Who ARE Those People?
If you ever want to feel really bad about your looks, have your passport photo taken. We learned this lesson yesterday. I thought, hey this is a good day to have my picture taken...my hair looks good, no zits and I'm not retaining water - let's go! So off we go to Tarjay to have our pictures taken. All the pictures hanging up in the photo studio were just beautiful, so we felt good about things. Until the photographer came at us with this archaic looking polaroid camera. We were instructed to come back in 5 minutes to view the results of her handiwork. We should have never come back. Ohmigawd...Tom and I are BEASTS! Have you ever seen Shrek? That's us, except we're not green. Well, I had no color whatsoever. My fair hair and skin blended into the background. My picture has no color at all except for two blue eyes and some pink lips. Tom's isn't the most flattering either. He looks pasty white even though he has a nice tan going, and I think the photographer was trying to get a shot of whatever was up his nose. Not good.
Wait...it gets better once we get home. I am truly devestated by my picture. I have never been the most self-confident, boy-am-I-beautiful kind of person, and I am near tears thinking that I really do look like my picture. My loving husband tries to make it better by saying "you're not that ugly". WHAT? You're not THAT ugly??? Totally NOT what he meant to say, but he said it none-the-less. Stammering and trying to recover from that fatal error, he tells me that I look nothing like that dreadful picture, and that I'm so beautiful, my hair looks really good, etc. Finally, he knows it's a no-win situation, and goes off to the store to buy charcoal for the grill. The smart man that he is, he returned with flowers and a gift! That's my man!
Wait...it gets better once we get home. I am truly devestated by my picture. I have never been the most self-confident, boy-am-I-beautiful kind of person, and I am near tears thinking that I really do look like my picture. My loving husband tries to make it better by saying "you're not that ugly". WHAT? You're not THAT ugly??? Totally NOT what he meant to say, but he said it none-the-less. Stammering and trying to recover from that fatal error, he tells me that I look nothing like that dreadful picture, and that I'm so beautiful, my hair looks really good, etc. Finally, he knows it's a no-win situation, and goes off to the store to buy charcoal for the grill. The smart man that he is, he returned with flowers and a gift! That's my man!
posted by Kim at
12:16 PM
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4 Comments:
Don't despair. Most passport pictures don't look anything like the actual people.
Why don't you try another portrait studio to see if they can use warmer lights around your face to get a better picture.
Rina
I would retake the pictures. I don't want to clog up your comments section, but I'll pasted an interesting article that a bud of my sent me about the matching room. If you believe in the story, one set of pictures is important to the "match team".
Actually, I was rereading the article I posted. I wonder if the "passport photos" they mentioned are those PASSPORT SIZED photos we attached to our application. Not literally the actual photos that go into our US Passports. hmm...
I am getting it retaken. I've also heard that the "passport size" pictures we submit are all that go into the matching room. No one in their right mind would give me a child looking like I did in that picture...frightening!
Kim
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