How to look good in your passport photo??

[FearlessSwiftie]

I have always looked awful in my passport photos but due to some unexpected circumstances I need to renew my passport (I lost my old one, lol). So it is a chance for me to be more attentive and to look better in the new passport photo!! Do you know any tips for that? I've read different articles about how you need to have a neutral makeup and put your glasses off but anyway, do you know something which REALLY works?

Going to a photographer.
Most studios take passport pictures, my last one was £10.

I can't use the booth it takes pictures of some alien when I sit in.

Think about colour. I am fair, and can barely been seen against a white background in my latest ones.

If you are like me, don't wear a pale dress and do wear slap- brows, eyelashes and lips at a minimum. Next time I'll be in full on teen style eyebrows, contouring and pout in the hope I can be seen.

And I'll style my hair to show around my face instead of being pulled back.

Go to a photographers instead of a booth and practice a non-bitchy resting face in front of the mirror! You can get away with a very very slight upturn of the lips. Not smiling, but not completely neutral. But you have to be really careful with that one!

Otherwise, eyeliner, brows, not too much blusher but enough for colour and a dab of lip tint to stop the ghost look. Obviously no contouring or eyeliner wings!

lekkerkroketje is right: the slightest smile will do. I also don't look great in my passport/driving license pictures so last lime I had to renew my passport I just used the picture I liked and made the background white in a special program. They accepted it somehow.

I wouldn't stress too much, the new passports have the photos printed directly into the paper, with a massive hologram pattern over it. It's very difficult to make much detail out on mine and it's quite dark. In terms of its purpose, it's probably one of the more minor identifiers embedded into all the other tech and counterfeit stuff on that page.

They accept your own photo uploaded, so you can take it as many times as you like until you're happy anyway.