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02/15/2006: "Eww, gross"

Song of the Day: Anastacia - Paid My Dues

In the last few months, I have noticed a phenomenon that totally grosses me out: people who apply their makeup on public transportation.

I'm not talking about a quick lipstick touch-up; I'm talking about the whole gig. Foundation. Blush. Eyeshadow. Eyeliner. Mascara.

And it is gross. Thousands of people shuffle through the trains and buses everyday, which means thousands of hands touching all the surfaces and leaving thousands of germs behind. Not a place I want to be using things that I'm touching against my face and eyes.

Not only are these people putting on makeup in the worst place I could imagine, but they are piling on layer after layer after layer of the stuff. The number of people I have witnessed using what must have been an entire tube of mascara on their eyelashes in one sitting leaves me asking the question, "Am I doing it wrong?"

The other day, I inconspicuously (hopefully) watched a woman apply brow gel and mascara on the bus ride to school. She must have used 25 to 30 strokes of each product on each eyebrow and set of eyelashes, no hyperbole. I wanted to march over and grab the makeup from her hands and yell, "Good God, woman, what the hell are you doing?"

Another time I witnessed a woman deposit what must have been an entire tube of lipgloss onto her lips. She would dip the wand into the tube, swipe it back and forth across her lips ten times, dip it back in, swipe again, dip, swipe, dip swipe...it took everything in me to not yell at her, "It stays on longer when you use less!"

I guess it goes without saying that the exorbitant amount of makeup caked on did not make any of these woman look very appealing. Top it off with all the germs they probably just rubbed all over their face, and...well...ew.

Replies: 7 Comments

I like to cut out the middle-man by skipping the makeup and just rubbing my face all over the seats.

Babs, Thursday, February 16th

Morgan is notorious for putting on her makeup in the car. I remember getting in a car with her one day, and she started to apply it and my only thought was, "Am I going to live? She's going to crash the car!"

But on a bus, EEEW. To someone who used to work in the industry, I would want to scream too!

Shannon, Thursday, February 16th

It's a wonder the women could even open their eyes with the 20lbs of mascara they just applied! And good for Babs taking less time to get the same diseases! Good girl!

kirka@bgnet.bgsu.edu">Amy, Thursday, February 16th

I usually do mine--and my lieutenant's--while driving the engine to a fire.

Brad, Friday, February 17th

Babs' evil plan to convince unsuspecting Brooke readers that he is a girl, has worked. ;D

j!!, Friday, February 17th

Babs always gets pegged for a girl. Damn. That's awesome. :D

Of course, it's funniest when it's a foreign guy looking for a girlfriend.

Brooke, Friday, February 17th

I <3 foreign guys. Thier bodies make my backyard so fertile!

Babs, Saturday, February 18th