Make up on the train

[failingmammalian]

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?

Love all the Edwardian admonishments of 'immodest', 'unacceptable', 'undignified', 'disorganised slattern'.

Straightener woman is a lawyer and doesn't eat cornflakes but yoghurt and redbull

Me too squoosh "unbecoming " has been mentioned too- quick, pass the smelling salts, my delicate sensibilities are under assault.

I do full makeup on the tube most days and have got down to a fine art. I've been known to apply liquid eyeliner standing up on the Victoria line at rush hour. Am pretty skilled with slap due to working on beauty counters for a couple of years in my youth!

I know it's trashy, but I don't care. I live in a city of some 13 million people. The chances that I'll ever have to impress someone who's previously seen me making up on the tube, AND that they recognise me, AND that they're one of theunreasonable people who disapprove of in-transit beautification, are vanishingly small.

Oh, and I don't use any powder-based products. All my make up is cream-based, and I apply it with my fingers, which I clean with sanitizing hand wipes before at end of the process. No brushes, no germs.

at the porn-reading commuter, by the way!

Love it holla!

I always have a level of respect for people who can put make up without being jolted on public transport!

Explain away holla,embelish your account of the minutiae of process,it's still minging

Why is it 'trashy' and 'unbecoming'? Honestly, I'm perplexed. Is it supposed to be a secret that we wear makeup?!

Minging? Is there some new definition of the word Minging I'm not aware of?

I don't understand why it's minging awkward if I happen to be staring but minging? Farting in a crowded carriage is minging.....

Fannying aboot applying slap is minging end of
And you know what you all know it too...hence the vigorous rebukes

I don't know scottish that's why I'm asking! To me minging means something unclean or disgusting I genuinely don't see how me putting my own make up on my own face is minging.

agree with scottishmummy it is minging (love that word)

Ha ha, no, I genuinely don't see it as something I give two fucks about, and I don't see it as minging. I don't do it because I don't have the technical skill because I drive to work......

I dont mind it but I was puzzled today by the lady who seemed to be trying to get rid of invisible issues. I felt quite sorry for her.

It's gross,fannying about products,brushes,rubbing,face pulling,eye tugging
Minging,I'm surprised you can't see it

I don't really do it very often as now I am old I get up early enough to do it before I leave. But I wouldn't have a problem doing it if necessary. This is one of those things people have a dislike of but don't actually explain what's wrong with it.

I don't think it's minging, I find it hypnotising.

Minging was the woman beside me on the bus who was scratching her head so much a shower of dessicated skin flakes was being scattered near me. I asked her to stop.

Read the thread,plenty explanation
The odour,the look if it,spillage,seepage risk,gurning face pulling to apply
It's a task you should be completing at home,not in public

I guess the beauty/make-up counters in the middle of a packed Debenhams/John Lewis are minging too then? Have you been near the Bobbi Brown/MAC counter on a Saturday? Mental

Yes and I asked someone to stop applying her slap and waving kabuki brush about

Exactly squoosh. And cutting fingernails is minging as bits of nails are falling off. But putting make up is not intimate in any way, only thing I can see that's annoying is the comments about powder getting on other people.

No,moo one finds oneself at mac erc by choice.on crowded transport choice restricted
Stupid analogy

'Don't wave your kabuki at me madam!'