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

Is £17.99 the going rate in London? I paid about £7.99 to have mine done at Max Speilman, just so I could get another set done for free if they didn't pass muster.

To be fair, they are absolutely shocking photos and I look dreadful. My boss countersigned them, and he said oh dear "ISpent.. " When the passport came back the didn't look too bad, perhaps they run them through photoshop! xxx

I can thank my most recent passport photo for pointing out to me that the decade between mid-thirties and mid- forties had morphed me from bright eyed and adequately groomed into Norma Batty's scowling, bag-snatcher gran. I actually recoil a bit when I catch sight of the photo (did someone sneakily spray my head with sugar water and carry out a vicious back comb? Because I've never actually seen my hair - or anyone's hair for that matter - sport that style voluntarily). Dc helpfully comment on what a good likeness it is.

Omg Delta that's hilarious

God, this thread is cracking me up!

And it made me remember an article in the news about a chap who'd complained to HM Passport office after they issued this of him

I had mine an Dd's done in a booth in Tesco last month. Both of us look hideous.
Dh says we should take passport pictures first thing in the morning, when the light hurts our eyes, our hair is standing on end and we look bad. thats what we look like after a long haul flights. Trouble is that is what my new passport looks like

dh doesn't have a nose on his passort photo. how they accepted that I will never know

I’m 41yo and my new passport which I had done last year has me as a 22yo. I totally missed the bit that said recent photo and thought I’d save myself £5 and use an old spare photo. I look fucking amazing in my passport —and nothing like me—. 😁

I've had the opposite. I was once about to board a plane in the US and the security person checking passports said: "You look so much better in your pictuuuuuure". Christ I must have looked rough. That's before I'd even boarded the sodding plane and gone through 10 hours of flying, connections etc.

Thanks love!

AlexanderHamilton appearance similar but old passport expired about 10 yrs ago. will i get away with it do you think (if I do it by post)

laughing at all of these. Do you think there's someone specially employed that messes about with passport photos to make them this bad , I think there is and that in real life Vogue would give their right arm to have us on their cover.

Myra Hindley

I take such a bad photo I refused to have a photographer on my wedding day. Probably a good job - we only lasted about eighteen months...

I had my photo taken today on a horse. He is such a handsome chap and when his mum is on him they look amazingly photogenic. Not with me on top he doesn't. Guess who had the bigger nose?

What happens between the mirror and the fucking camera???

I look like a cheery Myra Hindley in my passport photo for one of my passports. Turns out that bleached hair and red lipstick doesn't translate well into a black and white photo.

At the risk of outing myself as I’ve told this to everyone in the world but DP went to get his passport photos done on the digital upload and they were rejected as his bald head was too shiny Me and Ds are still laughing about it weeks later
When I was a kid my dad looked just like Gerry Adams on his, which is ideal when you’re trying to cross borders in the eighties

The worst photo I have ever seen of me is the staff photo I had to have taken by one of the school photographers who come round once a year. I'd forgotten it was the day for them so I hadn't done my hair, so it's a birds nest, I used the dregs of makeup I had at the bottom of my bag so definitely the wrong foundation shade, and I am shiny and dishevelled with no discernible eyebrows or lashes. Needless to say it looks horrific.

It's on display on the staff photo board in main reception for every visitor to the school to see.

He looks like a criminal potato.

Genius

Basseting here are the rules about passport photos - you need two identical new photos, even if your appearance has not changed. “New” means taken within the last month.

This has sort of happened to all the people I was at school with and am now friends with on Facebook but haven't seen in a long time. Whilst I still look 18, someone has replaced all their photos with pictures middle aged people. I just don't get it!!

Surprisingly enough the best passport photos i’ve ever taken have come from the photo booths you get in shopping centres. I look like i’ve come fresh from modelling a cover for vogue which is very pleasing considering that I normally look like a soviet factory worker. It’s all about the lighting. Strong diffused lighting makes everyone look better.

Tangoooooooooo

photographer made me push my fringe to one side as it was too long

Lucky yours was just pushed to the side! They pinned mine back, not even with a bit of a quiff! Fully slicked, flat as a bloody pancake , pinned back , which is why I guess (what with the naff lighting etc) I look like this

I always have one eye much bigger than the other in passport photos. Not in other photos, just passport ones.

Fuck knows why.