I need a new passport

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And the big stumbling block with this is getting a new photo. I just hate doing this! I always look absolutely awful. In my first passport (I was 16) I look like Neil from the TV comedy ‘The Young Ones’ (see link below). When the time came to renew that one I waited weeks until one day when I actually thought I didn’t look too bad and I went to get the photo, so those ten years were ok. Nowadays though I just look as if I have disappeared. With pale skin, pale hair, photographed against a light-coloured wall, I am barely visible. On top of that it’s strangely difficult to find a stretch of plain wall with nothing on it or near it and no lights casting shadows anywhere. I’ve already procrastinated for a week and it says they take three weeks to process the application. So now I have put some make-up on so at least I look as if I do have some facial features. Earrings help to delineate the sides of my face too. And I’ve found a patch of pale-coloured (but not white) wall where I think it might be possible to take a photo using natural light so I don’t have to have any interior lights casting shadows. Wish me luck! https://mostquoted.com/neil-young-ones-quotes The picture is completely unconnected, it’s just much nicer to look at! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2024.