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Make up on the train

467 replies

failingmammalian · 07/03/2014 06:16

Is it acceptable to do your make up on the train .. Powder blush mascara and lip balm. Nothing gross like eyebrow plucking
I do get some funny looks. Isn't it normal/acceptable?
What's a girl to do?

OP posts:
DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 08/03/2014 22:49

You assume wrongly Japanese Margaret. How on earth is putting on make up the same as going to the loo in front of someone?

scottishmummy · 08/03/2014 22:54

No I don't assume time starved poor burd.i think disorganised minger

NuggetofPurestGreen · 08/03/2014 22:56

I'm not disorganised in the slightest sm. I just like to use my time efficiently.

scottishmummy · 08/03/2014 23:00

If one was efficient,there would be no fannying about in public with make up
Repeated on thread is the whine that folk don't have time,diddums

CheesyBadger · 08/03/2014 23:03

I used to see a lady do this every morning and we called her clown lady! She was extreme though, full works with blue eyeshadow, red lippy, the lot. She looked daft doing it on there

NuggetofPurestGreen · 08/03/2014 23:10

I am efficient. I just use the time on the train to accomplish something that does not need to be done at home when it's appropriate.

scottishmummy · 08/03/2014 23:12

If you were efficient you'd not be applying slap in they train.you're inefficient

NuggetofPurestGreen · 08/03/2014 23:14

No sm you're not getting it. I CHOOSE to apply make up on the bus/train/wherever because I want to. Not because I didn't have time to do it at home. Often it's because I want the make up to be freshly applied on my arrival somewhere.

scottishmummy · 08/03/2014 23:32

Chose to be minging?how v empowering for you

NuggetofPurestGreen · 08/03/2014 23:39

No. Because it's not minging.

You repeating the same thing ad nauseum doesn't make it true.

Also you should learn how to type.

scottishmummy · 08/03/2014 23:51

Is that it?you'll have a go a post composition in absence of coherent point
it is minging,and I'm not only poster saying so,do seek out the others.address their syntax
And do keep up its a polarised thread,folk either think it's minging or it isn't

NigellasDealer · 08/03/2014 23:55

nugget it is minging honestly

NuggetofPurestGreen · 09/03/2014 00:00

I've made many coherent points, you've just repeated the same thing over and over in (badly phrased) posts.

Nigella it's not minging according to any definition of the word minging I've ever understood and people's explanations referencing things like 'gurning' does not match up with how I understand minging. Maybe minging just means something different when I live.

The word minging has now lost all meaning to me anyway.

NigellasDealer · 09/03/2014 00:04

haha about 'minging' I only learnt it off my much younger siblings.
honestly though it is kind of gross IMO

NuggetofPurestGreen · 09/03/2014 00:06

Yes nigella but my point is people keep saying that but not saying what is gross about it. Other than things that aren't gross like gurning. Gross to me means dirty or unhygienic as does minging. Not just 'I don't like seeing someone do it because I have weird issues about people touching their eyes' which is how it's coming across on the thread.

scottishmummy · 09/03/2014 00:11

And you nugget are coming across whiny and listen and agree with me-me
We disagree vehemently.thats how it goes online.actually that's the fun
The big girl response isn't to whine,ohh you said dat already!oh your dreadful posts

NigellasDealer · 09/03/2014 00:15

make up is like an artifice, a perfect mask presented to the world.
that artifice, that deal with the public as it were, is broken if you put it on in public.
There are faces that women make into the mirror that are kind of yukky (is that word ok?) in the make up process.
in addition people who do this are behaving as though there is nobody else around them, or that those people are really not important.
it is only my opinion.

NuggetofPurestGreen · 09/03/2014 00:16

I don't care one jot if anyone agrees with me actually, I started off interested as to why people thought it was gross but none of of the explanations made any sense to me. Oh well.

And you as someone pointed out earlier do seem unhinged. 'Big girl response'. Jesus.

scottishmummy · 09/03/2014 00:17

Yep,it's the face pulling,the contortions to apply,it's yuck.but they don't care

scottishmummy · 09/03/2014 00:18

Do you actually have a point other than telling me how it is?youre bit too het up

NuggetofPurestGreen · 09/03/2014 00:21

Okay you think the faces are yukky Nigella. This isn't something I've ever noticed.

Don't agree with you about the artifice, it's not as if people don't know I have make up on even if they don't see me putting it on. And again doesn't come into my definition of gross. And I don't really care what people on the train think of me, you're right there, but don't see what's gross about this either.

Anyway bowing out now this thread has gone circular. Still none the wiser but I'll live I suppose.

NigellasDealer · 09/03/2014 00:23

crumbs nugget, i just made three good points, and you just dismissed them; if they don't 'make any sense to you' why are you bothering to continue the discussion, such as it is.
this disregard for other people is probably why you sit on the train slapping on your slap, you old slapperatti you.

NigellasDealer · 09/03/2014 00:24

oops sorry i see you did respond Grin sorry!
think on next time you whip out your mascara on the tube!

Robfordscrack · 09/03/2014 00:25

FFS DON'T put your foundation on in front of other people

squoosh · 09/03/2014 00:27

DO.

So I can keep staring like a creepy weirdo. I love when someone gets their makeup bag out.