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 would put lipstain on, mascara, sometimes eyeliner. None of it involves touching anything but the product packaging itself and it would all remain in the pocket of my coat or purse. There’s also these things called pocket hand sanitizer that I carry.

Will also add, keep my arms to my sides like a normal person and ensuring I’m not infringing on others space.

It was usually me alone on the train when I get on for 10 minutes.

What a fuss about nothing.

I think it can be a great way to save time in the mornings!, sometimes i do it on the drive into work, or on the drive to take the kids to school💅

i couldnt agree more babes, some people love to cause drama over nothing

I don’t wear make-up but I can’t see the problem with this as long as you aren’t jabbing the person next to you or spraying them with something. I know I’d value 10 extra mins in bed . Make up putter on’ers are less annoying than people not using headphones when they should.

It's about the least annoying thing someone can do on public transport. If you're a regular London commuter I'm surprised you've got the headspace to be wound up by make up. I'd recommend getting in your own bubble and zoning out as soon as you get to the station - your blood pressure will thank you. You don't get to control what everyone else does, just your reaction to it. It's taken me decades of commuting to figure this out sadly....

I got repeatedly elbow bumped by a woman putting on her make up on the tube.

she took a full 30 minutes and it was the smelliest make up too. 🤢

so anti social. 😡

Elbowing someone repeatedly and spraying them with their make-up is the 'least annoying' thing someone can do on public transport?

Girls are stinky.

🙄

I know it's not rational, but I regard doing make-up as similar to picking one's nose or cutting one's toe-nails... not to be done in public. I also regard it as a bit of a personal slight, in other words "you want to present to the world in your made-up, more glamourous way, but you don't respect me (and the other people on the train) enough to do it before you see us. We're the irrelevant people for whom you don't make an effort. Thanks."

Not saying its rational but that is how it makes me feel.

Not a big issue.

I remember seeing a woman doing a full face from start to finish on a commuter train a few years ago, I did find it a little quirky, exactly the same as when I sometimes used to see a guy razor his face walking back from school drop-off (with a battery powered shaver). In both scenarios it felt a bit much. I absolutely wouldn't bat an eye at a quick powder, dash of blusher or lipstick applied/reapplied - I'm sure I remember reading once that the late Queen would use a powder compact in public 😄

In your imagination?
Because people in Paris are commuting, rushing their very young kids to school, biting into burgers, drinking coffee on the go and shock horror applying makeup.

But I do care more about presenting to people I know in real life than you, total random on the train who’s opinion I don’t care about.
You think me not caring what you think of me is a personal slight? God forbid some of us don’t give strangers that much control over our lives!

I'm often a hot, sweaty mess dealing with toddlers and dogs going three different places in the morning and physically can't apply my make up in the house. I regularly apply it on the go and while I tend to drive, I'd happily apply it on the train if I caught one and not give two shits what you thought about it. Hth.

“Decorating an egg” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Can you explain why it's unclassy? Perhaps with reference to other unclassy activities. Also, can you say why that's important?

I'm on the fence here - I don't travel regularly enough for things to become irritating, but if I do see someone apply make-up it kind of fascinates me. An hour?!!! Just how? I'm done in 5 mins

You sound miserable x

Normally I'd think YABU but not if she got the spray in your face! Or was talking up a lot of extra room from it.

Many moons ago I used to have a stupid long commute. I'd roll out of bed hardly dress, brush teeth, make a coffee and leave. My 1st train was usually very quiet and I would do my make up. Which since I can remember has been BB cream, a light eye shadow and a small bit of mascara.

If there were no single seats available and you had to sit beside someone, would you still apply the make up? If not, not a problem. If you would, I suppose that runs the risk that you would accidentally elbow or spray someone.

If the seating arrangements allowed applying my lipstick without infringing on antibody’s space? Sure.

Putting on lipstick and mascara takes about as much arm movement as raising and lowering a coffee cup, which most people seem to easily manage without jostling the person next to them.
and yet nobody seems to be outraged by the “risk” of them jostling somebody…

How is me applying some lipstick and mascara any different?

(I wouldn’t use a spray btw. That is just inconsiderate, I absolutely agree.)

I do not like people spraying stuff around on public transport. It has triggered asthma before.

> You’re taking up two seats
Not if I needed a seat they wouldn't
I'd insist they move their crap, and any jabbing with elbows would meet with a sharp nudge in return just as they were applying mascara

I love watching the transformation. I have try hard to not look like I am staring (which I am) - although I have never come across someone spraying stuff, I would draw the line there.

I like it- I enjoy seeing how other people do their makeup.

Sooner a woman taking up space putting on mascara than being squashed between two manspreading guys in suits.