Make up on the train: get up ten mins earlier

[Trainarmrestfairy]

Just get up ten minutes earlier!! It’s not hard.

You’re taking up two seats. Your elbows are jabbing the person next to you. Your setting spray just hit me in the bloody face. And, even worse, you’ve painted your eyebrows on wonky because you’re on a moving bloody train!!!!

Why do people not get up earlier?!

if you do things in public, you are performing.
They're not "confident", they just lack basic manners.

They're not busy, they're disorganised. We are ALL busy. We just manage our time differently. I am busy with work/ kids/ sport/ uni and I still manage to waste time on here 😂

There are some strange people on this thread.

It's one thing to be sprayed by setting spray (yabu there) but seriously some judgemental busy bodies on here.

Who gives an eff if someone is putting makeup on, on the train?
And to the person who says it's not classy, do you need a surgical procedure to remove the giant stick from your arse?

Why is everyone soooo concerned with what other people are doing?

It's not like they are getting their trotters out and clipping toe nails in public. 🤢 Now that I'd understand.

But for the love of anything, find something to do in your lives without judging every little damn thing people do.

if you do things in public, you are performing.

What utter bollocks.

Is doing the weekly shop in Tesco performing, then? Because that’s done in public… 🤔

Totally disagree that putting makeup on in public is performing unless it’s done with a ‘look at me’ air. People don’t get to dictate to strangers what they may or may not do in front of others (unless it impacts said others, as per OP’s example.)

That’s a you problem. By the same logic someone knitting is a nuisance.

You don’t seem to get that people choosing not to use their time at home putting on makeup is not disorganised because YOU claim it is.

I agree. And yes knitting would be similarly irritating.

I once sat next to a knitter on the train. She was fat so it was a snug situation. I was slightly demented by being jogged by her elbow for 40 minutes, but train was rammed and I had no escape.

I used to do this when I was a teenager. I'd buy a child's ticket at the station, looking around my age (16/17), put my makeup on on the train, then walk into the pub and order a rum and coke!

You probably couldn't get away with it now but I convinced myself that it was the makeup on the train that was key. I didn't take up anymore than my own seat and I wasn't leaving the house until around 6/7pm, so I quite often had a whole carriage to myself.

I wouldn't do it now though. It somehow feels like quite a childish /rebellious teenager thing to do. I certainly wouldn't do it on a packed train in rush hour, even as a dizzy and disorganised 17yo

It’s a very fixed logic. Black and white thinking.
I shared an example above. Of when some woman basically shouted at me on a bus for rushing some make up on. That morning I hadn’t been ‘disorganised’ I’d been very organised but my kids had different ideas and when one got upset because of something to do with school just as we were leaving, I took five to calm her down before we left. So the five mins I would have been doing my make up I was comforting my daughter instead so she could go to school feeling safe and loved. That okay by you? Or should I have told her her emotions didn’t fit with my schedule?

Imagine thinking you could dictate other people to this degree. Mental.

I've never said anything about dictating. I am irritated by it. Doesn't mean I think I should be able to ban it. I will just remain irritated.

Not offended, not furious, not thinking they are behaving unacceptably. Just irritated, as I said.

@ruethewhirl anything done in public is open to evaluation by others. If I see someone doing something unusual in Tesco, then I'm going to be looking and evaluating that. If I saw you applying your make up whilst you were doing your shopping, I would definitely be having a few thoughts about it. If you are just doing the bog standard putting shit in your trolley, I probably wouldn't be paying a vast amount of attention. If you are sitting on the train looking at your phone / book / paper then I'm not giving you much thought either.

People don't get to dictate to strangers what they may or may not do but they can certainly think about it, and disagree with it in their own heads, if they want to.

Of course they can. But I do think it's a measure of how judgemental, or otherwise, a person is. I think society could do with being a bit more 'live and let live' where the unimportant stuff is concerned.

Agree that you can think what you want of people. And get as irritated or annoyed about it in your own head about it as you wish. And moan about it to like-minded souls if that’s your bag.

Also believe that a lot of what you’re assuming about said people (words used on here so far in relation to the crime of make up on public transport have been: disorganised, lazy, performative, weird, disgusting) is definitely a reflection of your own inner workings than actual reality. When in fact you have NO idea why that particular person is putting make up on on a train instead of at home on that particular day.

Do I do it? No. Do I care if someone else does it? No.

It doesn’t make a noise or smells or disrupt me on my journey so I simply don’t care. I’ve been disturbed on trains far more by loud phone calls, people not using earphones, spilt drinks or food, and spreading elbows from people working on the train where there is insufficient space.

In that context I can’t get worked up over someone applying mascara on the train. If granted a wish to remove an annoyance from trains then make up wouldn’t register.

HARD AGREE!

Did you wake up on the wrong side of bed? Cheer up!

Makeup? You're complaining about makeup on public transport? 😂

Come to NY. 😂🐀

If I saw someone putting shit in their Tesco trolley I’d definitely pay attention. 😂

I literally could not give a flying fk what anyone thinks of me putting make up on anywhere

Yet here you are, ranting away.

A lot of internalised misogyny going on here

Nonsense. I wouldn't be happy with a bloke applying his make up whilst on the train.

Ha! Hello! Yes here I am because I was addressing a point made in a thread that interested me. That okay with you hun?

Now THAT would get the Mumsnet masses frothing.

Wouldn't you? I'd think, good for him.