It was a glam slam at the gate.
A woman flying out of Shanghai was forced to scrub off her heavy makeup at airport immigration because the facial scanner couldn’t recognize her.
The viral video, shared by @wchinapost and originally posted on Chinese social media, shows the mortified traveler cleaning her face with wipes while a person behind the camera — believed to be an airport worker — scolds her.
“Wipe everything off until you look like your passport photo,” the alleged employee demands. “Why would you do your makeup like that? You are asking for trouble.”
The now-infamous clip, which has racked up thousands 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 certainly didn’t approve of the contouring. Viewers were quick to pile on the snark.
“This is cosplay. Not just regular makeup,” one viewer observed in the comments.
“It’s not like she was able to walk around with a filter on in real life, right?” another quipped.
Others were more sympathetic.
“She was already wiping her makeup off and embarrassed enough. There was no need for you to keep going on like some naggy boomer,” one defender declared.
“This is so humiliating,” another noted, while a third chimed in, “Poor girl should not be laughed at. The guard hurt her feelings. Not nice and not funny.”
Someone even called out the person filming for “bullying” the makeup-wrecked woman.
But she’s not the only 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 recognize 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 always knew this could happen at some point because my appearance has changed a lot over the years.”
The snafu was so stressful, she rushed to update her passport photo post-trip: “I didn’t want to go through that kind of embarrassment again.”
“Perfection has its price,” she added.
“No matter 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 want to tone it down — or keep the wipes handy. Just in case your glam gets flagged by the glam police.
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