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Do You Like Your Driver's License Photo?

Plaid Pants2 — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:07:08 GMT

I don't.

It meets all the specs, but to me, I just look ugly in it.

Do you like your driver's license photo?

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qualitygal — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:13:01 GMT

Mine belongs to the FBI it looks like one of the 10 most wanted. ROFLOL

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QVCkitty1 — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:14:32 GMT

I hate mine and I maintain that it looks nothing like me, LOL. Really though it is an awful picture.

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Annabellethecat66 — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:17:50 GMT

It's pretty old. My face looks like a full moon. I'd been shot full of steroids and had the full face one gets when full of steroids.

I seriously doubt if someone could find me by looking at the picture, it's so old. I don't really care at my age. I think I look a lot better now. Funny thing, I've looked the same for a long time. I guess what I'm saying is I grew into my looks. My Dad would take me and my sister to his favorite bar and say, "Who do you think is the youngest (or oldest)." They always thought I was older than she was and she's 15 years older than me. But I've stayed the same. I don't know but maybe that's a good thing, depending on how you look at it!

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AnikaBrodie — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:19:50 GMT

Just got my license application so I hope new photo is better than last one. The people who take these photos are not portrait photographers. They just tell you to sit down, put head up or down, and snap. At least it meets the requirements of an ID photo, but when using it for ID, I've had people ask me "Is that really you?" LOL

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Desertdi — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:26:41 GMT

I look like ET (The Extraterrestrial)

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gmkb — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:28:12 GMT

I am probably one of ten people that like their driver's license photo. Mine turned out well.

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cherry — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:30:03 GMT

I don't like mine either. I have never heard of anyone that did

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grandma2pkmh — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:35:34 GMT

OMG! I look like I have been on a 3 day drinking binge and I have to live with it for at least 3 more years. I wish they could let us know how awful we look before using it & give us a second chance. lol

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Preds — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:40:34 GMT

There is a pic on my License? I thought that was just a weird thing that was on everyones license to warn people to back away. Okay ... it is me.

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momtochloe — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:40:38 GMT

I am average looking at best and incredibly non-photogenic so virtually any photo ID is a disaster . . . I've learned to live with it but goodness some of them frighten me and it is me . . .

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Pook — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:41:08 GMT

The only one I ever liked was stolen with my purse en and that was 2 weeks after getting it. That was before computerization where you can just get a replacement of the same photo so I had to get a new one taken and well it was not so great!! Where I worked we once had a contest to find the worst driver's license photo. We voted and mine won! It looked like a mug shot taken after a fight where my eyes and face were swollen. I had been my 3rd prednisone dose pack for bronchitis/ asthma and I couldn't wait any longer to get my photo.

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occasionalrain — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:45:46 GMT

I'm one of those 10, I like mine a lot. Unfortunately, my license needs renewed this year so that means a new picture and I may not be as pleased with it.

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cotton4me — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:46:23 GMT

I like it better this time. The last one, not so much. I put more effort into this one, getting my hair flat-ironed, etc. In the prior one my rosacea was flaring and my hair was sticking up all over. I looked like a big red beet with crazy hair. It was the worst photo ever and I promised myself that I wouldn't let that happen again.

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Annabellethecat66 — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:47:34 GMT

@Pook You and me with the steroids! That was way back when I actually thought something could be done to ease my back pain. I was shot full of steroids so often.

Recently my daughters gave me a wonderful 70th birthday party. They had tons of pictures and slides of me through the years playing. Everyone thought I'd lost so much weight when actually, my body had gotten rid of the steroids. Some of the pictures showed me at the height of it!

That full moon face is hard to ignore when you know what causes it.!

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abbeythe 8th — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:59:33 GMT

I have not known anyone who liked their driver's license photo. The good news is the photo is small. It is far worse to be stuck with a bad passport photo.

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ECBG — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 20:22:23 GMT

Mine is ok.

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LIndaMJ — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 20:35:11 GMT

No. I look like I'm on a mega dose of something illegal-seriously.

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Irshgrl31201 — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 20:38:51 GMT

I think that most people hate their license photos @Plaid Pants2. I am a fairly photogenic person and my license photos have always been pretty bad until the last one.

I went to get a new one a while ago and noticed they do allow you to retake it a couple of times. I was ok with the first one but I did my makeup differently than I would normally do because the light is just so unflattering.

I've worked as makeup artist for photo shoots but this is completely different with the harsh lighting there. You are best to lay off luminizers or heavy highlighters. The harsh lighting can also make you look pale no matter the skin tone so a good matte bronzer on all the higher areas where the sun would naturally hit is the best way to go. I don't wear any shimmery eyeshadows either there. I think wearing a natural bone colored matte eyeshadow on the lid with an eyeliner and mascara works best. I didn't do any crazy contouring on my eyes or face. I really think less is more with these types of photos.

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DiAnne — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 20:39:30 GMT

Are you kidding?