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?!

Some people just have no standards. I've seen a woman cutting her toe nails with a nail clipper on the train.

Can you imagine our grandparents every having contemplated this?

Brazen train make-upper here - been doing it for years. My moisturiser has had time to settle, if I've rushed I can wait until I feel a bit cooler and THE LIGHT IS BETTER ON THE TRAIN!!

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

But I think that was my original point (either to you or someone else). The person elbowing and spraying the OP would probably have sworn up and down that she wasn’t infringing on anyone’s space or doing what the OP said she had done.

People are often a poor judge of when their behaviour is infringing on others. You claim that putting on make up etc takes as much arm movement as raising and lowering a coffee cup. Well, it clearly didn’t today - hence the inspiration for OP’s post. That’s why I think it’s probably better to lay off applying make up (and many other activities besides!) when sitting directly next to someone else.

That is literally how it is though. You are the irrelevant people for whom I don't make an effort. What kind of crippling self importance would you need to have to think strangers should dress up for you? That's honestly fucking creepy.

It shows how long it is since I took the train anywhere, I had no Idea women were comfortable about doing this.
Circa late 80's, I remember my friend having a go at me at a European outside café bar for applying a touch of lippy with a compact mirror before we left the table. She was quite right and it obviously stuck with me all these years 😂

I posted something similar @Trainarmrestfairyunder a different username many years ago. I had my arse handed to me on a plate for being judgey and essentially, a misogynist

Fast forward at least 10 years and I still think putting on a full face on public transport is antisocial.

I actually enjoy seeing what products people are using, sometimes it gives me ideas and I make note 😂 I mean there’s more annoying things ppl can be doing on the train. My top bugbear is eating a smelly meal and chewing it with mouth open like a cow.

I will add, I don’t do it myself, I lack the dexterity

I have a very high energy 4 year old DC and an 80 minute commute. Doing makeup on the train is a sensible use of my time that I'd otherwise just spend doomscrolling on here (I barely get chance to make my hair presentable never mind anything else). However I don't spray anything, I agree that that's rude.

It’s more the jabbing of elbows and the spray getting on me, now that would annoy me, but if it’s just putting on make up and it’s not in my personal space, I couldn’t give 2 hoots. I’ve done it before.

I’ve been on the tube a few times where people have been clipping their finger nails and the nails are flying EVERYWHERE. No man bashing, but it was always men! Also seen few people eating greasy food after a night out and wiping their hands on the seats🤮

Honestly, there are some real rotters about.

Well, it isn’t all that straightforward for some of us to ‘just’ get up ten minutes earlier, but I agree they shouldn’t be inconveniencing other passengers. Refreshing lippie is one thing, but a full-on makeup job not so much. They should probably just leave the makeup off if they’ve not had time.

Took an hour😲

I love watching people apply their make-up.

I do this, even though I know it gets disapproval.

I get up at 5.50am on a work day and have a long train ride. I'm a very compact operator. No elbows, spritzing or anything else.

As a now middle-aged women, I'm so over this type of judgy bullshit. Lots of reasons why people can be annoying or inconsiderate in general life. No point listing them all here. But women doing makeup is an easy target.

It's lazy, and a bit pathetic to do your grooming in the train, but some people lack complete self-awareness.

I do love their mindset: could not possibly live without make-up, as must be spending 10mn to paint their face on public transport, but is ok for the world to see the process 😂
It usually end up with "all that for THAT? 😂😂"
Make-up is not a magical filter, in real life, it doesn't hide or transform as much as they think it does.

Reminds me of these tv shows were people are too "embarrassed" to do something in real life (medical, or clutter or what-have-you) but are happy to go on national tv to discuss it in details. Brilliant.

I thought you were BU till you said they used a spray. That's not ok. That can be done later in the open if really needed.
It is never ok to spray other people without either informed consent or as self defence reasonable force.
I'm not sure having wonky eyebrows is worse than any of the other things, that's not your problem.

What a load of rubbish.

How was she "taking up two seats" if you were sat next to her? How could you tell her eyebrows were "wonky"? Seriously you'd have to look pretty closely (and turn your head completely to face her) to notice that? You said in your other post it took her 15 minutes to do her mascara? Bullshit.
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As for people saying why don't you do it in the toilets at work - well because I assume when you get to work you arrive either just before or at the time you start and can't exactly nip off to the loo for an hour to put your makeup on! You're not doing anything else on the train so that's why people do it.

There was a thread on here recently about someone moaning that she couldn't freely poo in her work toilets because there were people in there doing their makeup, and a lot of the comments were berating them for not just doing it on the train (their make up, not their poo!)

You were resourceful enough to find time for a run. But you don’t think getting yourself presentable for work is a priority?

I once worked with a younger teacher who lived in roughly the same direction as me and I'd often see him at the traffic lights having a shave and once he had his shaver in one hand and a slice of toast in the other hand!

Make-up is not a magical filter, in real life, it doesn't hide or transform as much as they think it does.

Really? I watched a woman do her face on the train once and it completely transformed her. She was incredibly skilled, I subsequently copied a couple of her techniques.

It's a good use of time. Why not?

What makes you think that I think strangers should dress up for me?

Objecting to spray, being elbowed and things with smells- NBU.

Wonky eyebrows or other aspects of make up application that do not affect you-BU

I quite like it too.

Its one of those things, like eating in public while walking that I had no idea was seen negatively.

The words you said.