She did her skincare routine in the middle of the movie — and managed to annoy everyone
A beauty influencer with over two million followers decided to take advantage of the three-hour runtime of the movie 'The Odyssey' to perform a full skincare session. She cleaned her face, applied creams, and put on a collagen mask, all while documenting the process on her phone in a crowded theater. While she viewed it as an efficient way to pass the time, thousands of online users slammed the behavior as a perfect example of a lack of consideration for others.
The woman, an aesthetic nurse and content creator known as np.miranda, posted a TikTok video filmed during a screening of 'The Odyssey'. In the video description, she wrote: "POV: The movie is three hours long." In the footage, she is seen pulling out, one after another, the skincare products she brought into the theater. She started by pulling her hair back with a headband, cleansing her face with micellar water, using a facial spray, and applying neck and eye creams. Then came the climax: she applied a full collagen mask while sitting among the other viewers. To finish, she applied a lip mask, ate a meat snack, and sipped a soft drink.
"Anyone else do skincare and bring snacks to the movies?" she asked her followers. The issue, from the users' perspective, was not necessarily the mask itself, but the way the video was created. Many argued that the prolonged use of a phone and a bright screen inside a dark hall is disruptive to those sitting nearby. Others questioned the need to film a skincare routine in a public place, labeling the behavior as the height of influencer arrogance.
"Just watch the movie," wrote one commenter, while another claimed that if they had been forced to sit next to a lit screen for the entire screening, they would have contacted the cinema staff.
Other comments expressed a growing fatigue with influencer culture and the perceived need to turn every daily activity into content.
However, not everyone saw it as a problem. Some followers argued that the routine looked harmless and that most people in the hall likely didn't even notice. Others were enthusiastic about the idea, calling it an efficient use of a long movie. Miranda herself did not seem bothered by the criticism, simply defining the act in the comments as "multitasking at its best."
