To be irrationally annoyed by women putting their make up on on trains?!

[stillstanding]

There is a woman who gets the same train as me in the mornings and every day she spends half an hour gazing into her mirror applying her make up and generally having a good look at herself. I find it incredibly annoying but I'm not sure quite why ... I just find grooming like this in public quite off-putting.

I mean, I know that it can be a huge rush in the morning to get out the door and I for one have certainly left the house with a naked face in my time but I then go to the loo at work and sort myself out. I wouldn't dream of doing it in front of a carriage load of onlookers and certainly not as daily ritual.

Anyone else feel like this or am I alone in my irrational pet hate??

I do not like it when people get on the last train with some dirty McD's as it smells and makes me want one

I totally understand OP. It is the mixture of weird fascination to see how much slap they put on and the odd gurning faces that people pull when putting it on that is oddly compelling to watch. It is also faintly repulsive too. It always makes me feel a bit uncomfortable when someone near me is doing it. I agree it should be a private activity really. I always put my make up on at home, although the odd reapplication of lippy is fine IMO.

I'm sure it it unreasonable to feel like this, but nevertheless I do feel like this and it seems that many others do too.

I was brought up to believe it was, erm, common. That belief has stayed with me and if I apply my lipstick on the train/plane I do it in one stroke. Somehow lipstick doesn't seem as bad as slapping on mascara and concealer and mascara.

The worse thing I have ever seen is a woman, opposite me, clipping her finger nails, with the clippings flying all over the table.

Quite right, anniemac - "irrationally" was meant to show that this is not something I take seriously or consider a major crime of commuterdom. It's just something that annoys me for reasons I can't quite put my finger on but which I've said and which other posters have added to. None of which is a good enough reason to make anyone stop doing it obviously but they do explain why I wouldn't do it.

As for what I do - it is a very quick 5 min affair which I mostly do at home (although usually over-blushed as DS likes doing that part quite vigorously!) but I sometimes get caught short in which case I do it in the loo at work.

I usually do my make up at home, however sometimes when I am busy at work I take I like to get in for 6, I have a reasonable commute so would have to leave the house at 5.15. On those days I take my bag with me and put my make up on at work.

At that time of day nobody else is around so I am not bothering anyone.

I know someone who applies make up whilst she drives to work, every red light she puts her face on. That's mad imo.

Don't even put mascara on in front of DP - I have to have my mouth open as wide as it can go (why?). He takes the piss so don't let him see anymore

I annoys me too, but actually what really grates on me is the rummaging sound that make-up bags make. All those hollow lipstick tubes and brushes knocking together, it makes me shudder. Like fingers down a blackboard.

I am always amazed that anyone can apply eyeliner and mascara and use eyelash curlers on a bumpy train without losing their eyesight.

I find this weird too- all that peering and preening.

Perhaps this is just as nature intended and an instinct we just have to live with.

Competition is hard!

Watching the making of a great end product must be so fucking annoying.

On the other hand, there are some faces that could be greatly improved by the "less is more" theory!

Erm, the 'afters' I have seen after the train make over and normally worse than the befores...

Anniemac, I can't understand how you can say that women using a loo (where there are mirrors etc practically for this purpose) is an "intrusion on everybody else" but that using a public train is different?

Am also a bit confused re the "particular breed of person" which you refer to ...?

anniemac personally I was a bit at the "common" remark in as much as I was trying to imagine a childhood so different to mine that verdicts were pronounced on such things - so not just an NZ thing (and I am 100% with you on the validity or otherwise of reasons to get up at 4:50am instead of 5am!)

at least she has clothes on

I love how the Public Slappers are saying basically "I know I'm being selfish/repulsive, but I just don't care, I want my sleep, so suck it up, fellow commuters".

YANBU - drives me bonkers as well.

It's never just a bit of make up though is it?

Moisturise
Foundation
Powder
Eye shadow
Eye liner
More Powder
Blusher
Bronzer
Flick hair
Flick hair
Flick hair
Check face
Check hair

Oh, you're still a moose. What a waste of time.

Can I just ask Ewe, is it really unprofessional not to wear make-up? Unless of course you're a clown.

And I'm definitely in the irrationally annoyed, yet fascinated camp

I do my make up on the train, bus and in the car. I would probably also pluck my eyebrows. What's so wrong about plucking eyebrows? I wouldn't clip my nails or squeeze spots though - that's sick!

'I love how the Public Slappers are saying basically "I know I'm being selfish/repulsive, but I just don't care, I want my sleep, so suck it up, fellow commuters".'

Yup. And that was what those who told me it was 'common' (nuns at school) meant. Common encompassed doing things that others would find objectionable and not really caring enough about their feelings to change your behaviour. Common also mean throwing litter on the street and eating on the street.

BTW, I didn't actually say I thought it was common, just that I'd been told it was so. I do sometimes apply lipstick.

Er, bits of yr pube-like hair coming out and going near someone else. YOu pulling a weird plucky face, other people being forced to watch something which is PRIVATE.

I bet the Public Slappers think when they fart on a train it's OK because they like their own smell.