Modern technologies and makeup do not go together...

A woman was reportedly forced to remove her make-up at a Chinese airport after facial recognition devices failed to identify her. A short clip showing a young woman wiping make-up off her face with wet wipes while being counted by airport staff went viral on Chinese social media in mid-May and sparked a wave of humorous comments.

According to the information that can be read from the ticket attached to her personal document, the video was recorded in September last year at the airport in Shanghai, but it only recently attracted wider attention. In the short clip, the woman holding the camera (presumably an airport employee) berates the young girl, ordering her to remove all her makeup until she looks like her ID photo. “Erase everything until it looks like a passport. Why did you put on that make-up in the first place? It's your own fault,' says a voice from the background. It's unclear whether the woman managed to pass the facial recognition device, but her ordeal inspired a number of humorous responses on social media.

Some expressed sympathy for the girl, saying that she had already had enough embarrassed and that there was no need for the employee to additionally count her because of the make-up. Still others questioned whether makeup should even pose a problem for modern facial recognition devices. "No matter how thick the layer of makeup, the face should not be unrecognizable, right?" read one of the opinions.

We reported a while back a similar story when several Chinese women were barred from entering the country after returning from South Korea, where they had undergone facial plastic surgery that made them look so altered that they were no longer recognized by facial recognition systems.

Source: Oddity Central

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