Does anybody look good in their passport photo

[pugchops]

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 surgery

I look good in mine, actually. A little bit like I'd kill someone, but in a sexy way.

Rosa Klebb looks ravishing in comparison to my passport photo. Totally grim.

I look like an upset yak in mine

With my glowering face and white hair I resemble Hindley. Needless to say I'm dying my hair and having it done again!

I look like a convict in mine; a resemblance only accentuated by the fact I'm wearing a grey and black stripy top! Plus I'm a stone heavier in it than I am now.

My first passport photo was in the days before digital photography........ I looked STUNNING! Actually had one passport check at the airport where she said, "that's never you, you look like a model!"

(Total back-handed compliment, but I dug it!)

I lost that 15 passport years ago and I still regret it. In every single passport photo I've had since I look like Shreck the Rapist.

I also look like Myra hindley. Attractive

I too look like I want to stab someone in mine. But not in a sexy way.

My Dad looks like an escaped convict in his gun licence photo, which is exactly the look you want on one of those.

Nope, because despite lashing on loads of make up so I didn't look totally washed out, I have terrible resting bitch face, so any picture where I can't smile is always particularly grim.

Also I'd just had a really awful short haircut before I renewed my passport so even though the hair has thankfully grown out, I have another 8 years of looking at that bloody haircut every time I travel.

I could never the person who checks passports I couldn't contain my laughter i definitely couldnt control the verbal commentary

I have a terrible resting bitch face it's got me into so much trouble my only defence I I can't help it it's just my face

I look like Michael Jackson in my passport photo. Very very pale skin and no nose.

The picture I sent in with my US visa application was so bad that when I went for my interview they let me swap it for one that looked something like a living human being. The original looked like the poorly embalmed corpse of someone who had died of alcohol poisoning. Although it was a colour picture I was entirely grey.

My passport photo (and driving licence photo) are great.... but they cost me £85.

My last passport I looked worse than death. This time I wore make-up and perfected a half smile that means you can't tell I'm smiling but lifts my cheeks enough to get rid of corpse face.
It's the no smiling rule that does it.

I look like a member of the IRA circa 1974 in mine.
DS1’s passport photo is amazing. He looks so good. He’s been asked to model and seeing that it’s obvious why.

My oh and both look like mass murderers, my usually pretty dd looks like a dumpling. My ds looks beautiful and cherubic.
He’s 11 and couldn’t care less.

Oh mine is hideous. HIDEOUS.

I had one when I was 22 and I looked bloody lovely in it. I even thought so at the time. I was gutted when that passport ran out!

At least you can now keep taking pictures at home until you get bored for online renewals. After about 20 40 goes mine looks ok but I'm a smiley person so the no smile rule makes me look totally unnatural.

Just got mine renewed on Wednesday, I had pictures with a Pikachu shirt that I wanted to use, but I was smiling. So I couldn't. The actual photo looks horrible. Although my mother said not as bad as I thought. But of course she would say that wouldn't see. I am visually impaired though and I can't keep my very small eyes open especially during pictures and it took about 20 times and a lot of patience to take the pictures of the passport office. I had a fast track one day passport and I'm glad they were so patient. I thought the machine would never say the picture was OK.

Mine’s fucking fabulous! I looked for a passport sized picture, found one in the drawer that I’d also used for my driving licence. It’s about ten years old I look gorgeous which is unusual because I generally look HIDEOUS in photos. It’s literally the third photo I’ve ever had that’s good, the other two being my own wedding and at a mate’s wedding. I treasure them!

Going through Passport control, the guy just looked at the passport, looked at me, shook his head and waved me on. I was

Remember the saying ''if you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel''

Do you remember that programme 'honey, we're killing the kids'? I look like the adult photo of how the kids end up if you carried on feeding them junk food and they ended up smack heads.

Yes I like mine. It's slightly soft focussed somehow and even my very blonde hair, which is normally completely unphotogenic (photos look like I'm nearly bald) looks good.

DH carries a passport picture of me in his wallet from 1985

Mine is fine, in fact, it's fine to lovely, and it's on my driving licence too!! It was a tesco photo booth machine.

But I practised for DAYS with my phone selfies....making a nice neutral face, no bitch, no potato, no extra chins, no crepey neck, (wear a scarf!), extra charm, wisdom and alertness.
On the day I did my makeup, and hair was nicely done. I normally only slick on a bit of lippy and mascara and rarely do anything hair wise except towel dry and leave

They do say to take in a big bit of card covered in foil to bounce the light about...hold over your lap, out of shot, angled up toward your face, but I have not tried that this time....that was my fall back plan if all the practising and full slap let me down.

I did all that because the one before I did look like the love child of MyraHindly and bloody Gloria Hunniford and a potato. And it's worth it! :o