It was a glam slam on the gate.
A girl flying out of Shanghai was forced to clean off her heavy makeup at airport immigration since the facial scanner couldn’t recognize her.
The viral video, shared by @wchinapost and originally posted on Chinese social media, shows the mortified traveler cleansing her face with wipes while an individual behind the camera — believed to be an airport employee — scolds her.
“Wipe the whole lot off until you seem like your passport photo,” the alleged worker demands. “Why would you do your makeup like that? You might be asking for trouble.”
The now-infamous clip, which has racked up 1000’s of views, subsequently shows the flier scrubbing off “bridal-level” layers of cosmetics.
While it’s unclear if she eventually made it through security, the scanner actually didn’t approve of the contouring. Viewers were quick to pile on the snark.
“That is cosplay. Not only regular makeup,” one viewer observed within the comments.
“It’s not like she was capable of walk around with a filter on in real life, right?” one other quipped.
Others were more sympathetic.
“She was already wiping her makeup off and embarrassed enough. There was no need so that you can keep happening like some naggy boomer,” one defender declared.
“That is so humiliating,” one other noted, while a 3rd chimed in, “Poor girl mustn’t be laughed at. The guard hurt her feelings. Not nice and never funny.”
Someone even called out the person filming for “bullying” the makeup-wrecked woman.
But she’s not the just one whose passport pic didn’t pass muster at an airport security gate.
Model and influencer Janaína Prazeres, dubbed the “perfect woman” by Playboy Norway, was recently detained for 40 minutes by immigration officers after they failed to acknowledge her surgically enhanced face.
The Brazilian beauty, who’s dropped nearly $1 million on 20 cosmetic procedures — including a body lift, nose jobs and a full facial “harmonization” — admitted, “I at all times knew this might occur in some unspecified time in the future because my appearance has modified so much through the years.”
The snafu was so stressful, she rushed to update her passport photo post-trip: “I didn’t wish to undergo that sort of embarrassment again.”
“Perfection has its price,” she added.
“Regardless of how thick the makeup is, the face shouldn’t be unrecognizable, right?” asked one commenter. “Isn’t it time to upgrade the equipment?”
Until then, flyers might wish to tone it down — or keep the wipes handy. Just in case your glam gets flagged by the glam police.
