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

It’s because you’re told you’re not allowed to smile in the photo. Trying not to smile apparently sends a signal to my brain to engage killer eyes and death stare. DH & I have a Two Together railcard that should really set off alarms at Network Rail to halt and evacuate all trains immediately. It could only be more sinister if we were wearing matching berets.

I always looked like Myra Hindleys and Rose West's love child.
Now I'm grey haired and pale faced it all blends together and you can only see my dark eyes, I look like a snowman.

Loving these descriptions!
As I mentioned above, my serial killer mugshot, if you google Aileen Wuornos
the mugshot on Wiki that comes up is basically me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos

I've got dead unsmiling eyes and look like I've been doing 20 years hard labour in a gulag.
I thought a b/w photo would be more forgiving. Wrong.

I look like a seriously pissed off Myra Hindley.

I should add that in normal life I look nothing like Myra Hindley ( I hope).

Oh my god 😂🤣😂

Hahahaha. I put a bit of slap on, put my curled hair down (had to take my glasses off and... I look haggard and old and.. awful.
It was in a camera shop and the young man had already retaken it numerous times and didn't understand why I wasn't happy.. so I even paid for the privilege of looking old and haggard.. sigh 😔 😔.

I look as if I am on crack cocaine,absolutely no exaggeration! Was allowed into Australia recently and not bag checked so the passport control people are used to my look!

I look like Gollum in mine.

My DH hums to tune to the original Prisoner Cell Block H each time I get my passport out.

Me and my husband both look like meth addicts in ours (we’re not though, obviously…)

And I was wearing a full face of make up for mine.

Did wonders for my self esteem, it really did…

My photo looks like I’m staring into the back of a spoon. I’d give moon face a run for his money.

It's everyone.
I was looking at some pictures of DS yesterday, lots of lovely snaps of a beautiful angelic little 7 year old, then his passport photo, in which he looks like one of the undead.

My teenage DS looks like has about 500 ASBOs to his name 😂. Thank God he can get a new one in five years instead of ten! I on the other hand look like a human hamster, who's just stuffed her cheeks with a load of tasty grains.....

I've given up trying to look even human in mine. I look like someone took a normal person, let all the air out of their face and then repumped just the nose.

It's awful.

Myra Hindley here 🙋🏼‍♀️

My mother once said that the reason you are supposed to look like crap in your passport photo is because somebody will have to use it to identify your body.

That made me feel soooooo much better about it.

DP, of course, looks like a slightly confused child in his. I blame the lighting, as it reflects off his head and wipes out all of his wrinkles.

I had to use mine for ID when collecting a parcel. The guy looked at it and shied slightly like a startled horse, "Blimey, looks like a prison photo". I mean, cheers, we're not supposed to look like children's TV presenters, are we?

I think I looked even more sullen when he said that, he did look rather scared so I must have been giving him a bit of a death stare.

DS has used the same passport photo for his driving licence, so he looks like a hacked off axe murderer in both.

My passport and my drivers licence are too different women. One is wanted in 32 countries, the other is the hottest woman wanted in 32 countries.

I wish I was the woman in my licence photo but sadly the machine at the e gates recognises me from my passport within moments

I can’t quite describe how the Post Office lady made me look in my last passport photo. It’s disturbing in a way that would scare small children. I’m informed that, in real life, I’m quite attractive - I think they use a special camera.

my DD last had her passport photo taken when she was 9, she looks like an extra from Oliver Twist. Pale, malnourished, it’s quite distressing. Again, taken by the post office lady with her special passport camera.

What is unusual about mine is that I look oddly young and ethereal on one hand, yet somehow totally haggard. It’s definately giving embalmed, if nothing else.

I recently managed to get a slightly less humiliating photo than usual - I wore a tonne of makeup and had it taken in a professional photo shop. The fancy camera makes a difference!

I look as though I have just escaped from a secure facility.

I apparently have a lopsided face. 😩😬