Wtf is it with passport photos I look like I m on the wanted list

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Just spent half an hour trying to get a good passport photo to upload and every one of them I look like an angry collapsed face criminal
I just wanted a decent photo for once my passport photos always show the worst of me I just can't do straight face photos.. give up I'm pissed off now and will have to upload another shit photo
Anyone else

You and everyone else. Dp looks like a drug dealer, and has been hauled for questions in Bulgaria. I saw it from behind on their computer, and enlarged I could see their point.

My nose disappeared in mine and I look like Lord Voldemort in a wig.

I look like a female serial killer mugshot. I might as well have that height ruler thing behind me.

Oh I look like a serial killer on I
Mine. You can't smile as they reject any photo with a slight smile😂😂

I always hate my passport photos, but the kicker is that every 10 years when I renew, I look at it and think 'fuck me I wish I still looked like that'.

Although hopefully I won't when this latest one is due, as I'm a good bit fatter on it than I am currently.

A relative reckons it's mandatory, so that the officer/machine can recognise you when you turn up looking unutterably crap at the 04.30 check-in for your budget airline flight.

'Angry collapsed face criminal' is epic 🤣

I also look like one of the above in mine,promise!

This makes me very sad that in a year or so I'm going to think that looking like Voldemort was a good thing. I think you're right, though.

I don’t even try to get a decent photo any more. I’ve just accepted that I’m going to look awful regardless of how many attempts I make to get a decent picture!

Not just me then!
PHEW

I look like Myra Hindley's more evil sister. Many years ago the photo booth I used had a problem with the chemicals running, somehow the passport office accepted it so I looked like a jaundiced serial killer for 10 years.

Try being brown and bearded 🤣

Plus once published in the actual passport the picture is even worse than the one you took.

Hahaha I've found my people 🤣 I basically took a load of photos deleted them because of said angry collapsed face criminal look then got dd to take a load which confirmed my demented look and now I can't be arsed to take anymore shit photos and will have to upload and hate another passport photo for the next ten years...I've also come to the conclusion I need Botox and fillers but I'm not brave enough god knows in ten years what the next photo will look like 🤣
Loving some of your descriptions of your photos 🤣🤣

I look like someone might want to recruit me to the Stasi on mine. It's honestly astonishingly bad.

Yes, I can imagine.

And totally, somehow everything gets flattened out, which given it was 2d to start with still astonishes me.

The people at the passport office must have a right laugh looking at all the photos on the production line….or need counselling. Lol

I do mine on my phone, against a white wall with the inbuilt low level beauty filter on 😅🤣

My last photo I had very fair hair and not a lot of make up on so looked like a pair of floating eyes and lips on the white background

This time I decided to restyle my hair and use a bit more make up to define my features - I look like an angry clown who’s been detained at some ‘facility’

I look like a Russian gangster old fat lady with evil eyes

I’d give anything to look like a an angry collapsed face criminal. I look fairly recently embalmed in mine.

I was feeling really good when I got mine taken. I’d lost a lot of weight so I had my jawline back and I’d made sure to wear my hair nice and have good make up on.

I was happy with the photos too.
Until my passport arrived. Newly svelte me had thought the soft cream roll neck jumper looked lovely on. On my passport however, I’m quite clearly wearing a neck brace.

I went to a mua for my passport photos and still look like I'm in the dock for affray...

it's the light and the full frontal

Me as well. The husband laughed out loud when he saw it, before he could stop himself.

I have two completely different shaped eyes in mine. In real life I don’t….

Me too, my resting face minus smile looks absolutely furious, plus it has somehow made me look like what my mum used to call 'driven from home', ie having slept rough for a fortnight.