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?!

I will say, if it took her an hour to do it, that probably explains why she didn’t get up 10 minutes earlier.

She’d still have had 50 minutes worth of make up to attend to on the train.

I commuted for years. Left home at 6:30 evry day but still did my make up at home. In fact id do base at home and top up at the office in the loo

i hate to think eveyone is gawping at me painting my eyebrows on

YABU. It doesn’t actually impact you, does it?

Getting up ten minutes earlier wouldn’t have helped much if it took her an hour 😆

Ahhh i miss London

I got a mouth full of setting spray, as I explained in my OP! And she kept jabbing me with her elbows!

That is inconsiderate, but it doesn’t mean everyone putting on make up is. Me putting on a bit of mascara and lipstick doesn’t hurt anyone for instance

Never done it myself and agree it’s annoying if people are inconsiderate (elbows out and spraying neighbours with setting spray absolutely not on). But I’ve voted YABU because I love watching people put their makeup on on the tube. It’s a rare sight but I truly enjoy it - seeing what the apply and how. And they’ve chosen to do it in public so I don’t feel bad for looking.

A quick 'one two' with the lipstick - fine. Anything else - no way.

It's like taking over the public space (and a crowded public space too) as your own personal boudoir. I really resent it. Keep your elbows and arms to yourself and read a book.

Yes - fgs, get up 10 mins earlier!

How does being elbowed or hit in the face with setting spray NOT affect her?

Are people actually reading the OP?

Of course it’s well known that rail passengers in other parts of the country are consideration personified.

I put my 5- min makeup on when I am on the 30 min park & ride. I use 2 seats for my journey, but the bus is virtually empty.

I do it because I have limited time; get up, sort out kids, drop DC off to school, drive to park & ride and go to work in city centre. The boring bus ride in consistent traffic jam is the bane of my life and I try to use it productively. Plus I cleanse, tone and moisturise before I leave and let it sink in. I also so my emails, WhatsApp and admin on the bus.

This always just made sense to me. I travelled by train to work, 45 mins each way, you're literally sitting wasting time you may as well do make up, eat breakfast, complete work etc.

It makes me feel sick. I don't care why they didn't do it before, I don't want someone's powder, eyebrow hairs and spray near me!

I think spending an hour on a full face of make up wouldn't be solved by getting up ten minutes earlier OP...

Your title is wrong though, you just said it took her an hour to do her make up, so she'd have had to get up an hour earlier. Then sit staring out the window on her at least an hour long commute. Why not make use of the time? I think it feeds into a myth that women should just wake up naturally with a full face of make up on. She's spoiling the illusion for everyone. I commute by train and putting make up on doesn't even register with me compared to the things people do on trains that bother me. I wish the people who really smell of BO would get up 10 mins earlier and take a shower and brush their teeth.

Not as bad as people eating fast food that makes the whole carriage stink of stale fat and rank meat. Or as bad as teen boys all spraying Lynx after sports training, instead of bothering to shower, triggering my asthma so I have to run into another carriage. Or drunken men braying football songs for hours on end. Or drunken men telling me their sob stories. Or drunken men trying to chat me up. Or drunken men trying to chat up my husband in front of me. Or drunken men trying to chat up my young sons in front of me and getting very hostile when I challenge them.
Public transport is... public.

Personally I am intrigued by women who apply make up, as long as there's no asthma-triggering spray. I watched a woman get on a train looking rough, haystack bed hair, bags under eyes, patchy skin. Twenty minutes later she got off with full make up and a chignon, looking like a glossy Parisian executive. It was performance art!

Being asthmatic, I’m not a fan of people who douse themselves in perfume on the train, regardless of how busy the carriage is.

I agree

If she was doing an hour's make up then it makes sense to do it on the train and if she was elbowing you then you should have said something

Course she did.

I’m always wondering why people don’t get up earlier. One woman arrives at work, late every day. Comes rushing in ‘oh sorry sorry’ only lives up the road.

Yes agree. I couldn't care less what other people do, but for me the faff of taking my makeup in my already too heavy work bag, and trying to apply it on a bumpy train journey, has always made me get up in time to never have to bother!

It’s personal care which should be done in relative privacy. These days people just don’t care and accuse others of being judgmental, which is apparently worse than conducting grooming sessions in public.

I'm 'timeblind' late to everything and if i was to wear make up this would 100% be me!!
those who are good with time can never understand ! Those who are not good with time have every intention of getting up earlier and leaving time but it just doesn't happen !

I used to do mine on the bus ,I could even do winged eyeliner when it stopped at the traffic lights 😂 setting spray wasn't around back then so didn't use that and wouldn't have used it as not fair on other passengers. I love watching people put on make up,it passes the time.