I just paid £17 to have my passport photo taken and it is NOT MY FACE

When I started my current job, two photos were taken. One was taken by a professional photographer with proper studio lighting and a nice blue background. I look stunning in it. The other was taken by the receptionist with a dodgy webcam. In that one, I look like a supercilious Victorian school mistress who's about to foist a dunce's cap on you.

Guess which one is on my work pass, and also pinned to the wall in the staff room?

Mine is hideous too. I normally have a fringe but not allowed to for passport so just look really wierd with a long horse face. Nearly puts me off travelling but not quite....

I have two work visas in my passport, the first one I am really happy with (rare occurance) my hair looks quite nice, my eyebrows are good and my ‘resting bi* face’ isn’t too gloomy.

The second however is awful, messy (I thought stylish...I was wrong) hair, no make up, bags under eyes, RBF in full force and fatter, it genuinely looks like the opening to one of those awesome crappy American documentaries titled ‘Women Who Kill!’

This thread is hilarious

The light on mine seems to be very bright so I somehow look bald but with a bowl cut at the same time. There is an unfortunate shadow over my upper lip so I look like a less attractive adolf hitler.

I had my passport picture taken the other day. She showed me the screen and asked if it was alright. I said “ well it looks like me so I suppose it will do. Unfortunately” I don’t think she knew what to do with the unfortunately part

Meant to say I've loved this thread haven't laughed so much in ages!

So glad to have gotten a new passport photo this year as DH and DCs claim I look like Myra Hindley in my old one! Even passport control looked at it for ages last year then at me then back again until I said yes unfortunately that is me thank god I've grown my hair! - the woman even said it doesn't really look like you.Not sure the new one is much better but at least I don't look like a criminal

My granny slipped off the stool when she went to press the photo booth button. She looks like an alarmed Myra Hindley with a squashed head.

Think yourself lucky OP I look like my mother in my photo and she's been dead 9 years!

Oh I really needed this thread today. My ds has a slightly away the fairy’s look most of the time. And in photos he kinda looks a bit distant and generally there’s teeth and hair everywhere. Except in his passport. The photo was taken when he was 6, could easily be a 15 year old. He manages to look like the only photo they can find of the murdered before he got a swastica tattooed on his face, from his young offenders ID. You definitely wouldn’t leave that boy alone in your house. his granny who wouldn’t admit he looked at little battered after birth (bilateral haematoma, 2 black eyes and a cut the length of his forehead). When she saw the passport she said well there’s a boy that would rob you of the fillings in your teeth.

Bobbi73 - is that 10 tears as I’m crying (not many!) or dis you have horrific birth experiences?

I look like I’m running with a Columbia’s drug cartel, and not very happy about it. So awful traveling on it.

Many years ago , when photo booths were put your money in and take your chances , I had bleached blonde hair, I chose the white background and the pics that came out looked like someone had substituted me for Humpty Dumpty. You can see I have hair if you look carefully but a quick glance and there's Humpty.

I'm the least photogenic person I know and look shite in all photos. However, the passport before my current new one, I looked bloody gorgeous ( my mum, who kept none of my school photos, has that one up in her mantlepiece, literally the only photo she has of me) 10 tears and two children later, I look like a troll. Really, an actual troll. I only hope I don't look like that in real life or I will never have sex again!

My work pass for swiping in/out has to be worn at all times so hangs from my U2 Joshua Tree lanyard around my neck all day.
Fair enough, but the bast*rd in Facilities at work who took my photo printed off and made my pass with a photo with my EYES FUCKIN CLOSED and wouldn't do me a new one. Also for some reason I have a dark shadow in the photo under my chin to my bottom of my neck, it looks like I'm wearing Osama Bin Ladens beard.

Dh just had his done. My teacher friend signed them and called up to ask if it was really him because he looked about 90.

My previous photo was black and white.

With make-up, there was little to distinguish my face from the background.

All you could see of my nose were two black circles where my nostrils were.

I went to the hairdresser and paid for a make-up session.

I look like a fat, suburban housewife, who was caught drink-driving after a little too much wine at the pub lunch she treated herself to. From the 90s.

I look like Rose West in my passport photo. It's an uncanny resemblance...

I look like a character on prisoner cell block H on my driving license. Needless to say when I came to renew my passport photo I got fresh shots. So I look like Adolpha Hitler instead.

I look like I’ve just been wheeled out of a morgue in my passport photo.

I thought I looked OK - wore a bit of make up, had the pic done after spending the morning having my roots sorted at the hairdressers (regular appointment, I killed 2 birds with one stone while I was in town. I’m not that vain) and I still looked fucking awful

I think our local place has a dead person filter fitted to his camera - DD1’s is as bad. She’s going in a school trip next month and is having a kittens that one of her friends might see it

I look like a demented hybrid of Myra Hindley and Barney Greenway from Napalm Death in mine, you have my sympathies.

Mine looks like a nervous ghost. Nobody comes out well in those small photos.

My photo for my passport is the same. I look horrendous and am stuck with it for 10 whole years . The worse thing is the passport office thought I looked enough like my old passport picture that they accepted it
I console myself with the thought that the next 1 surely won't be worse and I might end up with a better looking 10 year older photo

Just renewed NZ passports for me and family, spent $60 for three photos and my DS looked passable, DH not great but recognisable and I looked like I had a VERY round face and no neck. Went online and discovered passport service here allows you to upload digital photos and can do a free check first that they are suitable so substitued one that actually looks like me. Waste of $ on the originals but we know for next time.