My driver’s license photo looks worse than I do. I should have gone in for a new photo when I had to renew but it would have meant waiting in line at the DOL so I did it online. Next time I will bite the bullet and go in.
This is a such a funny thread! Both my driver’s license, passport, and work ID look fine now I guess.
However, 18 + years ago, I had to renew my driver’s license about a week after my daughter was born. I complained to my husband all the years I had that photo before I had to renew it again because in my postpartum haze I didn’t realize that I had the baby burp up towel on my shoulder and noone bothered to tell me. I also looked so bloated, well, ugh! I hated that photo, though I can laugh about it now.
My DL pic makes me look terribly gaunt and sickly. My passport pic was taken before I lost so much weight. I am not fond of either photo. My DL pic from my early 20s was amazing. Was really bummed when I had to turn it in to get a PA DL.
D didn’t want to renew her DL, tho it was time because she liked her photo. She ended up renewing anyway and looks fine (and like herself) in the new photo.
Lol at @FallGirl’s post. I feel the same way!
I renewed my DL when I was going through chemo for breast cancer and had lost all my hair. I’m wearing a red wig in the photo. I’m a natural blonde (ok…maybe with a little help these days ;).
It’s amazing how much difference the hair style and color make. Everyone who looks at my DL does a double take.
I get a few double takes when I have to show my current driver’s license photo because in it I’m totally bald. When I had to renew it I was just finishing chemotherapy and I’d lost every hair so I was wearing a fleece hat everywhere. I hit a local AAA center which did simple license renewals and the woman behind the counter, unaware of my situation, told me when I asked that I couldn’t keep the hat on. They did the pictures at a counter in front of all the people waiting and I had wanted to avoid making people uncomfortable. You should have seen the woman’s face when I whipped my hat off to reveal my shiny noggin. She turned red and sputtered, “Let me get my supervisor! I’m sure it will be okay to keep the hat!” I smiled and assured her I would be fine with a hatless picture. I now have great affection for that photo because it’s one of the few I have from that time and it reminds me of all the kindnesses people did me when I was sick.
My passport photo is smoking. 
My DL photo (from last year, so 5 more years with this one. . .) looks like a psychopath’s mugshot.
I hope I look better than that, but some mornings what I see in the mirror looks a lot like the photo. Scary!
CO has 10 year renewal for drivers under 50, and there is an online option on alternate renewals. A few months ago I was sad to give up my exellent 20 year old photo. (The day it was taken, the first attempt was so awful that the DMV photographer said, “you want me to try again, right?”. But the next one was lovely. It did had permed bangs… but that is still my preferred style).
I’m not photogenic as my sister so I hate to have my pictures taken. But lately I hang on to any old picture of passport or drivers license because it reminds me what I used to look. Much better than real life.
Here’s what I say when not pleased with a photo of myself, “Hey, in 10 or 20 years I’ll look back and think that I looked pretty darned good.”
That’s why my DH is intentionally scowling on his driver’s license–the same expression the cop will see!
My drivers license looks way better than I actually look. Quite often, people (men) checking it will mention I looked blonder and younger then. Well duh! My company ID looks soooo awful, I took the picture after I worked all night and felt just terrible. Every time I check in for a trip, my picture comes on the screen, so my copilot has to look at it and think, yuck, I have to fly with that miserable looking woman? And I can’t pretend I lost my ID to get another, because the picture is on file!!
You are waaay too hard on yourself. Sounds too much like:
Ha! But she is now kicking his butt in New Hampshire polls, and that commercial she did about that comment was excellent. There is no photo that I have seen of her that looks half as bad as my ID photo. However, in my defense, I’ll bet she doesn’t have to work all night and then take photos. Plus, she probably wears makeup that can cover fatigue. My ID photo is really awful. I can console myself that at least we take it every year.
Keeping up with the potty joke in other thread, as long as I don’t look like I’m on the potty(having trouble) then my picture should be ok. I shouldn’t be so hard on myself. Btw, does anybody smile when they sit on the potty? I know I don’t.
I guess I missed the potty joke. I was in Sorrento, Italy for a week, and then had family visiting for a week, so I’m out of touch here. And completely grouchy to be home.
I probably smile on the potty when I’m reading ridiculous things on cc 