Do you wear make up when boarding a plane?

You are going to look rubbish no matter what. Do what makes you feel comfortable

I've just done a very long flight and didn't wear a scrap of makeup or my contact lenses.
That allowed me to regularly spritz my face and put eye drops in my eyes and put vaseline on my lips to keep everything moisturised.
On a short flight I might wear a touch of makeup though.

Depends on the flight - a 6am flight, no make up. An 8pm flight home after a last day of the holiday spent sightseeing then yes, as I'd be wearing make up anyway.

I've probably flown a roughly equal amount with and without make up on and have never noticed a difference in my skin. I always moisturise before make up as I have dry skin and I moisturise on make up free days too.

I always think it's very odd when people rock up to the airport at 5am or whatever with a full face of make up

Whereas I think it's very odd that anyone would be looking at other people's faces at the airport and judging them for their harmless personal choices.

I don't care what I look like

Weird that you care so much about what other people look like, then.

There's no reason at all not to wear makeup on a plane, unless you happen to feel more comfortable with a bare face. If you'd wear makeup for a five-hour train journey, you can wear it for a five-hour flight. Your face will be unharmed.

For a five-hour flight, I'd just wear whatever makeup I usually wear. If I was flying long-haul overnight, I might take some wipes and remove my makeup at some point during the flight and then freshen my face up a bit before landing. but that's only to make me feel a bit brighter and more awake.

Absolutely not, I wear fake eyelashes as well which would do my head In on a long flight. Do you makeup on the plane if anything will kill some time as well

I rarely go out the door without makeup on! Not caked in it, but always at least a BB cream, blush and mascara. If I was doing a long flight I'd remove the makeup once settled, slather on moisturiser and enjoy some rest. I'd then apply makeup before landing. But for a short flight I just wear makeup as normal. Last time I had a small facial hydrating spray so used that a couple of times during the flight and it was nice and refreshing so I'd do that again.

Yes, mine looks like a something from a mortician's portfolio.

I was cabin crew for ten years and always make up, still do on flights. Never had an issue with my skin

Not usually but I'm not a huge wearer, I tend to put a bit on before landing. A lot depends on how early you need to head to the airport I find, last time I flew we left at 5.30am

I don't as I have dry skin anyway and flights dry it out even more. So I go bare faced so I can cleanse and reapply a good moisturiser during the flight. I also love a hydrating mist for travelling too.

Nobody but passport control are looking at my face, and I don't think they'd judge me either way.

My passport photo is so bad I don’t think they’d recognise me if I look all fresh and sparkly.

What time is the flight? I always think it's very odd when people rock up to the airport at 5am or whatever with a full face of make up. Like, you could have had some extra time in bed!
But I'm not vain so I don't care what I look like when flying (or at any other time).

Nobody looks their best when they land. Everyone looks a bit disheveled, quite rumpled and generally a bit red and sweaty. Then everyone goes to their hotel, has a shower, puts their new holiday clothes (not their travelling clothes), got into some air con and everyone looks like the sparklier version of themselves.

Yeah, I do sometimes. I've never heard anything about it being a bad idea. On a long flight I might wash my face before sleeping, and sometimes I'll put it back on and sometimes not depending what I'm doing immediately after the flight. Nobody but passport control are looking at my face, and I don't think they'd judge me either way.

There is no harm in wearing makeup on flights however, you could prep your face with moisturiser before the flight and take your makeup in your hand luggage to apply before landing.

Depends. If I’m going to sleep, night flight and bed when I get there then no.
I too indulge in the duty free goodness.

If we will be having lunch or dinner then I do pop some make up on, plus I’m anxious we will miss the flight so although I go to bed I don’t sleep. I have a full on shower, blow dry, straighten or curl, and make up as I am awake for hours prior!

Yes, but only light stuff - eyebrows, concealer, cheek tint.

If it’s a long flight I decant cleanser into a little pot and around a hour before landing I clean my face and reapply makeup. It’s more about feeling fresh and remoisturising. I have little pots with moisturiser, tinted moisturiser, a slice of cheek and lip tint and lip balm. My eyebrow pencil travels in my handbag.

I don't ever wear make up and imagine that wearing it on a plane would be especially uncomfortable.

Why do you need to "look your best" when you get off the plane? No one else will care.

I never wear make up when travelling - by air or rail.

Everyone arrives looking a bit sweaty and odd off a flight

Take deoderant, a nice fresh scented body spray, a hair brush and something like Dr PawPaw gel and use that to give your self a bit of a freshen up in the plane toiletjust before landing or at the airport.

I don't but I don't wear it much anyway except for work or nights out.
I think its ok to though as DD wears it on flights, I have never heard you shouldn't

Where is everywhere? I've never heard that in my life

I don't. Don't give a damn what I look like after a flight, I'll be showering when I get to the hotel anyway so no point.

For 5 hours it’s just like a long bus or train ride so I don’t do anything different. On my annual trip down under it’s 24 hours travelling time so I start with a bare face and loads of moisturiser and then put on make up in final few hours so I arrive feeling a bit more alive.

No it depends. Short flight during the day? Yes.
Flight arriving late at night/middle of night? No.
11-12 hr flight (plus the associated travel to/from airport, connecting flights etc) - no.