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?!

True. Her wonky eyebrows did not have any impact on me (although the application of it certainly did).

But it was wonky enough that she would have been better placed doing it at home…

I hate this too and a couple of years ago ended up with foundation on my top when the woman next to me spilt some on me. Ruined the top as the stain wouldn’t come out. The train table was covered in foundation and powders

When you took it as a “personal slight” and a sign that a stranger didn’t respect you enough to appear more glamorously??

Ha. I was indeed resourceful enough to go for a run, correct! It was perfectly fine for me to decide to pop some make up on, on the bus. I imagine you’re the kind of person who’d plonk your judgy self down next to me, tut, then adopt the cats bum face when I called you out on your rude comments to me? Some people need to get a life. Or go for a run! Would highly recommend a dawn run. Keeps one wonderfully calm and mentally balanced 👍

100% this

Jesus Fecking Christ.

I’m not sure you realise how much this post says about you and the way you judge other women?

'Not rational' is quite the miracle of understatement.

It wouldn't bother me one bit.
I really dont care if people put makeup on when on a train or what they wear or where they are going.
I was colouring in a book today on the train would i be judged.
Yes it was a kids colouring book.

I love watching people do this. I find it fascinating seeing the different products people use. I've worn make up pretty much every day for over 40 years and I still think I might not be doing it right. So I love the confidence of those who do it in public.

I don’t but it’s never really bothered me. If you’re doing it on a train right in my line of view, however, I feel I have every right to watch avidly - and maybe pick up some tips!

The premise of Mumsnet is that we discuss shit that has nowt to do with us.

I don't judge "women". I am one.

I am commenting on the ones who do their make-up in a public place. It's at most one in a full carriage, it's not a "women" issue, it's some very specific individuals. Most of us do it at home, or somewhere else (or not at all).

Are you including yourself in that group, is that what it is?

So the way you judge ‘some’ other women then? It’s great just cracking on not letting other women’s choices bother you. Fair enough if like the OP you’re getting disturbed then by all means say something to them directly. But to sit tut tutting at ‘those’ women and extrapolating why they might be doing it says more about your own internal issues than anything.

But she was getting herself presentable for work. Why should she have had to get up even earlier to do it at home just to appease the social sensibilities of strangers on the bus?

If you ask me, it’s weirder to jam yourself up next to a stranger on a bus when other seats are available, than it is to do your makeup on said bus.

It was very weird as there were lots of seats available.
Id had a bad morning too. She nearly made me cry with her unnecessary nastiness but after being totally taken aback I took a deep breath and filled her in on what time I’d got up and what I’d managed to do in the 3 hours between then and encountering her on the bus as I’m a fkn people pleaser so i obviously felt I should explain myself. In hindsight she was probably just a bit jealous that I could make myself look office ready ‘presentable’ and ready to kick arse in a stressful job on a moving bus jammed next to a complete stranger who was taking up half of my seat too, (having just completed 10 k and wrested two kids and ran for said bus) Whereas no amount of make up (applied within or out of the home) could mask her inner judgey nasty core, and cats bum face 😂

😂😂😂😂👍🏻

Yes, I agree nail polish is too much! Too smelly.

i don't care about make up, no more annoying than someone next to you flicking around on their phone!

Skipped to the last page and the comments are utterly fucking outrageous lol.

You would think she was giving a blowy under the table while punching a kitten with the reactions on here.

I can't believe the capacity for anger some people have around non issues and things that do not have any impact on them whatsoever😂

Yep. My sister was in a train in Paris & watched a woman shave her chin hair with a razor blade. Fascinating!

Laugh emoji has gone but this has totally made me lol

If you had guests round for dinner it would be weird if you sat beside them on the sofa and started doing your makeup. I don’t know why but it would feel so disrespectful. I know it’s not quite analogous, but that is how I feel when people do their makeup on the train. It feels as though they are using the space as their personal dressing room regardless of everyone else.

Quelle horreur! 😱

chill, it's weird and unpleasant to do this in public and you know it.

I am not extrapolating: they have decided they MUST be wearing make-up, or they wouldn't be doing it, they are too lazy to do it in the privacy of their own home, but it's ironic that they don't want people to see them without make-up for the rest of the day.. while a carriage full of people is fine. 😂

I am not tutting, I roll my eyes, (already covered in make-up because I happen to like make-up), or we make fun at "those" women who make such a public show because sometimes it's so funny other commuters can't help laughing.

I became an absolute pro in doing eyeliner on a train 🤣🤣 but I never sprayed anything