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Does anybody look good in their passport photo

91 replies

pugchops · 19/10/2018 19:28

I had to renew my passport, so I trotted off to the photo booth, I was feeling quite good about myself, I had taken care with my make up and my hair was behaving itself.

I look like I should be on a crimwatch line up!

I mean, I looked like a gargoyle , I had huge eye bags, and I certainly didn't have them when I looked in the mirror.

How has this happened? I now feel utterly miserable and now considering plastic surgeryBlush

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LastOneDancing · 19/10/2018 19:31

No, I look like Myra Hyndley and DH looks like Ted Bundy on ours.

Our children look like cabbage patch kids.

If you looked normal on your passport photos, you'd be stopped at the border.

Sparklingbrook · 19/10/2018 19:32

I did my hair and make up and thought I looked really nice. The picture that came out I must have thought was fine.

But when the passport arrived I looked about 105. Sad

I haven't travelled with it yet but am hoping to get stopped for looking so unlike the pic.

DontGoIntoTheLongGrass · 19/10/2018 19:35

I look like a drug cartel matriarch 😅

I blame DH though! He was bored and kicked and nudged me under the curtain of the photo booth again and again trying to make me laugh. I took a third attempt at the photo and then showed him how bad it was. The fucker then pressed accept really quickly!! Bastard, it was the worse photo so far.

gamerchick · 19/10/2018 19:39

When I got mine taken the husband involuntary laughed before he composed himself. I look like a convict.

I gave one to my boss for our name badges and she came back and took one of her own Grin

I think whoever designed those booths knew what they were doing.

peachesmakebeaches · 19/10/2018 19:47

Oh no, you'd mistake my passport for the identity card of a Russian political prisoner.

My dear FIL's is the worst and he's really a handsome man. The passport officer laugher the last time he went through customs Grin

Unevenbeard · 19/10/2018 19:50

No, I look like a potato 🥔

Watto1 · 19/10/2018 19:50

I look like my dad in mine. I look nothing like him in real life. Dad is very handsome for an 85 year old but I really don't want to look like him!

KurriKurri · 19/10/2018 19:51

No - in my passport photo I look minutes away from death, and on my Visa photo I look like a drunken aunt at a wedding who's tried to cut her own hair.

WhoGivesADamnForAFlakeyBandit · 19/10/2018 19:51

I have a large mole on my left check - as some very clever wanker had put a tiny, invisible dot on the screen, just in the right place. I admired their ingenuity but still Hmm

DD took the instruction not to smile way too literally. She looks like someone's ripped the cat open in front of her.

Starwednesday · 19/10/2018 19:53

I actually look really good in mine, i look young and pretty (I’m 40 and the passport is 3 years old) it’s my best photo, yet selfies/any other photos of me are horrendous, I look old, tired and ugly 🙄

DolceFarNiente · 19/10/2018 19:54

I look fine in my passport pic but it's my gym pic that I look absolutely hideous in! They always seem to snap you at your worst; no makeup on, hair scraped back, wearing scabby gym gear, and they use a webcam, a webcam I tell you!

TemptressofWaikiki · 19/10/2018 19:54

I look like a member of the Bader Meinhof gang on my passport photo....

Pebblespony · 19/10/2018 19:55

If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel.

oldsewandsew · 19/10/2018 19:56

I really like mine! I was having a good hair day, and the photo booth seemed to apply make up to me 😂 I’m due for a renewal and don’t think I’ll get lucky this time.

AlpacaPicnic · 19/10/2018 19:58

I had a great one years ago, but now with the no smiling rule I look like a pasty moon faced criminal.

atsasnuffothat · 19/10/2018 20:00

Hi, Wendolene Woolshop here

redexpat · 19/10/2018 20:01

Mine was good when you were allowed to smile. Now I look like a criminal.

ChishandFips33 · 19/10/2018 20:02

Lordy no! ...and it's been used on my driving licence too

UpstartCrow · 19/10/2018 20:03

I looked like a praying mantis on my last bus pass, and on a school trip our RE teacher looked exactly like the bug alien out of Men In Black.

walkingtheplank · 19/10/2018 20:06

I look nice in mine. I'd just had a make up lesson so looked good - so took the opportunity to get my photo done on the way home.

leafgrass · 19/10/2018 20:06

No. I look horrible. Eye bags, no definition to face. I think it's the new digital booths. Lighting is all wrong. The old chemical photographic process booths were much better. I hate also that I can't wear my glasses. Very fortunate I didn't go cross eyed as I can do when can't focus properly on where I'm supposed to be looking. Hmmmph.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 19/10/2018 20:09

"I look like a potato."

I'm not as good looking as oneHaloween SadHalloween Grin

TroysMammy · 19/10/2018 20:09

A passport officer looked at my passport photo, looked at me and shook his head. Cheers mate!

LightDrizzle · 19/10/2018 20:11

Another member of the Bader Meinhof here [waves to Temptress].
My husband looks like a pock-marked Colombian drug lord from Central Casting. I’m beginning to wonder whether his is actually realistic and I’m blinded by love though, as he is always searched at airports, even when he doesn’t beep. His bags are often searched too Confused

Spankyoumuchly · 19/10/2018 20:12

I look like a very angry woman who will throat punch you if you get in her way.