To do my make up on the train?

[northchesterforest]

Does it bother you when you see people doing this? If so, why?

Doesn’t bother me- I used to do mine on the bus when I was young, had to wait for a red light to do the mascara!

What is intimate about putting on a bit of lippy?

Or is it the amount of make-up?

Genuinely difficult to tell if this is taking the piss or not!!

1950s is a woman having to look her best and putting a perfect face of make up on!?

Same but on an hour journey. She was absolutely stunning and, in my opinion, looked better without the amount of makeup she put on.

It irritates me if they are sitting next to me. The elbows constantly moving and the sound of all constant rummaging in the bag. I usually listen to a book on the train and I can hear the compacts knocking against each other over the audio.

Doesn’t bother me at all. I know some people are weird about it (my mother is one of them) but I’ve never remotely understood why.

I do object to people spraying perfume in an enclosed space like a train, but makeup has no effect on me so I don’t care.

Would never do it myself but like others I find it fascinating, particularly if it's being done by someone who really has a whole ritual and knows their way around a makeup bag (I am a mascara and tinted foundation person myself and missed the whole makeup skillset completely.)
I remember seeing a woman curling her eyelashes on a tube which I thought was very daring. And another cutting her toenails on a London bus which was just gross.

And still you manage to type as well. You deserve a medal for multi-tasking.

But OP asked, so are only those who don’t care allowed to answer? How odd, in a chat forum.

i hate people with long hair brushing it on the train, their hairs come off onto the neighbouring passenger and the seats - yuk

The thing that puts me off is while it's not 'unhygienic' per se, if you use any powders at all you are creating dust and therefore dirt that will just end up ingrained in the seats etc. So it's a slightly selfish action really, to me.
But I do also find it fascinating - I find it hard to spend more than 5 minutes on make up myself even for a big occasion, and have no idea how people keep a steady hand on the train! How do people do it?

Well they clearly don’t understand what ablutions actually means.

I hate it but have no logical reason why. I commute in the tube so we are all crammed in elbow to elbow and people do it a lot. I was once fascinated though when one woman asked another who was sitting doing her makeup if she could take a photo of her for an album cover, and the makeup applied said yes! They got chatting and it was all very cosy. That doesn’t happen on the tube!

I find it mildly irritating.

Because I despise laziness. I get up at 0430 to 0500 for work in a stressful job every day (and have kids) and get fully ready before I leave the house. Not getting up early enough to do your makeup is laziness.

I am completely aware this is a ‘me’ thing. Nobody needs to be bothered at my mild inner irritation and scorn. I won’t show it.

MN is really odd about applying makeup in public. Did you not see the thread a few weeks ago where posters were defending the OPs work colleague who was mocking them at work for reapplying theirs 🙄 no one could justify why it was “not classy” to do it and were giving the most ridiculous excuses and responses (but fully thought they were justified by the tone of their responses…)

I don't wear make up so I won't be offending anyone, but I couldn't care less about someone else doing it.

Absolutely fine. I never did it as part of a short commute into the city pre-children though I had no objection to others doing. Now I have a more occasional, much longer commute and I will always do it on route. It's a quick routine though, 5 to 10 mins max, and I save putting on perfume for the toilets so its not in peoples faces.

Doesn't bother me at all provided they aren't spraying stuff, and aren't making a mess.

But you’re on a train doing nothing else? If anything it’s the “work smarter not harder” concept. Why wake up early when you have time to spare on the train? Just because you didn’t do that doesn’t make other people lazy, if anything it shows you as someone with bad time management.

It doesn't bother me unless there is spraying involved or its smelly.

Sounds like you could do with a lie in occasionally. Have you thought about doing your mascara on the train?

I’m bemused but not offended.

What offends me is the drunken shrieking groups of middle aged women (I know, I’m in danger if being sexist and ageist here but I’ve examined my biases and stand by it). I live in the North and have yet to take a train without sitting near a group of ladies in their 40s, 50s or 60s, all dressed up, with a flask of voddie or a bottle of rose, shrieking and screaming with laughter. I don’t get it. I’m mid 40s myself and like a drink and a night out with female friends but have never felt the urge to scream drunkenly on a train at 10am.

Course it’s lazy. It’s a cultural norm to get ready at home in private. Why not get dressed out of your pjs on the train too? Brush your teeth into a cup? Getting ready on a train isn’t good ‘time management’ 😂

I've just whacked on some mascara, darkened my brows and dabbed some mascara on my face whilst sat on the train. Used brushes and not fingers so won't be getting finger marks on anyone and there is nobody sat at my table of four but me. I don't see the issue unless spraying things, spilling things or poking people with elbows whilst doing it.

Generally I don’t unless you are including reapplying lippy in the last 5 minutes of a long train journey. But I can remember a few occasions when something had over run at home, and it was either finish my make up on the train, or miss it.
But not sprays or offensively aromatic products etc. Or right in someone’s personal space.
There are more annoying activities, loud music leaking from headphones, pungent takeaways eaten on crowded trains. Perhaps there are some people offended by cosmetic application, that do another activities that are equally offensive to others.