To do my make up in Pret?

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I'm in Pret for my morning coffee. Didn't make the time to do my make up before I got the bus. Would I bu to do it here, discretely, in Pret? I was about to do so but then realised I've seen this classed as unreasonable on mm not before, and now I'm scared! Well not really, but if it's a massive faux paux I won't do it.

So as not to drip feed... All the benches outside in the high street are wet.

'A lot of halfwits seem to have that attitude, unfortunately. "I'll do what the hell I like, if YOU don't like it, don't look!!"'

Believe me, I am the first to start frothing about people who seem to treat the entire world like their own living room / bathroom and heaven knows there are plenty of them around! However, I really can't see what is remotely offensive about someone applying make up in public, so long as no sprays, nail varnish etc are being used.

ConstanceCraving, how's cutting your toenails and plucking your eyebrows comparable to putting on lipstick and mascara?

Love to know what you lot who think this is unhygienic are using on your faces. Dog shit?

You said that putting your makeup on harms nobody as would cutting your toenails. Doesn't mean that people want to see it.

I own a cafe. Applying a bit of lippy or whatever is fine. But the woman who came in and did a full face of mineral make up, complete with swirling and tapping of kabuki brushes, and plucking eyebrows and other hair from her face... that was just inconsiderate. Even though staff clean tables between customers, the dust is in the atmosphere and settling onto surfaces for ages, and we really don't want your hairs all over the shop. Or to have to clear up the bits of tissue and cotton wool left behind on the table, since that's basically clinical waste. Minging.

If you wouldn't like a complete stranger turning up and doing the same at your kitchen table, don't do it in a coffee shop.

Love to know what you lot who think this is unhygienic are using on your faces. Dog shit?
Think about it. Table strewn with make up brushes and sponges, and other paraphernalia, tissues, wipes (for wiping fingers, excess make up), powder flying around, and on the table, whilst being applied. Even with careful application you'll get bits of make up on the table. Just go to the bloody loo, where you have access to mirrors and washing facilities.

I've never seen this thankfully.

Love to know what you lot who think this is unhygienic are using on your faces. Dog shit?

My dogs' arses are cleaner than some of the brushes and sponges I've seen being used during those make up sessions in the wild, especially after the brushes inevitably fall down on the carriage floor.

ConstanceCraving, but cutting your toenails could be harmful. It means getting your bare feet out, the bottom of which are covered in goodness-knows-what, putting your foot/leg up that could trip/bump someone carrying hot drinks, your clippings could fly off and hit someone in the eye or drop into their food/drink, a young child could pick it up and eat it etc. How is that comparable to using lipstick?

thepumpk1neater, as I said previous, makeup stuff on tables should be the least of your concern when eating/drinking in cafes and similar. Take it from someone who's had years experience in the food industry.

People do it on trains without the consequences you're describing. As minging as it is.

I think most people are slightly better organised than having chaotic brushes, flying powder and masses of tissues everywhere taking up an entire table!

I'd draw the line at someone waxing their eyebrows over someone's overpriced sandwich tbf

ConstanceCraving, my apologies, didn't realise you had been on every train ever for you to realise these things have never had 'consequences'. I'm also sorry you can't see that there's a difference between removing bits of your body and applying a bit of makeup, especially in terms of basic hygiene.

Goodness Edmund chill out.

I get my eyebrows threaded in the middle of a department store, right next to a zone where people are constantly walking past. Can't see much of a difference TBH

Misogyny isn't about individual behaviour (e.g. make up) but rather about the ways in which men's behaviours in general (you can think of specific examples like spitting, swearing, man spreading, re-arranging their junk, going topless

Come off it, most people would regard most of those (with the possible exception of going topless in holiday resorts) as not being in general acceptable in public.

I love watching people do their makeup on the train.

And Edmund how do you know it was a "bit of makeup" and not the full works?

I get my eyebrows threaded in the middle of a department store, right next to a zone where people are constantly walking past. Can't see much of a difference TBH

Not in the middle of Pret then

thepumpk1neater, as I said previous, makeup stuff on tables should be the least of your concern when eating/drinking in cafes and similar. Take it from someone who's had years experience in the food industry.

We actually own a cafe/bar So I'd love to know what you mean.

ConstanceCraving, I'm perfectly 'chilled', thanks .

I don't know, and I have agreed with others that if it involved perfumes and other smelly stuff such as polish, then of course it's unreasonable. Also hair brushing, as no one likes bits of hair flying everywhere. Anything up to that, whatever 'full works' means, I genuinely don't see an issue with. People are making ridiculous comparisons with things that are evidently unhygienic to 'make their point'.

You really can't see any difference, Hellon? I wouldn't have admitted that, if I were you . It doesn't sound too bright.

I think putting make up on in a cafe or restaurant is grim. Do it in the loo, if you really can't manage to get up in time to do it at home.

I think it's rude and tacky.

I would do the full shabang with no doubt!

thepumpk1neater oh I'm sure as owners you are absolutely on top of things! However, working with others on minimum wage, in a busy, demanding environment with little breaks and customers demanding right now, well let's say I've seen standards slip. I've also worked places which had only one source of hot water, often staff wouldn't wash their hands properly, another where the manager would smoke in the food prep area, another where people didn't think anything about plating up with fingers, no demands to use gloves or hairnets, people being made to work full of germs, I could go on but I'd put people off eating out ever again I think. Perhaps I've just been very unlucky in the places I've worked.

On balance, I knew someone who worked in Greggs and they seems very, very tough on health and hygiene rules. So you might be eating a million calories but at least you know it was handled properly!

As someone who only wears make-up for weddings and very occasionally a night out so these days 3-4 times a year I'm always find people doing their make-up in public really odd although I do try hard not to judge.

I suppose I don't get why people wear it all the time. But if you do care about it enough to do so why not make the time at at home? And if you don't care enough to get up earlier why not just relax about it altogether and not bother. And I definitely don't get how anyone can be arsed lugging anything extra around with them!