How do you live with yourself?

Question

Having just had my passport photo taken I have finally realised just how plain and ordinary I am. This came as a huge shock because the person in that photo was not the person inside my head. No wonder the ladies at the beauty counters in large stores run when I appear! I am completely nondescript, have no 'outstanding' features to highlight and all those beauty magazines do not cater for a lady of my mature years! Not even my best friends would call me pretty on the outside but I do so want to be. Can anyone offer advice please?

Answer 1

Don't worry, passport photos are one of the worse ways to have a photo taken.

Answer 2

Nobody ever looks good on a passport photo, even a supermodel would not look great on one! I suggest you try and pamper yourself in order to boost your self confidence. Get a makeover or go and get your hair done to cheer yourself up.  

Answer 3

Beauty is on the inside.

Or perhaps you're just not that photogenic, and no-one looks good in passport photos- ever! That's probably why you only just "realised".

And anyways, just because you don't like how you look doesn't mean other people agree with you. Be happy with yourself, you seem nice, which is more important.

Answer 4

everyone is beautiful, beauty is more than skin deep, it comes from inside, personality and charisma are much better than looks alone - leave the beauty mags alone, they only make people feel bad about themselves trying to live up to a perfection that doesn't exist - look around you at the ordinary people in life. Think yourself beautiful and you will see yourself as such, tell yourself everyone that you are attractive and you will feel it, and tell yourself you love yourself, and soon you will be walking out the door feeling attractive and loved by yourself - who needs anyone elses opinion. Remember beauty is in the eye of the beholder - someone is beatuiful to you and you will be to others.  

Answer 5

"When you start looking like your passport photo, you know it's time to go home."

It's funny because those pictures pretty much drain us of everything beautiful about us.

Answer 6

Woah....

OK, go get a makeover - go to the hairdresser, tell them to 'create' you - something striking.  

Find out how to wear eye makeup that will most accentuate your eyes (without making you look like a goth hahah).

Buy some feminine clothes and a good push-up bra.

I look goddamm awful in my passport photo too - but come on, you're not allowed to smile and the lightings revolting....

I'm sure you can look at other photos of you where you look lovely - because it's your personality that shines through in your face.

Don't feel down! xx

Answer 7

Don't judge yourself by your appearance but instead by how much you are loved by others.

Answer 8

Don't listen to people who think you have 2 look like the way they want u 2 look like. If you are pretty in the inside than you have nothing 2 worry about.

Answer 9

Because I am special in a nice way and so are you

answer mine: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 10

WASP, you are correct that is why I do not lives with my self @ all ooo

NO I Bought another House and let MY lives there and lived with SELF

I just could not live with MY @ all

So you want to get rid of YOUR & just live with SELF OK?

Do not try to live with YOURSELF, that is very hard. HA HA HA HA A

AA ha ha ha ha   I BET YOU A  LOT OF YOU WILL  NOT GET IT. TOO BAD FOR YOU!  

Answer 11

There is something beautiful about everyone.  Don't forget that.