passport..passout

why is it that passport photos are always ug? why oh why is this so? I had decided that since i needed to renew my passport I was not going to be having an ugly photo for the next ten years...no way. I had a plan!

Plan 1 - the plan started with a trip to the hairdresser on Saturday. My hairdresser was going to make me glam - fix up the regrowth, do a nice blowdry etc etc. My hairdresser did an excellent. I was glam when she finished. Then I went to have the photos taken...and guess what? Both places at the shopping centre who did passport photos couldn't do them - broken machines - APPARENTLY. I even waited in one shop and said to the junior sales person "look I know you have a big sign on the counter that says you are not doing passport photos - but is that true?" Of course it was. So there was my first plan gone.

Plan 2 - ok no drama's I thought - I'll just go and get them done on Sunday. I'll be able to jazz the hair up. Jazz the hair up I did - it didn't look quite as good as Saturday - but hey. SO I have the photo taken (you know you are not allowed to smile anymore - my last passport photo you were allowed to smile) I say to him " Can I have a look?" - he begrudgingly shows me. I say "I'm not really happy with that" "He says oh well most passport photos are train crashes anyway" For this I paid 15 dollars...I am cranky - but also too stingy to have another one done. GRRRR. I also have a sneaking suspicion that it is too close and will be sent back from the passport office. I hate it - and can't believe I am actually putting it up for viewing. ARRGHH