of being so rude & judgemental. Thank god I don't know you in real life!"

I don't think we move in the same sorts of circles...

May I say I find the head tilt thing some of you do quite amusing. I think you imagine you land a body blow when you do it. Actually, I imagine you are gritting your teeth as you head-tilt!! Lol

"I think I'll check the class credentials and breeding of the makeup appliers starting this Monday."

Sounds like an excellent plan.
Check if some of them have the folllowing names while you're at it:

Kayleigh
Kylie
Keeley
Macaila
Jade
Summer
Britney
Destiny
Kiah
Taya
Rochelle
Tanisha
Kimberley
Roxy
Aleesha

Poppy seriously are you ok? Either you really dislike yourself or something horrible has happened to you.

Really hope you get better soon x

Nice try!

poppy have you not noticed one Kylie Morris of channel 4 news currently reporting on the American elections, Aleesha Dixon (strictly winner), Kimberly Walsh (Girls Aloud), Britney Spears, Jade Jagger, ooh can't be bothered to search my database, many of these women may be below you (YOUR WORDS) by dint of having a certain name, but you can bet they're not as ill mannered or snobbish as you are.

Also do you not get irony? Appears not.

Either you've had wine o'clock Poppy dearie or you're just unhinged, which is it? Attacking posters left right and centre now aren't we dear??

Thank the lord above that he didn't make us all the same!

Have a wonderful weekend all x

woowoo you're entitled to your opinion but the charming poppy seems to have taken it one step further!

And poppy just comes across as an insufferable snob stuck in her ivory tower.

(where is the eating breakfast at your desk thread as I'm very interested in that?)

Make-up and perfume are both for the bathroom. I suffer from allergies and feel unwell if people spray perfume around the office or, even worse, in the lift. But even if I didn't, it would still be inappropriate. I'm also unimpressed by people applying make-up on buses, trains, etc.

A woman sat next to me on the train yesterday and applied a full face... I judged said nothing until she took out her hairbrush and started to brush her very long hair on to me! I told her to stop - which she did, very, very grudgingly!

Yabu - be careful because it makes you look unprofessional. Whatever your excuse is, all everyone in the office sees is someone too lazy to finish getting ready at home and who prefers to do it on company time. Even if you are coming in earlier, people won't really notice that. It makes you look a bit lazy. I'm not saying you are lazy, but that it may make you appear that way. And, unfortunately, that does count in the workplace. For that reason, I wouldn't do it.

If you have a private office where no one will see, a touch up is okay, but do the full face in the bathroom. If you're in a shared area, touching up lipgloss is fine, but otherwise, again, use the bathroom. If it takes more than a few minutes, be sure to arrive early enough to do it off the clock. And if your routine is so complicated that you must do it over the course of the morning, and it interferes with your work schedule, please consider whether or not you're going overboard. (You may not be, but it can't hurt to check yourself!)

Do not apply perfume at work. Even if people don't have allergies, it can be unpleasant for them to smell, and doing it every day will just make it a permanent fixture of your part of the office. If you must wear it to work, go as minimal as possible.

And hanging your sweaty kits all over at work is just gross. Ewwwwwww.

I used to start work at 8am but had to be at work before 730 to get a parking space (£10 a day charge in the only other car park) so I used to put my make up on in the toilets every day just to kill some time! Nobody ever objected

I work at an environmental charity, so it's practically compulsory to drape cycling gear everywhere I think perfume and deodorant would be a no-no, as it's effects spread too far. I would care if people we're putting make up on at their desk - I'd just think 'why not sue the toilets?'

No make-up sessions in the office - doit in the ladies.

Cyclist should not leave their stuff draped all over the radiators etc either. I worked in an office of keen squash players- they would play at lunchtime and dry their sweaty kit off over radiatiors in the office.

The place STANK!

Perfume? Awful. Nobody wants to smell whatever you like to spritz around.

The makeup...? Well, I don't apply makeup in public. Sometimes lip stick/gloss or quick touch of powder, but only if there's no other place I can use. Just go to the loo.

I don't mind sweat kits.

But anything with a strong scent (deo, cream whatever)? No way.

I don't mind the sweaty kits... but maybe that's because I myself am also guilty of this.
But I'm in a 2 person office-eoom and my colleague does the same.

Desk or public transport - I think it's vulgar.

Makeup, doing hair, nails, shaving: all personal activities that should be done in the ladies/gents. I find it embarrassing seeing people do these things on the train or at work. Same with full on nose blowing and poking of tissues in nose, a discreet wipe is fine, but anything more- go into the ladies.

Sweaty kit hanging around the work place is vile.

We have a staff changing room and I change out of my cycling gear, have a shower, spritz a bit of deodorant and perfume, apply some kohl and lipgloss and I'm good to go.

I don't judge people who paint their faces at their desks though, why is it such a problem?

I don't wear a lot of make-up for work because I like to look dramatically different on a night out.

PS: Poppy get a grip love.