A funny little rumour has been circling recently, that has revealed an interesting tradition bubbling for a while in the Middle East, more specifically the UAE. The thing is, it is not a rumour, lavish suhoor parties have become a common occurrence during Ramadan. Some time during the night,  Muslim women across the UAE get dressed up, don their most sparkly and lavish abayas, dress to the nines in jewellery, heels and makeup, and celebrate in an expensive looking tent. Heres the hilarious part, many Muslims in the west were completely oblivious to this practice and only found out about the luxurious parties due to the now infamous MAC advertisement that went viral promoting makeup for Suhoor. Ever since Tweets emerged from different Twitter users verifying this newly revealed information.

The internet exploded around Suhur time and the Tweets were pretty hilarious:

Dying. I’d be lucky to manage to drink water in time – let alone fully contour my face. https://t.co/MGBxVIqns6

— Bushra (@13thcatsmeow) May 25, 2018

hi can y’all stop commercializing ramadan do you even know what suhoor is thanks pic.twitter.com/0y10soFvNK

— مريم (@MaryamSaleh) May 25, 2018

Wait you mean you don’t look like this waking up at 3:30am to eat frantically?

— Rowaida Abdelaziz (@Rowaida_Abdel) May 25, 2018

No thank you MAC, I’ll stick with my natural traumatized fox look during suhoor. pic.twitter.com/kwNsQAWuXL

— عائشة (@aishathepoet) May 26, 2018

First off, I look like I was mugged at suhur time. Who gets glammed up for suhur!??? pic.twitter.com/mQKFoeqE3v

— Asha Noor (@AshaMNoor) May 25, 2018

im not a muslim girl but i'm 99% sure the last thing on a muslim girl's mind waking up at 4:30am to quickly eat and pray is to look good while doing so ???? https://t.co/tRiv6f08lG

— subhi taha (@subhitaha_) May 26, 2018

lmao this is why that weird backlash on that mac suhur glam look is so weird to anyone who’ve experienced Ramadan in MENA https://t.co/oghcZT6kGP

— 7th century fiqh manual (@spicy_fatwa) May 26, 2018

To all my Western Muslim friends, who are sharing MAC's ad in disbelief MAC could mix up suhur with iftar: MAC didn't get it wrong. In many a Muslim majority country, in & out of the Arab world, suhur is indeed a social occasion, beginning around midnight & lasting till the dawn.

— Dr. H.A. Hellyer د.إتش ???????? (@hahellyer) May 26, 2018

Clearly MAC cosmetics doesn’t realize what time suhur is ???????????? These big companies are too lazy to consult with Muslim women but still try to gain there $$$ @MACcosmetics pic.twitter.com/lNkdZyM4Zz

— Daniela (@danielambiah) May 26, 2018

Lmaoooo am I the only one who is here for this https://t.co/51TRu9yyhU

— Ruqaiya (@ruqaiya_h) May 26, 2018

British Muslims are pretty simple & humble people compared to the decadence of many Muslim majority countries and culture of elitism

— Ruqaiya (@ruqaiya_h) May 26, 2018

OK clearly they do things differently in the East if this is a thing compared to us Zombies in the West https://t.co/UMf2dEXNzO

— Yasmina (@animsche) May 26, 2018

low key ima recreate that mac suhur glam up for my eid look

— 7th century fiqh manual (@spicy_fatwa) May 26, 2018

Oh is this what an hour taraweeh, five hour sahoor is like pic.twitter.com/o5YSh2dPUc

— Aisha S Gani (@aishagani) May 24, 2018

idc mad extravagant suhoor parties in ramadan whilst ppl r suffering across the world is just too mad arabs r ac mad

— ☔️ (@brownaandlovely) May 26, 2018

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